Claim · model-written summary
Weed infestation in cowpea is more severe during the initial 5-8 weeks.
- Taxon
- cowpea
Vigna unguiculatae0 - Interactor
- weede0weed
- Outcome
- weed infestatione0
- Direction
- more severee0
- Value
- 5-8 weekse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the problem of weed infestation in cowpea is more severe at the initial period (5-8 weeks)”
Title
Weed Management in Cowpea-A Review
Taramani Yadav Nisha, K. Chopra; N.K. Chopra M.R. Yadav; Rakesh Kumar D.K. Rathore; et al. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 2017. doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2017.602.156
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Association Weeds reduce cowpea yield by 12.7 to 60.0% depending on location, soil, varieties and management.
- Recommendation Chemical weed control alone or with manual weeding is presented as the most promising cowpea control approach.
- Intervention effect Intercropping cowpea with other legumes and cereals reduced weeds and raised grain and dry fodder yield relative to sole cropping.
- Intervention effect Integrated production technologies enhanced cowpea productivity.
- Intervention effect Integrated production technologies brought higher net returns to cowpea farmers.