Department of Extension and Communication, Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Allahabad (U. P.), India.
1 DE-NOCIL Crop Protection Limited India.
The study was conducted during 1999 in the Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttaranchal to assess the technology gaps and to identify the constraints, in adopting weed management practices. Majority of the respondents had neutral attitude towards rice-wheat cropping system. Majority of the farmers 44% under rice-wheat cropping system were having knowledge, more than 50% regarding modem weed management practices in rice and 65% farmers were possessing more than 75% knowledge about modern weed management practices in wheat. Fanners under rice crop reported maximum gap 54% against herbicide application methods through broadcasting by mixing with urealsand and minimum gap (3%) against stage of herbicides application recommendation adopting integrated weed management. In wheat crop, none of the farmers used the manual weeding alone for controlling weeds. Chemical or integrated weed management was adopted by the respondents. Overall average gap in weed management practices in rice crop was 25%. Maximum average technological gap 31.4% in wheat crop was found in case of chemical weeding followed by integrated weed management 20.3%. Overall average gap in weed management practices in wheat crop was 25.8%.
