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E3S Web Conf.
Volume 112, 2019
8th International Conference on Thermal Equipment, Renewable Energy and Rural Development (TE-RE-RD 2019)
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Article Number | 03008 | |
Number of page(s) | 8 | |
Section | Rural Development | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/201911203008 | |
Published online | 20 August 2019 |
Researches on ecological weed control in vegetable crops
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INMA, 6 Ion Ionescu de la Brad Blvd., Bucharest, 013811, Romania
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ICDPP, 8 Ion Ionescu de la Brad Blvd., Bucharest, 013813, Romania
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INCDTP, 16 Lucretiu Pătrăşcanu., Bucharest, 030508, Romania
* Corresponding author: amuscalis@yahoo.com
In recent years, intense concerns about the increasing resistance of weed populations to herbicide treatments, the low availability of bioactive ingredients for vegetable crops, as well as the expansion of organic farms for these niche crops have stimulated the development of new non-chemical methods of control or new approaches to those already used. In general, vegetable crops exhibit increased sensitivity to weeds compared to other crops. Therefore, weed control in organic vegetable crops is a real challenge for farmers, mainly using the so-called physical combat methods. Therefore, weed destruction is accomplished by using manual, mechanical, thermal or mulching means. The paper presents the preliminary experimental results obtained under laboratory conditions, referring to an innovative model of equipment for the ecological weed control in vegetable crops. It will achieve the destruction of weeds, combining the thermal method based on using hot water with the mechanical one, by equipping the machine with environmentally friendly active parts. The results obtained constitute an important premise for developing efficient equipment for the ecological weed control that can be used within integrated control systems, specific for organic onion, bean and bell pepper crops.
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