Question

how will protect your crop from pests weeds​

Answer 1

Crop Protection

• To get maximum yield and profit from his farm, a farmer has to minimize his crop loss.

• This depends upon proper and sustainable agricultural practices.

1. Crop Protection from Pests

• Crop Protection is a general practice of Managing, Protecting and Improving Crops from pests and plant diseases using bio-control agents like herbicides.
• Crops are frequently raided by rats, insects, birds, etc... They ruin the whole crop and eat-up a large portion of grains. If they are left unchecked, Yield can reduce by 30% to 50%
• Spraying Insecticides and pesticides help minimize crop loss due to pests.
• Neem oil is used as a natural alternative against chemicals.

2. Crop Protection from Weeds

• Weeds are unwanted plants growing along the crops.
• They steal the Soil Nutrients, Water, Sunlight, Fertilizers and other resources from the crops and affect their Growth.
• This results in undernourished crops and decreases the yield.
• Hence, Farmers remove Weeds by Spraying Weedicides, Manually plucking weeds, Removing weeds by Trowel and Harrow, Ploughing the field to remove weeds even before sowing seeds.
• apart from weeding, Herbicides are sprayed that play a important role in controlling the growth of weeds.

Answer 2

• 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

Weeding is the process of controlling the growth of weeds.

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