For a trial with 40 treatments was laid out in RBD with 2 replications and due to field restrictions, each replication was divided into 2 blocks.
Is it correct to analyse this trial with regular RBD? if not, what is the way to analyse this trial?
Generally we go for incomplete block designs for large number of treatments, what are the difficulties we will face if we use complete block designs for large number of treatments?
From what I understand in your description, you have 40 treatments x 2 Blocks, with each treatment level being represented exactly once per block.
If so, I think it is amenable to the RCBD ANOVA. Alternatively, if your treatments can be expressed as a continuous variable (e.g., fertilizer level 1, 10, 100, etc.), you can fit a linear regression model to test the effect of treatment while controlling for the block.