Increasing fertility - preventive measures for weed control
Weeds - This is a category of plants, the appearance of which is always undesirable in areas of soil cultivated by humans. It is not easy to remove many of these plants from the existing territory where they have already penetrated, although various methods of control are used. How to be in such cases? We will listen to the opinion of professionals.
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Control over the purity of the seed
To effectively control weeds, it is easiest to prevent them from entering the soil. This preliminary work is carried out by controlling the cleanliness. seed, which are prepared for lees. This is especially important when it comes to planting large areas. Seeds on such areas, it is necessary to carefully check and discard the trapped weed material. Otherwise, you can clog the entire area with certain types of weeds and it will be quite problematic to remove them.
Such control in most cases is carried out thanks to special agricultural organizations dealing with these problems closely. The main specialists in this matter are agronomists working in rural areas. Thanks to them, the selection of clean material for planting and rejection of weed seeds is carried out.
It is important to deal with this issue in a timely manner, since accidentally trapped in the soil the seeds weeds can clog it. Many of the weeds are quite difficult to remove from their soil, so it is better to prevent their penetration in advance than to fight them later.
To prevent the penetration of weeds and their seeds to other soil areas, the process of the accepted alternation of cultivated plants in crop rotation should be observed.
This will help not only suppress the harmful weeds in the soil, but also significantly affect the increase yield data of cultivated plants.
Quality control measures for seeds:
- In order for the control over the purity of seeds of cultivated plants to be most effective, its activities should be carried out regularly, observing certain periods.
- To carry out these activities, a special inspection is often created, which monitors the quality of seeds prepared for planting.
- To increase the percentage of purity of the inoculum, laboratory specialists are often involved in control over it. Under special conditions, they conduct a detailed analysis of the seed material and discard all suspicious particles that were in it.
- After that, certain papers are written on the checked seeds of cultivated plants, where the data of the control carried out are indicated.
This is necessary for the supply of these seeds to other organizations, as required by the requirements of the state standard. It is thanks to them that detailed control over the quality of the supplied seed material is carried out.
Introduction of quarantine
Quarantine is one of the important preventive weed control measures. The essence of this measure is to exclude the importation of seed containing weeds on the territory of other farms.Quarantine is often introduced as a restriction on the import of goods from one subject of the country to another. Quarantine can also be imposed on goods imported from neighboring countries.
Thanks to this method, many types of weeds are prevented from entering the territory of other farms.
In our country, there are two main types of quarantine measures:
- External
- Internal
Both methods are equally effective and work together. In order to carry out these activities, a special quarantine inspection has been created. With its help, the import of many weed-infested seed cargo was stopped. For example, many agricultural workers are grateful to the external quarantine imposed on some types of weeds, since thanks to it their lands were not infested with malicious weeds.
Internal quarantine activities also help to limit the spread of known weed species throughout the country.
The import restrictions imposed on time have yielded positive results in many regions of Russia. This applies not only to small entrepreneurs, but also to large farms.
Other ways to fight
The fight against harmful weeds often takes place with the use of special grain harvesting equipment, adapted to be removed from the general mass seed weeds. This greatly facilitates the work of people. In addition, weed control measures cover the destruction of their seedlings in the slurry, as well as water.
If, due to some conditions, weed seeds have penetrated into the seed material of cultivated plants, then such material no longer goes for planting.
It is either steamed, or grinded and fed to animals. Thus, the animals will be fed and the fields will not be littered.
Another way to deal with weeds is the method based on mowing them on the roadside. This helps prevent weeds from spreading deep into the fields with crops of grain crops. Also, when preventing weeds from clogging up crops, it is necessary to monitor the condition of the areas used by private traders. Sometimes everything grows on them except cultivated plants. Such areas are often heavily weedy, the seeds which by the wind or with the help of animals, can get to other land plots.
The timing of the sowing is of great importance in the fight against the spread of weeds. In many farms of our country, agronomists use complex conditions that contribute to the emergence of friendly seedlings.
This includes:
- Compliance with sowing dates
- Embedment depth
- Seeding rate alignment
- Use of innovative technologies
Together, all these measures prevent the appearance and dominance of weeds on land plots.
Cleaning harvest can also affect the further maintenance of weed seeds in the soil. Sometimes the crop is harvested early, and the field is still plowed and the weeds on it begin to grow, bloom and form seeds. This is how weed seeds accumulate in the soil. To prevent this, you should plow the area in a timely manner. All the measures described help to rid the areas of the penetration and spread of weed seeds. By following these methods, your land will always be clean without unnecessary hassle.
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