Effect of tillage and soil cover on weeds in small holder conservation agricultural system / (Record no. 39601)
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| Original cataloging agency | LC |
| Language of cataloging | ENG |
| Transcribing agency | LC |
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| Edition number | 23rd. |
| Classification number | 631.53 |
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| Personal name | Otim, Godfrey Anyoni |
| 9 (RLIN) | 64148 |
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| Title | Effect of tillage and soil cover on weeds in small holder conservation agricultural system / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Otim,Godfrey Anyoni |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xviii. 203 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustration ; |
| Dimensions | 30 cm. |
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| General note | Include bibliographical references |
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| Formatted contents note | Ch 1: Introduction - -<br/>1.0 Introduction - -<br/>1.1 Background of the study - -<br/>1.1.1 Historical and contextual background - -<br/>1.1.2. Small holder farmer - -<br/>1.1.3 Conservation agriculture (ca) and its principles - -<br/>1.1.4. Soil weed seed bank - -<br/>1.1.5 Integrated weed management in conservation agriculture - -<br/>1.2 Statement of the problem - -<br/>1.3 Justification of the study - -<br/>1.4 Objectives of the study - -<br/>1.4.1 Major objective - -<br/>1.4.2 Specific objectives - -<br/>1.5 Research hypothesis - -<br/>1.6 Definition of key terms - -<br/>1.6.1 Conservation agriculture - -<br/>1.6.2 Soil cover - -<br/>1.6.3 Soil seed bank or weed seed bank - -<br/>1.6.4 Minimum tillage (mt) - -<br/>1.6.5 Integrated weed management - -<br/>1.6.6 Ecological weed management - -<br/>1.6.7 Hand weeding - -<br/>1.6.8 Hand hoeing - -<br/>1.6.9 Intercropping - -<br/>1.6.10 Mowing - -<br/>1.6.11 Cutting - -<br/>1.6.12 Dredging and chaining - -<br/>1.7 Conceptual framework - -<br/>1.8. Philosophical under pinning of this research - -<br/>Ch 2: Literature review - -<br/>2.0 Introduction - -<br/>2.1 Climate change - -<br/>2.2 Conservation agriculture for sustainability (energy use efficiency and soil health) - -<br/>2.2.1 Relating conservation agriculture with the soil seed bank - -<br/>2.2.2 Crop performance and yield under CA - -<br/>2.2.3 Mechanization of conservation agriculture - -<br/>2.2.4 CA policy and institutional support implications for developing countries - -<br/>2.2.5 Effect of CA on soil health - -<br/>2.2.6. Effect of CA on weeds - -<br/>2.3 Weed ecology - -<br/>2.4 Weed dynamics - -<br/>2.5 Weed management - -<br/>2.5.1 Mechanical and manual weed control - -<br/>2.5.2 Cultural weed control - -<br/>2.5.3 Chemical weed management - -<br/>2.5.4 Preventive weed management - -<br/>2.5.5. Herbicide tolerant crops (HTC) - -<br/>2.5.6 Biological weed control - -<br/>2.6 Integrated weed management in CA - -<br/>2.7. Soil seed banks - -<br/>2.8 Estimation of the soil seed bank - -<br/>2.9.0 Effect of crop management practice on weeds and crop yield - -<br/>2.9.1 Effect of tillage practice on weeds - -<br/>2.9.2 Effect of soil cover on weeds - -<br/>2.9.3 Effect of intercropping on crop yield and performance - -<br/>2.9.4 Yield and weed response to diversified crop rotations - -<br/>2.9.5 Integrated weed management in perspective - -<br/>2.9.6 Conclusion and future prospect of ca for Uganda - -<br/><br/>Chapter three: research methodology - -<br/>3.1 objective 1. To compare three seed bank estimation techniques for detecting treatment<br/>Differences and determining seed density and species composition - -<br/>3.1.1 Introduction - -<br/>3.1.2 Study site - -<br/>3.1.3 Materials - -<br/>3.1.4 Experimental design and layout - -<br/>3.1.5 Data collection - -<br/>3.1.6 Statistical analysis - -<br/>3.2 Objective 2: to determine the effect of tillage practice on weed density, diversity and<br/>Crop performance - -<br/>3.2.1 Materials - -<br/>3.2.2 Methods: experimental design and crop management - -<br/>3.2.3 Data collection - -<br/>3.2.3.1 Weed density - -<br/>3.2.3.2 Weed community - -<br/>3.2.3.3 Leaf area index (lai) and plant height (cm) - -<br/>3.2.3.4 Stand count - -<br/>3.2.3.5 Days to 50% flowering - -<br/>3.2.3.6 plant height - -<br/>3.2.3.7 Pod number - -<br/>3.2.3.8 Pod length - -<br/>3.2.3.9 Disease and pest incidence - -<br/>3.2.3.10 Grain yield - -<br/>3.2.3.11 Rainfall (mm) and daily temperature (OC) - -<br/>3.2.3.12 Data sheet - -<br/>3.2.3.13 Global positioning system receiver (GPS receiver) - -<br/>3.2.14 Statistical analysis - -<br/>3.3 Objective 3: to determine the effect of soil cover on weed density, diversity and crop<br/>Performance - -<br/>3.3.1 Materials - -<br/>3.3.2 Methods: experimental design and crop management - -<br/>3.3.3 Data collection - -<br/>3.3.4 Statistical analysis - -<br/>3.4 Objective 4: to determine the effect of the intercrops on overall crop performance in<br/>Conservation agricultural systems - -<br/>3.4.1 Materials - -<br/>3.4.2 Methods experimental design and crop management - -<br/>3.4.3 Data collection - -<br/>3.4.4 Data analysis - -<br/>3.5 Ethical consideration - -<br/>3.6 Limitation of the study - -<br/>Ch:4 Result Presentations, analysis and discussion of findings - -<br/>4.0 Comparison of three soil seed bank estimation techniques for detecting treatment<br/>differences and determining seed density and species composition - -<br/>4.1.1 Introduction - -<br/>4.1.2 Comparison of the three soil seed bank estimation methods to measure soil seed<br/>bank weed density - -<br/>4.1.2 Comparison of the three soil seed bank estimation methods to measure weed<br/>diversity - -<br/>4.1.3 Effect of tillage and soil cover on soil seed bank - -<br/>4.1.4 Effect of season on soil seed bank density - -<br/>4.1.5 Effect of season on soil seed bank diversity - -<br/>4.1.6 Discussion for the comparison of three soil seed bank estimation techniques for<br/>detecting treatment differences and determining soil seed density and diversity - -<br/>4.1.7 Conclusion - -<br/>4.2 Effect of tillage practice on weed density, diversity and crop performance - -<br/>4.2.1 Introduction - -<br/>4.2.2. Effect of rainfall amount and number of rainy days on weed density and diversity - -<br/>4.2.3 Effect of tillage practice on weed density - -<br/>4.2.4 Effect of tillage practice on weed diversity using shannon weiner index - -<br/>4.2.5 Effect of tillage practice on weed diversity using simpsons diversity index - -<br/>4.2.6 Effect of tillage practice on yield - -<br/>4.2.7 Effect of tillage practice x soil cover practice x season interaction on above ground<br/>weed density - -<br/>4.2.8 Effect of tillage practice x soil cover practice x season interaction on above ground<br/>weed diversity - -<br/>4.2.9 Discussion and conclusion objective 2 - -<br/>4.3 Effect of soil cover practice on weed density, diversity and crop performance - -<br/>4.3.1 Introduction - - <br/>4.3.3 Effect of soil cover practice on above ground weed density - -<br/>4.3.4 Effect of soil cover practice on weed diversity using shannon weiner index - -<br/>4.3.5 Effect of soil cover practice on weed diversity using simpsons diversity index - -<br/>4.3.6 Effect of soil cover practice on yield - -<br/>4.3.7 Discussion objective 3 - -<br/>4.3.8 Conclusion objective 3 - -<br/>4.4 Effect of intercropping on overall crop performance under ca system - -<br/>4.4.1 Introduction - -<br/>4.4.2 Effect of intercropping on maize yield - -<br/>4.4.3 Effect of intercropping on soybean yield - -<br/>4.4.4 Land equivalence ratio (LER) - -<br/>4.4.5 Effect of intercropping on key maize crop growth parameters - -<br/>4.4.6 Discussion - -<br/>4.4.7 Conclusion - -<br/>Ch 5: Implication of the study - -<br/>Ch 6: Conclusion and recommendation - -<br/> |
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| Source of heading or term | Soil |
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| Source of heading or term | Weeds |
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