Minimum tillage treatments with Paraquat at the rate of 0.8 and 1.2kg a.i./ha Paraquat suppressed all kinds of weeds and also killed the stubbles of the previous rice crop and can therefore substitute pudding.The wee infestation reduced the grain yield by 20.95 per cent.Hand weeding and working rotary weeder recorded maximum yields and net profit and also efficiently controlled the weeds.- Propanil and butachlor were on par and significantly superior to unweeded check.The weed control efficiency was 80.92. 47.11 and 28.60 per cent for hand weeding.Stam F.34 and Machete respectively.
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