CIMMYT Ethiopia
Mechanical weed control trials in Mexico
Results of agrotechnical evaluation of small-scale farm equipment in the performance of mechanical weed control in maize fields
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Published 11 Jun 2026
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CIMMYT Ethiopia
Results of agrotechnical evaluation of small-scale farm equipment in the performance of mechanical weed control in maize fields
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Effectiveness of 10 herbicides were compared during 2017 in El Batán, México. The results will be used to make recommendations to maize farmers for weed control.
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Effectiveness of 14 herbicides were compared during 2017 in El Batán, México. The results will be used to make recommendations to wheat farmers for weed control.
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Effectiveness of 14 herbicides were compared during 2017 in El Batán, México. The results will be used to make recommendations to maize farmers for weed control.
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Screening of Phalaris sp. against key herbicides. Most of the Phalaris biotypes showed varying degrees of tolerance to the tested herbicides
CIMMYT Ethiopia
Effectiveness of 14 herbicides were compared during 2016 in El Batán, México. The results will be used to make recommendations to wheat farmers for weed control.
CIMMYT Ethiopia
Effectiveness of herbicides were compared during 2016 in El Batán, México. The results will be used to make recommendations to maize farmers for weed control.
CIMMYT Ethiopia
Effectiveness of 14 herbicides were compared during 2016 in El Batán, México. The trial was set up in rainy cycle of 2016, to evaluate herbicides for developing weed management strategies for maize.
CIMMYT Ethiopia
The experiment was conducted in 2016 and 2017 in three regions in Oaxaca, Mexico. The design of the study was to evaluate fifteen combinations of tillage and weed management practices at each of the three sites, with each trial consisting of three blocks with a different type of tillage: zero tillage (ZT), minimum tillage (MT) and conventional tillage (CT). The first site is in the “Sitio Experimental Mixteca” research station in Santo Domingo Yanhuitlán, the Mixteca Region, located at 2195 m above sea level (masl), it has Vertisol soils, a temperate subhumid climate. The second site is in the town of San Felipe Zihualtepec in the municipality of San Juan Cotzocón, Papaloapan Region, located at 60 masl and has Luvisol soils, a hot humid climate. The third location was in the town of Ciénega de Zimatlán in the municipality with the same name, Valles Centrales Region. The original site was changed in 2017 to a nearby field, because the collaborating farmer did not want to continue the trial. Both fields are located at 1552 masl, have Vertisol soils, a hot semi-arid climate. Weed management treatments were conducted similarly in all tillage treatments and reflected common local practices and available herbicides or equipment, as well as weather, soil moisture and weed species and comprised combinations of the following: 1) MEC, mechanical control. Weeds were mechanically controlled after reaching 20 cm in height approximately 20-25 days after sowing (DAS), as per the common practice. Weeding was carried out with a hand hoe by 4 to 10 workers per hectare, depending on the quantity of weeds, or using a tractor-drawn cultivator. 2)PRE, pre-emergent herbicide. Only a pre-emergent herbicide with residual effect was applied before sowing. 3) POST, post-emergent herbicide. When weeds reached 5-10 cm in height and based on soil moisture conditions and the types of weeds present, a selective herbicide or direct contact herbicide was applied. 4) PRE+POST, integrated weed management. A pre-emergent herbicide was applied, followed by post-emergence control as necessary, using either selective herbicides or manual controls. 5) CONT, control: No weed management was practiced. The dataset contains the data on maize yield, weed density, weed species (broadleaf or narrowleaf) and weed biomass from the experiment.
CIMMYT Ethiopia
On-farm trials were conducted from 2016 to 2018 in four districts of Odisha (Mayurbhanj, Cuttack, Bhadrak, and Puri to evaluate the potential of dry-direct seeding of rice (DSR) in combination with integrated weed management (IWM) to reduce the yield gap and increase the income of rice farmers in Odisha where traditional practice of beushening has been practiced. The experiments were conducted in collaboration with Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), and National Rice Research Institute (NRRI). Agronomic data were collected manually from the treatments in each experiment and processed in excel file. Data on labour use, seed, cost of cultivation, grain yield, straw yield, gross income, net benefit and benefit cost ration were collected or calculated for each experiment and presented in excel file.