About Weed, Impact and management Methods

What is Weed?

Weed is plant or vegetation that grows in a field along with crop or weed we can say that an unwanted and undesirable plant in the crop which uses the land and water resources for their growth and development. Consumption of weeds can affects human health.

Summer Weed

The growth of weed is not desirable in the monoculture system. These undesired plants deplete the nutrients; water and space allotted for the intended crop, and finally cause a huge reduction in crop yield.

Weed Management

Weed

Wheat is an important cereal crop. Here some generally weeds grown in field Anagallis arvensis (Krishananeel कृष्‍णनील), Argemone mexicana (Satyanashi सत्‍यानाशी), Asphodelus tenuifolius (Piazzi प्‍याजी), Avena ludoviciana (Jangli Jai जंगली जंई), Cannabis sativa (Bhang भांग), Carthamus oxycantha (Pohli पोहली), Chenopodium album (Bathu बथुआ), Cirsium arvense (Kateli कटैहली), Convolvulus arvensis (Hirankhuri हि‍रनखुरी), Corpus Didymus (Pitpapra पीतपापडा), Euphorbia jelioscopia (Dudhi दुधी), Fumaria parviflora (Gajri गाजरी), Lathyrus aphaca (Matri मटरी), Malva parviflora (Gogisag गोगीसाग), Medicago denticulata (Maina मैना), Melilotus alba (Metha मेथा), Phalaris minor (Mandushi/Gulidanda मंडूशी), Poa annua (Poa ghas पौघास), Polygonum plebejum (Raniphul रानीफूल), Polypogon monspeliensis (Lomar ghas लोमरघास), Rumex retroflex (Jangli palak जंगली पालक), Spergula arvensis (Bandhania वनधनि‍या), Vicia sativa (Chatri/Gegla गेला) are weeds which affect the production of crop and decrease the quality