Evaluation of Mulching Methods and Legume Intercropping on Weed Control Efficiency and Agronomic Traits of Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum)

Aim: To evaluate the weed control efficiencies of different mulching practices and legume intercropping in transplanted pearl millet.
 Study Design: Randomized Complete Block Design (RBD).
 Place Duration Study: The field trial was conducted during Rabi season 2022 at school agricultural sciences Karunya Institute technology sciences, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
 Methodology: consists 8 treatments viz., T1 - PE Atrazine 0.5kg/ ha +1 Hand Weeding 30 DAT, T2 Two 15 T3 Paddy straw 5t/ 3 T4 Black polythene T5 silver T6 Intercropping pulses (cowpea) (1:1), T7 (1:1) + Pendimethalin 0.75 kg/ ha, T8 Un weeded check.
 Results: Results experiment proves that cowpea millet along with pre-emergence application pendimethalin to be beneficial advantageous terms returns per rupee invested for profitable crop production, rather than going mulches. Hence adoption millet, usage mild herbicides like pendimethalin, will an economically viable environmentally sustainable management practice improving yield millet.