What are Weeds? How can we Control them

Answer: Many unwanted plants may naturally grow alongside the crop in a field. Weeds are plants that are unpleasant. Weeding is a way of controlling weeds. Tilling prior to crop planting aids in the uprooting and death of weeds, which might also dry out and combine with the soil. Weeds are also managed by the use of chemicals known as weedicides.

Weedicides can be used to control weeds: This is a chemical that is sprayed in fields to eliminate all weeds. Weedicides do not affect crops.

Tilling before planting crops also aids in weed control: Weeds are uprooted by tilling. The optimum time to remove weeds is before they blossom and generate seeds.

The manual technique of weed removal employs the use of a khurpi. It entails uprooting or cutting weeds low to the earth on a regular basis.

Manual method: walking through the field and removing weeds.

Mechanically: Using a trowel through the field to fill the space between crop rows & cut/kill any weeds.