Practice Name:

Weed Control in Guava Orchard

Details
Category	Crop Production
Crop	Guava
Crop Family	Myrtaceae
Scientific Name	(Psidium guajava)
Vernacular Name	Jamfal
Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Sunhemp (Crotalaria juncea), sorghum (Sorghum vulgare)
Details of Innovation	Experiments have been conducted with the sunhemp (Crotalaria juncea) and sorghum (Sorghum vulgare) crop for the control of weeds in guava (Psidium guajava) orchard. On one side, reduced seed rate was kept for sowing and on the other side, sowing was done by using high seed rate. In dense sowing, the distance between two rows were nine inches and between two plants it was one inch. While, in light sowing, the distance between two plants was 4 - 6 inches . In densesowing, there were no weeds due to the non-availability of sunlight for photosynthesis. In light or low seed rate sowing, there were too much weeds. The selection of sunhemp and sorghum were done due to their fast growing habitat as compared to the growth of weeds, so they cover the weeds under the shade. Sorghum is used for the fodder purpose while, sunhemp is used as green manuring crop.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Manjulaben Muljibhai Bhalani
District	Bhavnagar
KVK District	Krishi Vigyan Kendra, At- Lok Bharati Sanosara, Ta- Sinhor, Dist.-Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
Address	Bhavnagar Gujarat
Languages Spoken
Vocation	Farming
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	364001

PAS_1	"Cultural practices to improve weed control in winter wheat." https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2505&context=extensionhist
PAS_2
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
Practice ID	DTP0010000002689
Reference	lok (2) 1 Jan-Feb- 1997, Pg No. 6
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/344
State	Gujarat
PIN Code	364001