Authors : S. S. Dudhe, P. D. Khirade, N. S. Dudhe
Page Nos : 219-224
Description :
Chandrapur district of Maharashtra state is the most popular for the forest; despite of that agriculture continues to be the most important sector of villagers for their livelihood and generating economy, as well as providing employment to the labors and farmers. But now a day’s weed invading largely in agriculture land and at the present movement weeding is the drudgery for farmers due to availability of agriculture labour, expensive, time consuming by hand weeding. Research in weeding has investigated various techniques varying from mechanical, chemical and biological techniques. Despite the fact that chemical method have produced excellent results. The agrochemical 2, 4- D (2,4- Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) proved to be most efficient weed controller in agriculture land of broad leaved weeds, the agrochemical 2, 4-D has low to moderate acute toxicity towards animals and humans
