IWM – INTEGRATED WEED

MANAGEMENT

E.JESTIN IMMANVEL RAJA

2019038032
 Weed :

 a plant out of place and not intentionally sown

 a plant growing where it is not wanted
 a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. (R.W.Emerson)
 plants that are competitive, persistent, pernicious, and interfere
negatively with human activity (Ross, et. al.)
INTEGRATED WEED MANAGEMENT

 “An integrated weed management approach to land management

combines the use of complementary weed control methods such
as grazing, herbicide application, land fallowing, and biological
control”
CROP – WEED COMPETITION
 Methods of IWM

 Indirect Methods
1) Preventive Methods
2) Cultural Methods and
ecological Methods
 Direct Methods
1) Manual Methods
2) Mechanical Methods
3) Biological control
4) Chemical control
THANK YOU