%0 Journal Article
%T Effect of row spacing and direction of sowing on yield and yield attributing characters of wheat  cultivated in Western Chitwan, Nepal
%A Bisheshwor Prasad Pandey
%A Komal Bahadur Basnet
%A Madan Raj Bhatta
%A Shrawan Kumar Sah
%A Resham Bahadur Thapa
%A Tanka Prasad Kandel
%J Agricultural Sciences
%P 309-316
%@ 2156-8561
%D 2013
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/as.2013.47044
%X <p>
	<span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">A field experiment was conducted to
study the growth and productivity of wheat as affected by row spacing and
direction of sowing at Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal during the 2007-2008 wheat growing
season. The experiment was carried out in 3-factors factorial randomized
complete block design comprising two varieties (Gautam and BL-2800), three row
spacings (15, 20 and25 cm)
and two row directions of sowing (east-west and north-south). The effects of
variety and row direction of sowing on grain yield were significant (</span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">p</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> &lt; 0.05), but the grain yield was
not affected by the row spacing treatment. BL-2800 variety produced higher grain yield (3.53 t¡¤ha<sup>-</sup></span><sup><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">1</span></sup><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">) as compared to Gautam (3.11 t</span></span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\">¡¤</span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\">ha<sup>-</sup></span><sup><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\">1</span></sup><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\">). </span><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Both wheat varieties yielded about 11% higher (</span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">p</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> &lt;
0.05) grain in the north-south sowing as compared to the eastwest
sowing.</span></span> 
</p>
%K Grain Yield
%K Row Direction
%K Row  Spacing
%K Triticum Aestivum
%K Wheat Variety
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=33834