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Weeding and hoeing are common cultural and manual weed management methods for greengram. Manual weeding at right stage is difficult, time consuming and expensive due to intermittent rainfall during rainy season and scanty labour, therefore, farmers rarely adopt manual weeding for weed control. Under such situation, herbicides use with suitable dose remains the pertinent choice for controlling the weeds. Herbicides in isolation, however, are unable do complete weed control because of their selective kill. Manual weeding or spraying of recommended pre-emergence herbicide is some time difficult in rainy season for efficient weed control and pre-emergence herbicides controls weed during early growth stage, but later, newly germinated weeds flora cannot be controlled by pre-emergence application. This warrants the use of post emergence herbicide for weed control. Under this situation, supplement of herbicides along with physical method prove in augmenting the yield of green gram (Gupta et al. 1990). Thus, an experiment was conducted with an aim to control early weeds of the greengram crop during rainy season with the help of combinations of pre and post applied herbicides.

Key words: Pendimethalin, Imaghe thapyr, Image mox, Moongbean Weed.