{"id":1007,"date":"2017-11-09T11:21:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T10:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2017-11-09T11:21:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T10:21:59","slug":"weed-control-under-conservation-agriculture-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2017\/11\/09\/weed-control-under-conservation-agriculture-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Weed control under conservation agriculture in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><figure id=\"attachment_1008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1008\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1008 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inra.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/11\/lee-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/11\/lee-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/11\/lee.jpg 653w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture copyright Lee and Thierfelder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Under conservation agriculture, low biomass production impairs the permanent soil cover and thus limits its usual weed-suppressing benefits. Smallholders farmers must, therefore, find other methods of weed control. Scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s13593-017-0453-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee and Thierfelder<\/a> reviewed the applicability of strategies available to smallholder farmers in rainfed dryland areas of southern Africa. They found that a combination of strategies and further research into new technologies, such as weed steaming, could help farmers to better address weed management challenges.<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1007\/s13593-017-0453-7'   ><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under conservation agriculture, low biomass production impairs the permanent soil cover and thus limits its usual weed-suppressing benefits. Smallholders farmers must, therefore, find other methods of weed control. Scientists Lee and Thierfelder reviewed the applicability of strategies available to smallholder farmers in rainfed dryland areas of southern Africa. They found that a combination of strategies &#8230; <a title=\"Weed control under conservation agriculture in Africa\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/2017\/11\/09\/weed-control-under-conservation-agriculture-in-africa\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Weed control under conservation agriculture in Africa\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crop-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/agronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}