~ 1133 ~    Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 2017; 6(6): 1133-1135 E-ISSN: 2278-4136 P-ISSN: 2349-8234 JPP 2017; 6(6): 1133-1135 Received: 29-09-2017 Accepted: 30-10-2017 Ravendra Singh Deptt. of Soil Conservation and Water Management, CSA Uni. Agri. & Tech, Kanpur, Janta Mahavidiyalaya Ajitmal, Auraiya (U.P.), India Rajeev Kumar Deptt. of Soil Conservation and Water Management, CSA Uni. Agri. & Tech, Kanpur, Janta Mahavidiyalaya Ajitmal, Auraiya (U.P.), India Anil Kumar Deptt. of Soil Conservation and Water Management, CSA Uni. Agri. & Tech, Kanpur, Janta Mahavidiyalaya Ajitmal, Auraiya (U.P.), India. Sanjiv Kumar Deptt. of Soil Conservation and Water Management, CSA Uni. Agri. & Tech, Kanpur, Janta Mahavidiyalaya Ajitmal, Auraiya (U.P.), India Jitendra Kumar Deptt. of Soil Conservation and Water Management, CSA Uni. Agri. & Tech, Kanpur, Janta Mahavidiyalaya Ajitmal, Auraiya (U.P.), India Luv Kush Pal Deptt. of Soil Conservation and Water Management, CSA Uni. Agri. & Tech, Kanpur, Janta Mahavidiyalaya Ajitmal, Auraiya (U.P.), India Manoj Kumar Prajapati Deptt. of Soil Conservation and Water Management, CSA Uni. Agri. & Tech, Kanpur, Janta Mahavidiyalaya Ajitmal, Auraiya (U.P.), India Pradeep Kumar Deptt. of Soil Conservation and Water Management, CSA Uni. Agri. & Tech, Kanpur, Janta Mahavidiyalaya Ajitmal, Auraiya (U.P.), India Yogesh Sahu Deptt. of Soil Conservation and Water Management, CSA Uni. Agri. & Tech, Kanpur, Janta Mahavidiyalaya Ajitmal, Auraiya (U.P.), India Correspondence Rajeev Kumar Deptt. of Soil Conservation and Water Management, CSA Uni. Agri. & Tech, Kanpur, Janta Mahavidiyalaya Ajitmal, Auraiya (U.P.), India Effect of weed management on growth, yield and yield attributes of Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaueum L.) var. “Manupur” under rainfed condition Ravendra Singh, Rajeev Kumar, Anil Kumar, Sanjiv Kumar, Jitendra Kumar, Luv Kush Pal, Manoj Kumar Prajapati, Pradeep Kumar and Yogesh Sahu Abstract A field experiment was conducted at the student instructional farm of Department of Soil conservation and water management, C.S. Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur (U.P.)-India during 2014. To evaluate the effect of weed management on growth, yield and yield attributes of pearl millet under rain fed condition. A significant enhancement were recorded in treatment T8 in relations to Plant stand, plant height, number of tillers, number of leaves, number of ear bearing tillers, days to 50 % flowering days and maturity, length of ear, girth of ear, weight of ear, grain weight per ear, test weight, biological yield and harvest index. The maximum grain yield was reported in treatment T8 (188.9). However, the lowest grain production was reported in treatment T0 (11.6) followed by T1. Keywords: Weed, growth, rainfed, pearl millet Introduction About 40% of the land in the world is under arid and semi-arid climatic conditions (Gamo, 1999) [3] . Efficient use of rainwater and optimization of crop water productivity (WP) are important in such conditions. An FAO analysis (FAO, 2003) of 93 developing countries expects increase of agricultural production over the period 1998–2030 by 49% in rain fed and by 81% in irrigated regions. Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.), the world’s hardiest warm season cereal crop (Reddy et al., 2013) [10] . Globally it ranks sixth after rice, wheat, maize, barley and sorghum in terms of area (Khairwal et al., 2007) and share 42% of total world production (Ramesh et al., 2006) [11] . Pearl millet is an indispensable arid and semi arid crop of India (Ramesh et al., 2006) [11] cultivated as dual purpose (food and feed) crop in over 8.3 m ha ranking fourth among total cereals (Yadav et al., 2011) [15] . The recent spurt in prices of wheat, rice and maize and growing demand for non-food uses (cattle and poultry feed, alcohol and starch industries) pearl millet become cheaper alternative sources (Reddy et al., 2013) [10] . Further, the nutritional value of these crops offers much scope to development of value added products in new health conscious consumer segments (Yadav et al., 2011) [15] as it contains more fibre and is good for diabetic and heart patients. Pearl millet is the richest sources of nutrition, especially iron, calcium and zinc among cereals and hence can provide all the nutrients at the least cost compared to wheat and rice (Parthasarathy et al., 2006) [8] . The productivity of the crop is very low (25-26 q ha -1 ) due to imbalances application of fertilizers, disease insect-pest, weed infestation and uncertain and erratic distribution of rainfall. Pearl millet is efficient in its utilization of moisture and has a higher level to that than jowar and maize. Water stress decreased water potential, transpiration efficiency, rate of stomatal conductance, photosynthesis efficiency of flag leaves. Pearl millet is sown at onset of rains and therefore, it is heartily infested with Sorghum helipence, Cyprus rotundus, Digera arvensis, Phyllanthus niruni, Solanum nigrum, amrantus viridis, Euporbia hirta and Cynoden dectylon weed. Application of atrazine @ 0.50 kg ha -1 and hand weeding are more effective than the application of Atrazine @0.25 and hand weeding under rainfed condition. (Kumar et al., 1993, Pal and Farodo 1999) [4, 7] . Keeping in this view an experiment was conducted to assess the effect of weed management on growth, yield and yield attributes of Pearl millet (Penisetum glaucum L.) under rainfed condition. Methods and Material A field experiment was conducted at the student instructional farm of Department of