Issue · 2019
Vol. 25, Iss. 1
6 articles · All issues →
Research ArticleUTILITARIAN ASPECTS OF WEEDS OF WHEAT FIELDS IN CHARBAGH VALLEY DISTRICT SWAT PAKISTAN
Muhammad Nauman Khan, Fazal Hadi, Maryam Bibi, Naushad Khan, Syed Mukaram Shah
Weed survey was conducted from February to May 2016, in fields of wheat crop of Charbagh Valley, district Swat. Information on 18 families and 34 species was collected with regard to their ecological characteristics, medicinal and other economic uses by local…
13 Aug 2024DOI 10.28941/25-1(2019)-4- Research Article
EFFICIENCY OF NITROGEN SOURCES AS COMPOSTING STARTER AND DECOMPOSITION OF PARTHENIUM WEED INTO A QUALITY COMPOST
Wiqar Ahmad, Sadiq Hussain, Muhammad Sharif, Farmanullah Khan
Nitrogen starter is an essential component of successful composting. Parthenium weed, being high nutrient accumulator from agricultural soils, was composted under different sources of nitrogen viz chiken manure, blood meal, soybean meal, cotton seed meal, urea…
13 Aug 2024DOI 10.28941/25-1(2019)-3 - Research Article
INTERACTIONS OF Capsicum annuum L IN MONOCULTURE AND IN INTERCROPPING WITH Setaria verticillata (L.) P. BEAUVOIS.
Abdessatar Omezine
Mixture is a system of two or more different plant species interacting with each other in different manners. Interspecific competition, resource complementarity and facilitation may modulate better performance of a mixture. It is difficult to interpret the res…
13 Aug 2024DOI 10.28941/25-1(2019)-6 - Research Article
ESTIMATION OF ECONOMIC THRESHOLD OF Convolvulus arvensis L. WEED IN WHEAT (Triticum aestivum L.)
Muhammad Ehsan Safdar, Muhammad Sikander Hayyat, Muhammad Zeshan Maajid, Mubashar Nadeem, Amjed Ali
Weed economic threshold in a specific crop serves as a tool for employing its cost-effective management. Studies were carried out to find out competitive effect of field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis L.) on wheat at research area of College of Agriculture, Un…
13 Aug 2024DOI 10.28941/25-1(2019)-2 - Research Article
IMPACT OF COVER CROPS IN IMPROVING AGRO-ECOSYTEMS INCLUDING SUSTAINABLE WEED SUPPRESSION – A REVIEW
Fasih Ullah Haider, Sardar Alam Cheema1and Muhammad Farooq
Weeds are always considered as one of the serious pests that compete for their growth and development and decline the production in of major crops. Weeds occur in abundance in every cropping system i.e. wheat-rice, wheat- maize and wheat- cotton cropping syste…
13 Aug 2024DOI 10.28941/25-1(2019)-5 - Research Article
STUDY OF PRE AND EARLY POST EMERGENCE ALLELOPATHIC EFFECTS ON SELECTED WEEDS OF SEVERAL SORGHUM [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench.] AND PEARL MILLET (Pennisetum glaucum L.) CULTIVARS IN ZIMBABWE
Mukondwa Olivia, Rugare Joyful Tatenda, Mabasa Stanford, Mandumbu Ronald
Allelopathy has been identified as potentially a cost effective, natural weed control method which could be exploited by smallholders who have little access to herbicides. The objective of this study was to investigate the potential of sorghum and pearl millet…
13 Aug 2024DOI 10.28941/25-1(2019)-1