Studies conducted at Agricultural College Farm, Pune revealed that the grain yield was significantly increased with 20, 40 and 60 per cent depletion of available coil moisture over 80 per cent depletion of available soil moisture during all the three seasons as well as in pooled analysis. Application of 120 kg N+80 kg P₂O/ha gave significantly higher grain yield than 30 kg N/+20 kg P₂O/ha during all the three seasons. It was also abserved that the variety HD-4502 was superior to variety NI-5643 during all the three seasons. The interaction effects lov among the different factors wara not significant.
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