Agricultural Reviews
  • Year: 2006
  • Volume: 27
  • Issue: 1

Weed shift in rice based cropping systems - A review

  • Author:
  • A.V. Ramanjaneyulu, Rajvir Sharma, Gajendra Giri
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 73 to 78

Division of Agronomy, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110 012, India.

Abstract

Phalaris minor and Avena sativa were found to be major weeds in rice-wheat system while Echinochloa sp. and Cyperus sp. in rice-rice and Cyanotis axillaris, Euphorbia hirta and Ipomea aguatica in rice-mung+sesame system. Zero tillage reduced the population of Phalaris minor and Chenopodium album.