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Collaborative project: Optimisation of chemical-mechanical and mechanical weed control in row crops - subproject 4 (OptiKult)
Project
Project code: 2819114219
Contract period: 08.02.2021
- 07.02.2024
Budget: 180,719 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: resource protection, resource efficiency, crop production, crop production, maize, agricultural engineering, sugar beet, precision farming, weed
Chemical crop protection significantly contributes to efficient plant production. In row crops with slow early growth such as maize and sugar beet, effective weed control is a key factor for high and stable yield. In the context of integrated crop protection, the need for efficient non-chemical and combined chemical-non-chemical techniques of weed control is increasing, which offer the potential for significantly reduced application rates of herbicides up to their complete replacement. Today, camera guided machine hoeing between plant rows is the most advanced technical alternative to full-area spraying of herbicides. Weeds in the rows ar controlled either manually or by band spraying. Despite significant progress, such technologies still face considerable problems. The main problems that need to be addressed are crop and weed plant identification at early stages, the use of suitable mechanical actors, the low working speed and the associated very low area performance, as well as the unsatisfactory working quality and effectiveness of the techniques in unfavorable operating conditions. Our project aims to develop, test and evaluate a range of alternative techniques for mechanical weed control allowing diminishing or completely replacing herbicide application. It focuses on herbicide band-spraying with a field sprayer and in-row weeding based on defined seed placement.
Section overview
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- Crop Protection
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Associated projects: OptiKult
- Collaborative project: Optimisation of chemical-mechanical and mechanical weed control in row crops - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Optimisation of chemical-mechanical and mechanical weed control in row crops - subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Optimisation of chemical-mechanical and mechanical weed control in row crops - subproject 3
