Phenological growth and development of Rabi maize (Zea mays L.) under various moisture regimes

A field experiment was carried out at Agronomy Research Farm, Narendra Deva University of Agriculture & Technology, Narendra Nagar (Kumarganj), Faizabad (U.P.) during Rabi season of 2016-17 to study the “Phenological growth and development of Rabi maize (Zea mays L.) under various moisture regimes.” The experiment comprised of nine treatment combinations and conducted in Split plot design and replicated four time. Experiment consisted of three crop growing environment viz. 60x 20 cm spacing, 60 x 25 cm and 60 x 30 cm spacing were kept in main plots with three moisture regimes Viz. 0.6 IW/CPE ratio, 0.9 IW/CPE ratio and 1.2 IW/CPE ratio were kept in sub plot. Result reveal that crop growing environment, sowing done at 60x20 cm spacing recorded higher days taken from sowing to maturity while among moisture regime 1.2 IW/CPE ratio recorded higher days taken from sowing to maturity. Moisture regimes of 1.2 IW/CPE ratio was found suitable for higher growth and development of Rabi maize.