Weed Flora in Cereal crops of district Bannu

An Ultrasonic System for Weed Detection in Cereal Crops

Site-specific weed management requires sensing of the actual weed infestation levels in agricultural fields to adapt the management accordingly. However, sophisticated sensor systems are not yet in wider practical use, since they are not easily available for the farmers and their handling as well as the management practice requires additional efforts. A new sensor-based weed detection method is...

RoboWeedSupport-Sub Millimeter Weed Image Acquisition in Cereal Crops with Speeds up till 50 Km/H

For the past three years, the Danish project, RoboWeedSupport, has sought to bridge the gap between the potential herbicide savings using a decision support system and the required weed inspections. In order to automate the weed inspections it is desired to generate a map of the weed species present within the field, to generate the map images must be captured with samples covering the field. T...

Effect Of Weed Residues On The Physiology Of Common Cereal Crops

The allelopathic influence of plant residues of three dominant weeds of NorthWestern Himalayan region, namely, Eupatorium adenophorum, Ageratum conyzoides and Lantana camara was observed on the germination and early growth of three common cereal crops viz., Triticum aestivum cv. HPW-42, Oryza sativa cv. Hasanshrai Basmati and Zea mays cv. Girija. The effect of soil amended with weed residues at...

Consanguinity ratio in b-thalassemia major patients in District Bannu.

OBJECTIVE To assess the frequency of consanguinity in b-thalassemia major patients and its association with age, gender and hepatitis C virus antibody positivity. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted from June 2013 to July 2014 at various hospitals of district Bannu in the North Western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Data was recorded on a predesigned questionnaire. RES...

Weed Management: Implications of Herbicide Resistant Crops