An experiment was conducted at the Research and Training Farm of Federal College Horticulture Gombe State (10020’N 10030’E) during 2021 rainy season in Sudan Savanah agro-ecological zone Nigeria. The aim research is to evaluate effect seedling age time application post-emergence herbicide on growth yield lowland rice (Faro 44). consisted two factors, namely:- ( 3, 4, 5-week-old seedlings) weed ...

in order to evaluate the competitive ability of legume cover crops on interference of weeds in corn, an experiment was carried out in sari agricultural sciences and natural resources university during 2011 growing season. this research was carried out based on complete block design with three replications. treatments consisted of three cover crops including: soybean (glycine max l.), fenugreek ...

Indian agriculture, even after the Green Revolution, is not as productive as it could potentially be. It calls for a second Green Revolution – one of „precision agriculture‟, where cutting-edge technology is used to maximize production with minimum input costs and resources. In this paper we present a multi-purpose agricultural robot to implement precision irrigation, fertilizer addition and de...

1. Introduction Analysis of variance is used to test for the real treatment differences. When the null hypothesis that all the treatment means are equal is not rejected, it may seem that no further questions need to be asked. However, in some experimental situations, it may be an oversimplification of the problem. For example, consider an experiment in rice weed control with 15 treatments viz. ...

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...

to compare the effects of different weed management methods on seed bank of weeds grown in sugar beet (beta vulgaris l.), a field experiment was conducted at the agricultural research station, ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran, during 2006, 2007 and 2008. the experiment designed as a complete randomized block with three replications. the treatments including: disk+ fhenmedifham, disk+ fhenme...

1.17 The drudgery of weeding is so ingrained into the lives of farmers in developing countries that weeds are taken for granted and often overlooked in pest surveys. And yet weeding by hand, typically carried out by women and children, accounts for 50% of the total labour inputs needed to produce a crop, deprives millions of children the joys of playtime – and often schooling – and adds to the ...