been hindered by a declining supply of farm labor (Taylor et al. 2012), generating interest among growers in methods to reduce labor requirements for thinning, weeding, irrigating and harvesting (Fennimore et al. 2010; 2014). Thinning lettuce is particularly labor intensive, and most lettuce fields in California are hand-thinned (manually thinned). Automated lettuce thinners that use machine vi...

The study was carried out at Lamahi-8, Satbariya, Dang to evaluate the effect of different weed management practices on production spring maize. experiment in a Randomized Complete Block Design using three replications and seven treatments. Rampur hybrid 10 variety early post emergence (EPoE) herbicide were used experiment. treatment consisted single as well combined methods T1: Broadcasting-On...

Even when considered a modern cultivation system, silvopastoral systems can be rapidly degraded if some cares, mainly related to weed control, are not observed at the early stages of establishment this system. The present work had objective evaluating use forage legumes on suppression and initial development Teak (Tectona grandis) implementing Four legume species were used, namely: pinto peanut...

Weeding is an important time consuming and drudgery prone task mainly performed by hill farm women for almost all crops grown. This directs for interventions in terms of improved technologies (weeder, kutla and hoes) to relieve women from high energy demands, time spent and associated drudgery particularly for weeding activity. The study was conducted in two hill states of India viz. Himachal P...

in order to evaluate the effects of intercropping of maize- peanut, weeding and their planting design on weed population dynamics, an experiment was conducted as a factorial experiment in the form of rcbd with three replications at the research farm of agriculture center of zabol university (iran) in 2012. the treatments including sowing system in four levels as first factor  (sole maize, sole ...