Author(s):

Samir Ranjan Biswal, Shubham Kumar Sarangi and Dr. PL Pradhan

Abstract: Excess harmful weeds are devastating problem in most of the part of India. If it is not controlled in the beginning, it will reduce the final yield as well as deteriorate in quality of the product. For this problem weeding through manual process is generally adopted. Weeding through rotary weeder is also practised now days for easy removal of weeds. In the present study a tractor operated multi row rotary weeder was considered for studying its performance on sugar cane field. The relation of row spacing with different components such as field efficiency, speed of operation, weeding efficiency and cost of operation was also studied.

DOI: 10.22271/phyto.2020.v9.i3p.11420

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