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Handbook of Sustainable Weed Management (Paperback)
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Handbook of Sustainable Weed Management (Paperback)
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Innovative Strategies for Managing Weeds in an Environmentally
Protective Manner Successfully meeting the challenge of providing
weed control without relying on dangerous chemicals that endanger
the ecosystem or human lives, this compendium focuses on management
strategies that reduce herbicidal usage, restore ecological
balance, and increase food production. It also provides new
insights and approaches for weed scientists, agronomists,
agriculturists, horticulturists, farmers, and extentionists, as
well as teachers and students. In the Handbook of Sustainable Weed
Management, experts from Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia
organize in one resource information related to weeds and their
management from different ecosystems around the world that has been
until now been scattered throughout the literature.. The text
captures the multifaceted impacts of and approaches to managing
weeds from field, farm, landscape, regional, and global
perspectives. Generously illustrated with tables and figures, this
book not only describes the various techniques for weed management
but shows you what methods work best in a given region, or in
response to a specific, invasive weed or invaded crop. Covering the
full scope of modern weed science the handbook examines different
aspects of weed management, including- * Cultural practices * Cover
crops * Crop rotation designs * Potential of herbicide resistant
crops * Bioherbicides * Allelopathy * Microorganisms * Integrated
weed management In spite of advancement in technologies and
procedures, weeds continue to pose a major ecological and
economical threat to agriculture. Handbook of Sustainable Weed
Management takes a broad view of weeds as a part of an agricultural
system composed of interacting production, environmental,
biological, economic, and social components all working together to
find balance. This comprehensive book is a vital addition to the
debate over how global weed management is changing in the 21st
century. Also available in soft cover
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