A field experiment was conducted at Agricultural Research Station, Hukkeri (Dist. Belagavi), Karnataka duringsuru (January) 2020 on medium black clay loam soils, to study the weed management strategy in sugarcane through earlypost emergence herbicides. There were nine treatments laid out in randomized complete block design replicated thrice. Thetreatments consisted of different early post emergence herbicides alone and in combination with atrazine as tank mixapplication at 2-3 leaf stage of weeds and were compared with weed free check and recommended package of practice i.e.,Atrazine 50% WP @ 1.25 kg a.i., ha-1 as pre-emergence (PE) followed by (fb.) 2-4 D Na salt 80% WP @ 2.0 kg a.i., ha-1 aspost emergence (PoE) application at 60 days after planting (DAP).Among the herbicide applied treatments to plant cane,Topramezone 33.6% SC @ 30.24 g a.i., ha-1 + Atrazine 50% WP @ 0.5 kg a.i., ha-1 (tank mix) as early post emergence(EPoE) application at 2-3 leaf stage of weeds recorded significantly lower weed density (5.46 m-2), dry weight (2.94 g m-2)and higher weed control index (81.17%) for total weeds at 40 days after herbicide application (DAHA) with lower weedindex (3.17%)., which was on par with Topramezone 33.6% SC @ 30.24 g a.i., ha-1 alone as EPoE (5.88 m-2, 3.31 g m-2, 75.89 %and 7.46 %, respectively). Application of Topramezone 33.6 % SC @ 30.24 g a.i., ha-1 + Atrazine 50 % WP @ 0.5 kg a.i., ha-1 asEPoE also recorded significantly higher weed control index (84.42-76.29 %) at 20-60 DAHA, cane yield (134.10 t ha-1),higher net returns (`215736 ha-1) and benefit cost ratio (2.41) and was on par with Topramezone 33.6 % SC @ 30.24 g a.i., ha-1alone as EPoE. Phytotoxicity was not observed due to application of early post emergence herbicides on plant cane andsucceeding intercrops (wheat and chickpea) in ratoon cane. As sugarcane is a long duration irrigated crop and labouravailability is becoming scarce, these herbicide treatments can be better alternative to RPP and weed free check in plant cane.Keywords: Cane yield, Economics, Herbicides, Sugarcane, Weed control index