Rice production symbolizes the single largest land use for food production on the Earth. The
significance of this cereal as a source of energy and income seems overwhelming for …

Farmers' participatory field trials were conducted at Madhuban, and Taraori, the two
participatory experimental sites/locations of the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia …

Weeds are one of the key threats in sustaining the productivity of the rice-wheat crop**
system in the Indo-Gangetic Plains. The development of sound integrated weed …

Direct seeding is done by sowing of pre-germinated rice seeds under puddled condition
either manually or by drum seeding methods. Direct seeded rice (DSR) cultivation needs …

Direct seeding of rice is a promising resource conservation technology for rice-wheat
crop** system but its adoption is impeded due to heavy weed infestation. A field study was …

Poor weed management in direct-seeded rice (DSR) at crop establishment stage has led to
the need to explore different pre-emergence herbicides to reduce weed biomass and …

Resource conserving and eco-friendly interventions through improved crop establishment
are the need of time to produce more with less resources, and mitigating climatic …

Under the changing climate, fertilization regimes and weed infestation management in
aromatic direct-seeded fine rice (DSR) remain vital for curbing environmental hazards and …

Different weeding frequencies (WFs)―0WF, 2WF, 4WF, 6WF, and 8WF―were adopted in an
organic rice field to investigate their influence on weed types, rice and weed biomass, rice …

An increasing water crisis as well as shortage of farm labor farmers in many Asian regions is
forcing a shift from puddled transplanted rice to direct-seeded rice. The weeds, however, are …