Performance of wheat varieties at different levels of irrigation

Abstract

An experiment on Performance of wheat varieties to different levels of irrigation was conducted at School of Agriculture, ITM University, Gwalior, M.P. during the winter season of 2015-16. The experiment comprised of three irrigation levels as main treatments and five varieties as sub treatments in split plot design with three replications. The yield improved with irrigation in all the varieties. The increase in frequency of irrigation increased the grain yield. Under no irrigation, variety, Lok-1 gave significantly higher grain yield as compared to other varieties. Under two irrigations, variety GW-366 produced significantly higher grain yield over other varieties - RVW-4106, MP-4010 and Lok-1 and statistically at par with variety MP1203. In treatment where four Irrigations were applied at critical stages (i.e. 20, 40, 60 & 80 DAS) highest grain yield was noted in variety GW-366 which was closely followed by MP-1203 and both these varieties were significantly superior over rest of three varieties at this level of irrigation.