Crop yield and weed management in rainfed conservation agriculture

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 117, Issue , 2011, Pages 172-183

  Farooq, M ^a,b   Flower, K C ^a   Jabran, K ^b   Wahid, A ^b   Siddique, Kadambot H M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Allelopathy; Herbicide resistance; No tillage; Rainfall; Soil compaction

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC STRESS; ALLELOPATHY; CONSERVATION AGRICULTURES; CONVENTIONAL TILLAGE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; HERBICIDE RESISTANCE; LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY; NO TILLAGE; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECT; RAIN-FED SYSTEM; RAINFED; RESIDUE COVER; SOIL COMPACTION; SOIL DISTURBANCES; SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS RESEARCH; WEED MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; CULTIVATION; HERBICIDES; RAIN; SOIL MECHANICS; VARIABLE SPEED TRANSMISSIONS; WEED CONTROL;

CROPS;

CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; DISTURBANCE; HERBICIDE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; RAINFALL; RAINFED AGRICULTURE; SUSTAINABILITY; WEED CONTROL;

EID: 79960242930     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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