Plant density did not influence plant emergence in the experiment. Higher plant density or closer plant spacing produced significantly taller plants than wider plant spacing but tillers plant-1 tend to decrease in closer plant spacing though the differences were not significant (Table 1). Leaf area index (LAI) was maximum in closer plant spacing and it decreased significantly in wider plant spacing (Table 1). The effect of plant spacing or density on the number of mother, primary, secondary and total rhizomes plant -1 were significant during 2004-05 (Table 2). Increase in plant spacing increased the mother, primary and secondary rhizomes plant -1. A similar trend was observed during 2003-04 though the differences were not significant.