• G.Murugan
• V.Hari Kumari
• K.Suseendran
• S.Krishna Prabhu
• R.Rex Immanuel

Field investigation was carried out at the Annamalai University, Experimental Farm, Department of Agronomy, Annamalai Nagar with rice cv. ADT 43. The treatments compared were rice alone as control (T1), Rice + Fish (T2) , Rice + Poultry (T3), Rice + Japanese quail (T4), Rice + Fish + Poultry (T5) and Rice + Fish + Japanese quail (T6). The treatments were compared in Randomized Block Design with four replications on a plot size of 80 m2. Among the treatments, integrated rice farming with fish and poultry components (T5) recorded the highest growth characters viz., plant height of 87.79 cm, number of tillers clump-1 of 12.39, leaf area index of 6.34 and crop dry matter of 8.11 t ha-1 and yield attributes viz., highest number of panicles clump-1 of 5.21, number of filled grains panicle-1 of 97.95. Integration of poultry with rice (T3) recorded the highest grain yield of 5.27 t ha-1 and it was on par with rice + fish + poultry (T5). The least grain yield of 4.01 t ha-1 was observed with rice + fish (T2). However, it was comparable with rice alone (T1).

Rice, integrated farming system, growth and yield

"COMPARITIVE STUDY OF GROWTH AND YIELD PERFORMANCE OF RICE BASED FARMING SYSTEMS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.202-205, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904L26.pdf

"COMPARITIVE STUDY OF GROWTH AND YIELD PERFORMANCE OF RICE BASED FARMING SYSTEMS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp202-205, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904L26.pdf