Idioma:

increasing importance of herbicides in worldwide crop production

Gianessi, Leonard P

Pest management science, 2013-10, Vol.69 (10), p.1099-1105 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Texto completo disponível

Citações Citado por

Enviar para

Título:
increasing importance of herbicides in worldwide crop production
Autor: Gianessi, Leonard P
Assuntos: Agricultural production ; Agriculture ; Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions ; Biological and medical sciences ; Crop yield ; Crops, Agricultural - drug effects ; Crops, Agricultural - growth & development ; Developing countries ; Environmental conditions ; environmental factors ; fuels ; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology ; greenhouse gas emissions ; Herbicides ; Herbicides - pharmacology ; labor ; LDCs ; maize ; Parasitic plants. Weeds ; people ; Phytopathology. Animal pests. Plant and forest protection ; rice ; rural areas ; tillage ; Urban areas ; weed control ; Weed Control - methods ; Weed Control - trends ; Weeds ; wheat ; yields
É parte de: Pest management science, 2013-10, Vol.69 (10), p.1099-1105
Notas: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ps.3598
ArticleID:PS3598
ark:/67375/WNG-BQK4DGM4-2
istex:3333A8A50FE560E931D4B851B2BACFD14103A750
ObjectType-Article-2
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-3
content type line 23
ObjectType-Review-1
ObjectType-Feature-1
Descrição: Herbicide use is increasingly being adopted around the world. Many developing countries (India, China, Bangladesh) are facing shortages of workers to hand weed fields as millions of people move from rural to urban areas. In these countries, herbicides are far cheaper and more readily available than labor for hand weeding. History shows that in industrializing countries in the past, including the United States, Germany, Japan and South Korea, the same phenomenon has occurred—as workers have left agriculture, herbicides have been adopted. It is inevitable that herbicide use will increase in sub‐Saharan Africa, not only because millions of people are leaving rural areas, creating shortages of hand weeders, but also because of the need to increase crop yields. Hand weeding has never been a very efficient method of weed control—often performed too late and not frequently enough. Uncontrolled weeds have been a major cause of low crop yields in sub‐Saharan Africa for a long time. In many parts of the world, herbicides are being increasingly used to replace tillage in order to improve environmental conditions. In comparison with tillage, herbicide use reduces erosion, fuel use, greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient run‐off and conserves water. © 2013 Society of Chemical Industry
Editor: Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Idioma: Inglês

Links

Voltar para lista de resultados

Realização: Logos de Redes Sociais:

increasing importance of herbicides in worldwide crop production

Gianessi, Leonard P

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Buscando em bases de dados remotas. Favor aguardar.