Chemical weed control - today and in the future
2006
Adamczewski, K.,Instytut Ochrony Roslin, Poznan (Poland) | Dobrzanski, A.,Instytut Warzywnictwa, Skierniewice (Poland)
This paper discusses some of the recent developments in herbicides discovery, technology and fate, and sketches important future developments. The introduction of two selective herbicides in the late 1940s and constant flow of new herbicides in the succeeding decades provided farmers with a new tool, putting them in a position to consider weed control more independent of crop production system than hitherto. In the 1980s, the publics concern about side effects of herbicides on the environment and human health resulted in increasingly strict registration requirements and reduce the use of herbicides. Today, the number of new herbicides being introduced has decreased significantly and integrated weed management has become the guiding concept
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