Explain five reasons for controlling weeds.

      

Explain five reasons for controlling weeds.

  

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Kavungya
- Avoid weeds which compete with crop nutrients, space, light and soil moisture.
- Remove parasite weeds like the witch weed.
- Improve the quality of produce which can be reduced by presence of weed seeds, and bad weed smells
- Avoid farm poisoning by poisonous weeds like thorn apple.
- To control some pests which can be hosted by some weeds.
- To allow better crop germination by removing weeds that are allelopathic.
- Open irrigation channels
- improves the quality of pastures
- Ease work by killing irritating weeds.
Kavungya answered the question on June 13, 2019 at 08:42


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