National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Weeds are undesirable plants out of place and function as an uneconomic tax on the crop by taking the space required for the plant, absorbing the water and nutrients from the soil and by competing for other essentials like light, moisture etc. There are two methods generally employed for controlling weeds. viz., (i) Hand weeding, and (ii) Use of herbicides. In India, the first one is generally practiced by the farmers. This method is the most labour intensive and costly. Due to the industrial development, the agricultural labourers are engaged towards the industries for higher wages. This migration creates the labour problems particularly during the critical periods of different cultural operations. To overcome this difficulty, with the recent introduction of new herbicides, chemical weed control has come to the forefront as an additional tool to fight weeds.
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