Exotic invasive plants present one of the greatest challenges to natural resource management. These weeds can alter entire communities and ecosystems, substantially degrading important ecosystem services such as forage for wild and domestic herbivores, water and soil quality, recreational values, and wildlife habitat. Traditionally, weed management in natural areas has focused on removing the t...

With the increasing pressure on crop production from the evolution of herbicide resistance, farmers are increasingly adopting Integrated Weed Management (IWM) strategies to augment their weed control. These include measures to increase the competitiveness of the crop canopy such as increased sowing rate and the use of more competitive cultivars. While there are data on the relative impact of th...

Background Diversified crop systems provide several advantages for production and the agricultural ecosystem. In contrast, growing same consecutive years increases weeds, insects, diseases issues, adding further cost to owing their management. Objective The objective was evaluate effects of six different winter cover crops compare impacts a diversified rotation system in contrast succession sys...

Weed is one of the major problems in maize production. To develop an appropriate weed management practice, a field experiment was carried out during 2017 and 2018 at Khumaltar. Twelve different treatments, Pendimethalin as pre @ 1.0 kg a.i ha-1, Atrazine 1 Metribuzine 0.5 Tembotrione post 0.2 followed by (fb) HW, fb + (early ) tank mixed, Straw mulch, free (2 HW) Weedy check (control) were eval...