Umer Farooq¹, Ejaz Ahmed Khan¹, Abdul Aziz Khakwani¹, Saeed Ahmed², Nazeer Ahmed*³ and Gohar Zaman⁴

¹Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan-Pakistan

²State University of Londrina Centre of Agriculture Sciences Londrina, Parana (PR) Brazil

³Key Laboratory of Applied Entomology, Northwest A&F University. Yangling, China

⁴Department of Environmental Science COMSATS University, Vehari campus Multan, Pakistan

 

ABSTRACT

 

The research was performed, at Agronomic Research Area, Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University Dera Ismail Khan, to assess the impact of sowing time and seeding density on grain yield of wheat variety Gomal-08. Treatments included three dates of sowing as D₁ (Oct-25), D₂ (Nov-20), D₃ (Dec-15) and three seeding rates (kg ha^-1) of S₁-100, S₂-120, S₃-150. Almost all yield parameters showed significant variability among treatments means. Maximum grain spike^-1(g), number of fertile tillers m^-2, spike length (cm), economic yield (t ha^-1) and thousand grain weight (g) were recorded in D₁(Oct-25) and D₂ (Nov-20) with S₁ and S₂ as compared to late planted wheat with higher seed rate applied.

 

Keywords: Wheat, Plant Density, Sowing Date, Production

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