Explain CROP PROTECTION Methods??
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What is Crop Protection?
Crop protection is the general method or the practice of protecting the crop yields from different agents including pests, weeds, plant diseases, and other organisms that cause damage to the agricultural crops.
Apart from crops, agricultural fields would have weeds, small animals like rats, mites, insects, pests, disease-causing pathogens and frequently raided by birds. All these factors are mainly responsible for the loss or damage to the crops. Thus to yield high crop production, farmers need to protect the crop from these pests. Hence crop protection management is important before, during and after the cultivation.
What are the methods of crop protection
There are many crop protection tools and practices, which farmers can implement to increase the success of their crops.
Crop protection before and during the cultivation
Crop protection before & during the cultivation
Weed Management
Weeds are unwanted plants growing along with the crops. These undesirable plants, steal the nutrients, sunlight, water and other resources from the crops and affect their growth, which results in the undernourished of crops and decreases the yields. To safeguard the productivity of crops, farmers remove these weeds by a process called weeding.
Weeding is the process of controlling the growth of weeds. There are various methods of weeding:
Spraying weedicides on the weeds
Manually plucking the weeds by hands
Removing weeds by trowel and harrow
Ploughing the field to remove the weeds even before sowing the seeds
Few examples of weeds are Amaranthus, Cyperinus rotundus, Bermuda grass, etc.
Apart from weeding, Herbicides – a chemical substance also play an important role in controlling the growth of the weeds and also help in preventing soil erosion and water loss.
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