Weed control in certain crops planted in sugar cane interrows in Mauritius
| MSI99P1032 | |
| Mc Intyre, G. | |
| Weed control in certain crops planted in sugar cane interrows in Mauritius | |
| Richardson, R. G. (ed.), Proceedings of the First International Weed Control Congress, held at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, 17-21 February 1992. Vol. 2 : Submitted papers and poster summaries | |
| Book chapter | |
| 1992 | |
| p. 323-325 | |
| 0 9599210 4 4 | |
| Melbourne, Australia, Weed Science Society of Victoria, Inc | |
| En | |
| En | |
| Mauritius is a land deficit island where 93 per cent of the total cultivated area is under sugar cane. To increase food crop production, sugar cane interrows and land in rotation between two cane crop cycles are mainly used for the cultivation of potato, maize and groundnut. The level of weed control under such mixed cropping sometimes inadequate because of the reduced rates of herbicides used in these vulnerable crops. Control of perennial weeds is hampered because the herbicides normally used for their control are not selective in these three food crops. Furthermore, most of the chemicals used in these crops are more expensive than those used in sugar cane. Remedies include the practice of separately spraying sugar cane, either with a higher rate of the food crop herbicide, or with a different, cheaper one . Control of certain tenacious weeds remains unsolved. | |
| WEED CONTROL WEEDS HERBICIDES SUGARCANE INTERCROPPING MAIZE POTATOES | |
| MAURITIUS | |
| Sugarcane: Weeds, weed control and management | |
| 1992-07-06 | |
| En | |
| Mauritius Sugar Industry Research Institute | |
| COWA | |
| 1 | |
| COWA |