The use of leaf mulch as a soil cover is effective in improving yield and soil fertility. The field experiment was conducted during 2010 and 2011 to study the effect of plant spacing (30 cm × 30 cm and 45 cm × 30 cm) and four mulches {pine needles (Pinus roxburghii), poplar leaf (Populus deltoides), silver oak (Grevillea robusta) tree leaf mulch and unmulched control} on growth, yield, qual...

A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the integrated effect of weed control practices on the weed control efficiency, growth and yield of autumn planted maize (Zea mays L.) under agroecological conditions of Faisalabad. Treatments comprised manual hoeing and earthing up alone and in combination with metolachlor + atrazine @1110+740 g a.i.ha; manual hoeing + earthing up, metolachlor + atr...

in this study, the performance of different cultivation methods on sugar beet fields was evaluated. eight treatments were considered: a) use of a rolling cultivator twice during the growing season; b) use of a rolling cultivator three times during the growing season; c) use of a crescent cultivator twice during the growing season; d) use of a crescent cultivator three times during the growing s...

Adoption of conservative agriculture at farm level is associated with reducing the production costs and leads to crop yield stability. The aim of this study was to prioritize experimental treatments based on different criteria by applying "technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution" (TOPSIS).A filed experiment was carried out at Zarghan research station, Fars province, Iran,...

to evaluate the competition effect of velvetleaf on cotton, an experiment was conducted in a completelyrandomized block design with split plot arrangement of treatments with three replications at experimentalstation of gorgan university of agricultural sciences and natural resources during 2011 growingseason. the treatments were three row spacing (20, 40 and 80cm) of cotton (as main plot) and f...

A two-year field experiment was carried out to investigate the effects of nitrogen, composted manure, municipal waste compost, and weeds on yield and photosynthetic characteristics of corn. Experimental design was split split plot factorial with 3 replications. Main plots were weedy and weed-free, sub plots were nitrogen fertilizer levels [0 (N0) and 200 (N200) kg N ha -1 as urea], and sub sub ...

In order to reduce herbicide application an intelligent sprayer boom is being developed. It only sprays with herbicides if the weed infestation exceeds a certain weed control threshold. The estimation of leaf cover of weeds through image analysis is a prerequisite for the weed management model of the intelligent sprayer boom. Destructive and human perception methods of leaf cover estimation are...

Weed management must be based on integrated plant protection methods that minimise economically unacceptable loss of crop yield but preserve the contribution of weeds to biodiversity. The on-line decision support system “Weeds” has been developed to assist in achieving this balance by the selection of appropriate herbicides and the calculation of appropriate doses to control the weeds present i...