YIELD AND ECONOMICS OF WHEAT AS INFLUENCED BY SYSTEM OF WHEAT INTENSIFICATION

A field experiment was conducted during rabi season of 2012-13 at the farm of Wheat Research Unit, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola (M.S.), India. The treatments consisted of seed treatment with organic (T 1 : Treated seed, with T 2 : non-treated wheat seed) and 4 combinations of row spacings S 1 : Conventional line sowing (18.5 cm), S 2 : (10 × 10 cm), S 3 : (15 × 15 cm) and S 4 : (20 × 20 cm). The experiment was laid out in a factorial randomized blocked design with three replications. The soil was clayey with pH 8.01, containing N, P and K 206.00, 15.86 and 303.43 kg ha -1 , respectively. Grain and straw yield of wheat was significantly influenced by varying treatments of seed treatment and spacing. Therefore, economics of wheat crop was found highest in treatment in T 1 and S 3 . While non-significant difference is observed with interactions.