GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF HYBRID MAIZE INFLUENCED BY IRRIGATION WATER

In the research, irrigation significantly affected growth and development, which increased with irrigation up to three irrigation level increased growth and development but remarkable varied rainfall irrigation and any irrigation system. In BARI hybrid maize-7 growth stages were significantly affected all parameters and the average development varied from 6.61 to 10.32t ha^–1. Three time irrigations reference irrigation treatment gave the highest growth and grain yield. The results revealed that the full irrigation is the best choice for higher growth and development. The evaporation or the crop water use is the daily withdraw from the bank. The bank or reservoir is replenished with irrigation or rainfall. However there had been no or minimal irrigation scheduling technologies developed for determining the optimum soil water regime for irrigated maize despite high irrigation advocacy by the government and other development partners. This has resulted farmers to over or under irrigate their maize crops that cause low development and environmental degradation.