Table 4.
Labor use, costs of establishment and weed management, variable cost and the share of weed management of variable cost in beushening and dry drill-DSR (Experiment I).
| Variables* | Treatments | Bhadrak |
Mayurbhanj |
Cuttack | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 2018 | 2017 | 2018 | 2018 | ||
| Labor for weeding/beushening (person-days ha−1) | Beushening | 45 | 50 | 82 | 85 | 60 |
| Drill-DSR | 5 | 6 | 15 | 20 | 15 | |
| LSD0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Establishment cost (US$ ha−1) | Beushening | 45 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
| Drill-DSR | 60 | 60 | 57 | 57 | 57 | |
| LSD0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Weed management cost (US$ ha−1) | Beushening | 129 | 143 | 234 | 243 | 171 |
| Drill-DSR | 43 | 47 | 78 | 98 | 71 | |
| LSD0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Variable cost (US$ ha−1) | Beushening | 441 | 474 | 568 | 576 | 444 |
| Drill-DSR | 354 | 363 | 397 | 417 | 336 | |
| LSD0.05 | 18 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1.3 | |
| Share of weed management cost of variable cost (%) | Beushening | 29 | 30 | 41 | 42 | 38 |
| Drill-DSR | 12 | 13 | 20 | 24 | 21 | |
| LSD0.05 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
*All the variables were significantly different (LSD test at P ≤ 0.05) between beushening and drill-DSR in both years in all districts.