Agroecological Management of Weeds – Minimizing Chemical Herbicides in Arable Cropping
Author: Bärbel Gerowitt
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2024-09-19
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 2832552560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWeeds have a strong impact on arable production, causing yield quantity and quality losses. Adequately controlling them is fundamental in arable cropping. However, weeds develop strategies to survive control. For decades, the dominating method to manage weeds was the use of chemical herbicides. Weeds becoming resistant against these chemical herbicides is an obvious and global reaction; together with undesired environmental consequences, this creates increasing pressure to overcome chemical herbicide use. Therefore, foreseeing weed management demands exploiting and evaluating novel methods to replace them. Since each single method will probably be less effective than chemical herbicides, systematic integration and upscaling on levels like fields, farms, cropping systems, landscapes and socio-economics is required in research. Agro-ecological management of weeds stands for this ambition.