Cultural Practices

  •  Plough the field by rotavator or cultivator to get a fine tilth
  • Remove the weeds and crop stubbles before proper leveling for uniform germination and crop stand.
  • In heavily infested areas, adopt a stale seedbed technique.
  • Recommended crop rotation
    1. Rice- blackgram/sesame to control Echinochloa colona and Cyperus difformis infestation, OR
    2. Intercropping of rice-groundnut/ blackgram/ greengram reduce the weed pressure in rainfed uplands, OR
    3. Upland rice-sesamum - pigeon-pea - rice-horsegram (3 years’ rotation helps to reduce weed pressure, OR
    4. Growing of cowpea as cover crops helps to reduce the early infestation of grassy weeds