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Calopogonium for Control of Weeds in Coconut Gardens

Volume : 43
Issue: Jan-jan
Pages: 7 - 12
Published: November 06, 2023
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Abstract


One of the important problems that confront the coconut grower, is the eradication of weeds in his garden. In competing with the coconut, the weeds utilise a considerable amount of plant food and soil moisture for their own growth, thereby lessening the available supply to the coconut trees, and consequently reducing their yield to an appreciable extent. Coconut is unique in that when it begins to yield, it produces nuts all through the year, unlike many other perennials and continues its productive phase almost to its entire life period of 70-80 years. Coconut plantations in general are not manured adequately and it becomes all the more essential to make the limited plant food available reach the main crop by eliminating the unwanted weeds which deprive the palm of a fair share of its requirements.

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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