Smallholder farmers in southern Africa have reported on increased labour requirements for hoe weeding due to high weed infestations in conservation farming (CF) fields. However, CF proponents claim that weed pressure and labour requirements for weeding decrease within the first three years under the recommended CF practices. An observational study was carried out during the 2008/09 cropping sea...

introduction: weed competition is one of the major factors which limit sugar beet production in the world. weed – crop interactions are based on competition for water, nutrients and light and allelopathic effects may also play a small role. in sugar beet weed interference, all these factors are important too, but the light is of prime importance. due to the fact that a lot of weeds can grow abo...

The purpose of this study is to determine the economic behavior cashew farmers, namely production (weeding, pruning, fertilizing and pest disease control), marketing behavior, saving investment behavior; effect social factors (age, education level, number family members, experience land area) on farmers. was conducted in Mawasangka District, Central Buton Regency, Southeast Sulawesi Province. D...

this experiment was conducted to determine the effect of competition between common weed in chickpea’s form in kermanshah and chickpea (cicer arietinum). it was carried out in sararood experimental station in kermanshah province in 2000. split plot factorial was considered as an experimental design that had four replications. the weeding was main factor with two different levels (whole season w...

Onion (Allium cepa L.) weed interference lowers bulb yield and financial return for onion growers who pay labour. During the Rabi seasons of 2011–12 2012–13, a field experiment was worked out at Horticultural College Research Institute, Dr.Y.S.R University, Venkataramanagudem, Tadepalligudem, West Godavari District, A.P to examine effects pre post emergence herbicides on economics cv.N–53. Ten ...