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Marigold is one of the most important commercially grown loose flower crops in India. It is used as loose flower or to make garlands, which are extensively used in the religious and social functions. Marigold is broadly classified into two groups, viz., African marigold (Tagetes erecta L.) and French marigold (Tagetes patula L.). About 342000 ha of area is under floriculture producing 1760000 MT of loose flowers and 769000 MT of cut flowers annually (2017-18 advanced estimates). In order to sustain the growth the floriculture sector must constantly innovate to produce novel products. To meet the objective RBD and CACP tools were used for data analysis. The result shows the T7 perform better in both way i.e. growth aspects as well as economically.

Background: This study was conducted about the effectiveness of weed Dactyloctenium aegyptium. Weedsare familiar dominant, redundant, adverse and weed that contend with sophisticated crop for water, nutrient and sunlight and another several reasons such as, high growth rate, high reproductive rate and produce harmful or beneficial allelopathical effect of cultivated crops. The stems of Dactyloctenium aegyptium are willowy, geniculate and leaves are found roughly. Methods: This Investigation was done in 2018-19 to 2020-21. Different part of Dactyloctenium aegyptium as leaves and seed was taken from the near area of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Agriculture and Technology University Modipuram Meerut. The samples were shade dry for 24 to 48 hours and then grind in the powder form. The extract were prepare in different organic solvent as Methanol, Ethyl acetate, Butyl alcohol, Benzene and Water at 1:10 ratio. Antioxidant activity of weed extracts by three methods named DPPH FRAP and ABTS methods. Result: All part of this weed show effectiveness due to the presence of active compound, who responsible for the positive result. Extract mixed with media at a particular concentration i.e. 5%, 10% and 15% show effect on soil borne fungal phytopathogens and then over the surface of petriplate the growth was appear reduce when we increase the concentration of extract. At the end we conclude that the 15% extract concentration of both part of Dactyloctenium reduce the growth of all the soil borne fungal phytopathogens.

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Background: As it is well known that intensive and indiscriminate use of chemicals in agriculture has caused very serious problems to the environment and as well as the human beings as it has poisoned our food also contaminated for soil and water. Aim to make light of the adverse effect of these chemical pesticides the extract of Dactyloctenium aegyptium was used against the soil borne plant pathogens i.e., Fusarium oxysporium, Rhizoctonia solani, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Sclerotium rolfsi. Methods: In this field-laboratory investigation during 2018-19, different part of Dactyloctenium aegyptium extracts show the antifungal activity against soil born fungal phyto-pathogen and also show the effect on vigna (Moong) at different parameters. The antifungal activity was resolute by well diffusion method. It is very effortless and usual method to resolve the inhibition zone. Result: Our investigation in which the heptane extract of the Dactyloctenium weed both part s was found to be most effective against the fungal plant pathogens i.e. 0.00 over the control which was 6.3 and 5.8 in Fusarium oxysporium and Rhizoctonia solani respectively and extract in ethyl acetate and butyl alcohol was show lowest effectiveness against Rhizoctonia solani, Sclerotium rolfsi i.e 5.3 and 6.4. In case of green gram germination, Dactyloctenium aegyptium in different solvent at 25% concentration, butylalcohol was the highest in increasing the germination percentage (100) show effectiveness. The leaves, root and stem length show highest effectiveness respectively methanol, heptane and water. The overall effectiveness of the different extract against the fungal plant pathogens were found significantly effective.