Claim · model-written summary
Hand weeding may be used where labor is cheap and plentiful.
- Taxon
- groundnut
Arachis hypogaeat0 - Outcome
- Hand weeding though may be usede0
- Qualifier
- where labour is cheap and not scarcee0
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Verbatim
e0“Hand weeding though may be used where labour is cheap and not scarce as opposed to the herbicides.”
t0“Groundnut Production Intensification”
Title
Assessing Herbicide Use and Hand Weeding Efficacy in Groundnut Production Intensification
Paul Anguria; Essegbemon Akpo; Chris O. Ojiewo; et al. Journal of Agricultural Science 2025. doi:10.5539/jas.v17n4p69
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect The sequential herbicides produced superior pod yield of 1724.3 kg/ha.
- Intervention effect The sequential herbicides yielded the lowest grass weed density at 0.62.
- Intervention effect The sequential herbicides yielded the lowest sedge density at 0.61.
- Intervention effect The sequential herbicides produced the lowest weed biomass at harvest, 122.5g.
- Intervention effect The sequential herbicides gave the highest weed control efficiency at 69.65%.
- Intervention effect The sequential herbicides gave the highest net returns at 7,937,746UGX/ha.
- Intervention effect Sole post-emergence quizalofop-p-ethyl produced the highest benefit-to-cost ratio of 36.49.
- Recommendation The authors recommend sequential glyphosate and quizalofop-p-ethyl as most profitable.
- Recommendation The authors identify sole post-emergence quizalofop-p-ethyl as most economical.