Effects of Tillage Practices on Productivity of Wheat under the Indo-Gangetic Plains

Field experiment was conducted for two consecutive years at the research farm of Baba Raghav Das Post Graduate College, Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, India to evaluate the effect of different tillage practices on soil health and crop productivity of wheat under the rice-wheat cropping system of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India under the irrigated ecosystem. Results revealed that treatment T3produced significantly higher yield attributes in terms of number of ear bearing shoots (407)as compared to T(390). However, it was also recorded that the grain weight per spike and test weight 4were significantly lower in Tand Tover rest of the practices. The similar trends were followed in 34case of grain yield under the T(45.60) being on a par with T(45.50 but it was recorded significantly 34superior over rest of the tillage practices. With respect to the soil physical and chemical properties, it was also noticed significantly higher under the treatment Tas compared to other treatment