Weed management in Conservation Agriculture systems

Description

There remains considerable uncertainty surrounding the future of effective weed control in agriculture, particularly due to the environmental impact of herbicides, as well as increasing levels of herbicide resistance. In Conservation Agriculture (CA) systems where ploughing has been replaced with no-tillage systems, weed management without reliance on herbicides has proven to be even more challenging.

Weed management in Conservation Agriculture systems reviews the range of alternative, non-chemical methods of weed control which can be implemented to improve the productivity and sustainability of CA. These methods include cultural and biological techniques such as allelopathy and thermal weed control. The book also assesses ways of optimising weed control in perennial, horticultural and other crops.

With its detailed exploration of weed management in specific production systems, as well as the range of weed management techniques available, the book provides its readers with the means necessary to implement more sustainable methods of weed control that protect both yields and the environment.

Table of contents

• 1.Weed ecology in Conservation Agriculture systems: an overview: Seyed Vahid Eslami, University of Birjand, Iran; Carol C. Baskin and Jerry M. Baskin, University of Kentucky, USA;
• 2.Modeling weed population dynamics in conservation agriculture systems: Jose L. Gonzalez-Andujar, Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (CSIC), Spain; and Cesar Fernandez-Quintanilla, Instituto de Ciencia Agrarias (CSIC), Spain;

Part 1 Cultural, physical and chemical weed management techniques

• 3.Cultural techniques to control weeds in Conservation Agriculture systems: Francisco Skora Neto, No-till Brazilian Federation (FEBRAPDP)/formerly Agronomic Institute of Parana (IAPAR), Brazil;
• 4.Allelopathic weed control in Conservation Agriculture systems: Omer Farooq and Sami Ul-Allah, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan; Amar Matloob, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Pakistan; Mubshar Hussain, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan; and Muhammad Farooq, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman;
• 5.Thermal weed control in Conservation Agriculture: Bernhard Streit and Martin V. Bauer, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland;
• 6.Using herbicides in Conservation Agriculture systems: the state of the art: Per Kudsk, Aarhus University, Denmark;
• 7.Advances in the reduction of herbicide use in Conservation Agriculture: French case studies: Stéphane Cordeau, Maé Guinet, Nicolas Munier-Jolain, and Guillaume Adeux, Université de Bourgogne Europe, Institut Agro, INRAE, Agroécologie, France; and Violaine Deytieux, INRAE, U2E, Unité Expérimentale du domaine d’Epoisses, France;

Part 2 Weed management in specific production systems

• 8.Weed management in perennial Conservation Agriculture systems: optimising use of groundcover: Emilio J. Gonzalez-Sanchez, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain; Julio Roman-Vazquez, European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF), Belgium; Oscar Veroz-Gonzalez, Asociación Española Agricultura de Conservación Suelos Vivos, Spain; Rosa Carbonell-Bojollo, IFAPA Centro Alameda del Obispo, Spain; Francisco Marquez-Garcia, Antonio M. Conde-Lopez and Miguel A. Repullo-Ruiberriz de Torres, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain; Manuel Moreno-Garcia and Rafaela Ordoñez-Fernandez, IFAPA Centro Alameda del Obispo, Spain; and Jesus A. Gil-Ribes, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain;
• 9.Weed management in no-tillage vegetable cultivation: using the Sistema de Plantio Direto de Hortaliças to achieve an agroecological transition: Marcelo Zanella and Darlan Rodrigo Marchesi, Agricultural Research and Rural Extension Company of Santa Catarina (EPAGRI), Brazil; Arcângelo Loss and Guilherme Wilbert Ferreira, Federal University of Santa Catarina State (UFSC), Brazil; and Jamil Abdalla Fayad, Agricultural Research and Rural Extension Senior, Brazil;
• 10.Weed management in organic Conservation Agriculture systems: Paolo Bàrberi, Stefano Carlesi and Federico Leoni, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy;
• 11.Weed management in Conservation Agriculture-based production of annual crops: AAdemir Calegari, Instituto Agronômico do Paraná (IAPAR), Brazil; Telmo Jorge Carneiro Amado, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil; Rolf Derpsch, Consultant (formerly GTZ), Germany; Ray Archuleta, USDA-ARS, USA; Martin Cubilla, FEPASIDAS, Paraguay; Frédéric Thomas, Farmer, France; Sergio Argenteri, Farmer, Italy; Fabricio Krzyzaniak, Agronomist Consultant, Paraguay; Kleso Silva Franco Junior, University CESEP, Brazil; Donizeti Aparecido Fornarolli, Consultant, Brazil; Benedito Noedi Rodrigues, Instituto Agronômico do Paraná (IAPAR), Brazil; Ronaldo Hissayuki Hojo, Regional Development Institute – Paraná, Brazil; Ken Moriya, FEPASIDAS/Agriculture Ministry, Paraguay; Cassio Egidio Cavenaghi Pretes, Londrina State University, Brazil; and Danilo Rheinheimer dos Santos, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil;
• 12.Weed management in Conservation Agriculture systems: farmers’ testimonies: Gottlieb Basch, Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development (MED) – Universidade de Évora, Portugal; Søren Ilsøe, Knudstrupgaard Farm, Denmark; Miguel Barnuevo-Rocko, Finca Munibañez s/n Chinchilla, Spain; Anderson Schmitz, Schmitz Family Farm, Brazil; Marcelo Zanella, Agricultural Research and Rural Extension Company of Santa Catarina (EPAGRI), Brazil; Benjamin Dias Osorio Filho, Chalé do Seival/State University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Luiz Antônio Pradella, Pradella Group, Brazil; Valmor dos Santos, Inovação Agrícola, Brazil; Corey Loessin, Aidra Farms Ltd, Canada; and Marie Luise Carolina Bartz, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil/University of Coimbra, Portugal;