Authors : S.S. Dudhe, P.D. Khirade and N. S. Dudhe
Page Nos : 263-266
Description :
Chandrapur district of Maharashtra state is the most popular for the forest; despite of that agriculture continues to be the most important sector of villagers for their livelihood and generating economy, as well as providing employment to the labors and farmers. Weed invading largely in agriculture land and at the present movement weeding is the drudgery for farmers due to many reasons including unavailability of agriculture labours, expensive, time consuming. In accordance with this research in weeding has investigated various techniques varying from mechanical, chemical and biological. Due to the fact that chemical method have produced excellent results. The agrochemical pendimethalin (stomp) proved to be most efficient weed controller in agriculture land of broad leaved weeds, the agrochemical stomp has low to moderate acute toxicity towards animals and humans. In this study various concentrations of stomp in ppm were applied on weed Hyptis suaveolens L. to observe the effects. The results revealed that higher concentration dose of stomp was lethal to the weed.
