An agro-physiological study was carried out during winter of 1972-73 and 1973-74 at the U.P.Institute of Agricultural Sciences.Kanpur to compare the direct seeded crop of wheat wth transplanting to select suitable varieties and to fix optimum age of the seedlings for transplanting.Transplanting of wheat was found better than direct seeding.Moti was the for transplanting in mid December,closely followed by K 816 for late December and in mid January.Twenty five day old seedlings were observed to perform well.
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