Author(s)

Bisheshwor Prasad Pandey, Komal Bahadur Basnet, Madan Raj Bhatta, Shrawan Kumar Sah, Resham Bahadur Thapa, Tanka Prasad Kandel

Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Research Centre Foulum, Tjele, Denmark.
Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Tribhuvan University, Rampur, Nepal.
National Wheat Research Program (NWRP), Rupendehi, Nepal.

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 (p < 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^-1) as compared to Gautam (3.11 t·ha^-1). Both wheat varieties yielded about 11% higher (p < 0.05) grain in the north-south sowing as compared to the eastwest sowing.

Grain Yield; Row Direction; Row Spacing; Triticum Aestivum; Wheat Variety

Pandey, B. , Basnet, K. , Bhatta, M. , Sah, S. , Thapa, R. and Kandel, T. (2013) Effect of row spacing and direction of sowing on yield and yield attributing characters of wheat cultivated in Western Chitwan, Nepal. Agricultural Sciences, 4, 309-316. doi: 10.4236/as.2013.47044.