Integrated Weed Management in Soybean through Front Line Demonstration in Farmer’s Field

Integrated Weed Management: Soybean Seeding Rate and Residual Herbicide

Increased soybean seed cost in recent years has generated interest in reducing seeding rates to maintain consistent economic returns. However, low seeding rates result in reduced established plant stands with slower canopy development, and canopy development is touted as an important element of integrated weed management (IWM). IWM practices have become even more important to slow the developme...

Integrated Weed Management in Maize

True integrated weed management

Using the simplest of definitions, integrated weed management has been described as “putting components [of weed control] together, not taking them apart.” Yet, weed science has stopped at the “field edge” in assembling the components into a truly integrated approach. What is keeping weed scientists from developing real integrated weed control regardless of space and time? The answer to this qu...

Farmers Perception about gains from Integrated Pest Management Farmer Field School

The study was conducted among the two farmer groups in Bhaktapur and Kavre districts of Nepal. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the differences in belief, attitude and practices felt by the farmers after participation in the IPM FFS. The study has been based on data collected through personal interview with the farmers, focus group discussion, personal observation in the farmers f...

The Effect of Teaching through Demonstration on Midwifery Student's Self-efficacy in Delivery Management

Introduction: Active learning methods are becoming increasingly popular in midwifery students education. So the aim of this study was to determine the effect of education using demonstration on midwifery student's self-efficacy in delivery managementMethods: This quasi-experimental study was performed in 2013 in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Thirty midwifery students were selected thr...