• SHRADDHA AHIRWAR

A field experiment was conducted at the Farm of College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Godhra, Gujarat during the year 2018-19, to study the influence of drip irrigation regimes with mulching on the physiological development and yield of the rabi maize (Zea Mays L.) in the sandy loam soil of the region of Middle Gujarat. The field experiment design was a split-split plot with 36 treatment combinations with 3 replications including three irrigation regimes (1.0IW/CPE, 0.8IW/CPE and 0.6IW/CPE), four mulch conditions (control, paddy straw, black plastic and reflective silver plastic mulch), and three stages (tasselling, silking and dough stage). The result revealed that as the consumption of water increased, growth parameters, grain yield, and its attributes increased significantly at each higher level of irrigation regimes up to 1.0 IW/CPE with reflective silver plastic mulch under all the stages but 0.8 IW/CPE with black plastic mulch result was comparable to 1.0 IW/CPE with reflective silver plastic mulch.

Growth parameters, growth stages, irrigation regimes, mulching and yield

"Drip irrigation regimes based scheduling for rabi maize (Zea Mays) under mulch in middle Gujarat", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no.h122-h127, July-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307714.pdf

"Drip irrigation regimes based scheduling for rabi maize (Zea Mays) under mulch in middle Gujarat", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no. pph122-h127, July-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307714.pdf