Practice Name:

Using Wheat Husk as Weedkiller


Details
Category Crop Protection and Disease Management
Crop
Crop Family
Scientific Name
Vernacular Name
Scout HBN
Ingredients Wheat (Triticum aestivum), pearl millet (Pennisetum typhoides)
Control Mode

Innovator / Knowledge Provider Harkhabhai Bhikhabhai Gohil
District Bhavnagar
KVK District Krishi Vigyan Kendra, At- Lok Bharati Sanosara, Ta- Sinhor, Dist.-Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
Address Sosiya, Gujarat
Languages Spoken
Vocation Farming
State Gujarat
PIN Code 364081

PAS_1 "Wheat Weed Control." https://www.sunflower.k-state.edu/agronomy/wheat/wheat_weed_control.html
PAS_2 "Preventive methods include crop rotation, cover crops (when used as green manures or dead mulches), tillage systems, seed bed preparation, soil solarisation, and management of drainage and irrigation systems and of crop residues.Cultural methods include crop sowing time and spatial arrangement, crop genotype choice, cover crops (when used as living mulches), intercropping, and crop fertilization.Curative methods include any chemical, physical (e.g. mechanical and thermal) and biological methods used for direct weed control in an already established crop. A list of the main methods that can be used in an integrated weed management strategy is shown in." http://www.fao.org/3/y5031e/y5031e0e.htm
Agro Ecological Zone Agro Ecological Sub Region (ICAR) Central Highlands (Malwa), Gujarat Plain (5.1) , Agro-Climatic Zone (Planning Commission) Gujarat Plains and hills region (XIII), Agro Climatic Zone (NARP) North Saurashtra, South Saurashtra (GJ-6,GJ-7)
Other Community Practices "Effect of rice bran application for eco-friendly weed control, growth and yield of lowland rice in Bangladesh International Journal of Agronomy and Agricultural Research (IJAAR)."https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277092588_Effect_of_rice_bran_application_for_eco-friendly_weed_control_growth_and_yield_of_lowland_rice_in_Bangladesh_International_Journal_of_Agronomy_and_Agricultural_Research_IJAAR
Practice ID DTP0010000001009
Reference HBN database
Annotation ID GIAN/GAVL/182
State Gujarat
PIN Code 364081