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Herbicide use in agriculture: An Indian perspective

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Title Herbicide use in agriculture: An Indian perspective
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Creator Partha P. Choudhury, Dibakar Ghosh1, Amitava Sanyal2, Debi Sharma
 
Subject Chemical management, Herbicide consumption, Herbicide use, Indian perspective
 
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Till recently, weed management in crop lands in India was almost exclusively a manual
farm operation, involving women and child labour. However, since a few decades, our
farmers are facing problems in weed management due to spread of obnoxious weeds and
also due to higher manual labour costs. Herbicides have taken the responsibility to
combat this problem. The use of herbicides for weed control was limited to plantation
crops like tea in north-eastern region and some major crops like rice and wheat in the
high productivity areas of north-western India. Farmers are realizing the efficiency of
herbicides in controlling weeds at low cost. Low-dose high-potency herbicides of
various groups with different modes of action and their mixtures are now available for
broad-spectrum weed control in all major crops including the food grain crops,
horticultural plantations and also non-cropped areas. Herbicide resistance in weeds can
also be managed by rotating the herbicides of different modes of action or by applying
combination products. The only thing, we need, is judicious use of safer herbicides that
may serve our purpose to secure food along with conserving biological diversity. This
chapter provides an in-depth perspective on use, regulation, marketing and fate of
herbicides in India.
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Date 2019-03-19T03:43:44Z
2019-03-19T03:43:44Z
1001-01-01
 
Type Book chapter
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/17432
 
Language English
 
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