COMPARISON OF WIDER ROW SPACING WITH NORMAL ROW SPACING IN FIVE WHEAT CULTIVARS

Iqtidar Hussain; Asghar Ali Khan; Sami Ullah Malik

Iqtidar Hussain Department of Agronomy, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan
Asghar Ali Khan Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan
Sami Ullah Malik Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan

Keywords: Row Spacing, Wheat varieties

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to compare the effect of wider row spacing (45 cm) with normal row spacing (30 cm) on grain yield and yield components in five wheat varieties viz; MH-97, Sughat, Daman-98, Fakhar-e- Sarhad and Tatara at the Research area, Agricultural Faculty, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan. The outcomes shown that the two row spacing pointedly effected plant height, plant population m-², spikes m-^{2 ,}spikelets spikes^-1, spikes m-², number grains spike^-1, and 1000 grains weight. Grains yield and spike weight remained non-significant. Among varieties Daman-98 produced taller plants, maximum spike length, number of spikelets^-1 spike, spike weight, number of grains and thousands grain weight. Maximum grain yield were recorded by Tatara, MH-97 and Fakhar-e-Sarhad respectively.