Weed control in strip planted wheat under conservation agriculture practice is more effective than conventional tillage
Keywords:
Herbicides, Mulchs, Strip planting, Weed control, YieldAbstract
Smallholder farms in South Asia are rapidly adopting herbicides for labour saving weed control in crops but effective weed management technologies have not been well developed. Weed management technologies are especially in demand for the emerging Conservation Agriculture practices involving minimum soil disturbance planting and retention of crop residues. The present study was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of crop reesidue retention relative to herbicides and hand weeding for weed control and yield of strip-planted, irrigated wheat on the Eastern Gangetic Plain of Bangladesh. Wheat (cv. BARI Wheat 26) was grown during the winter season (November-March) in 2014-15 (first year) and 2015-16 (second year) after monsoon rice, with strip planting (SP) and conventional tillage (CT) combined with the six weed control practices [T1: CT + three hand weedings (HW) (Control), T2: pre-plant herbicide (PRE) + SP + one HW, T3: PRE + SP + pre-emergence herbicide (PE), T4: PRE + SP + post-emergence herbicide (PO), T5: PRE + SP + PE + PO, T6: PRE + SP + weed-free (WF)], and two levels of retained rice straw viz., M0: no-mulch and M50: 50% standing mulch. The PRE herbicide (glyphosate), PE herbicide (pendimethalin) and PO herbicide (carfentrazone-ethyl) were applied at recommended dose and time. The combination of applied PRE, SP, followed by sequential application of PE and PO herbicides and the retention of 50% mulch achieved the highest weed control efficacy. Furthermore, this practice produced the 24% higher yield and 40% higher economic returns relative to the control treatment. Hence, the study concluded that the SP integrated with effective herbicides and residue mulching-based weed control options was more profitable than manual weeding in CT while also saving labour for wheat production.
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