Weed management in lowland rice production is a major constraint leading to low yields. Studies were conducted during the wet cropping seasons of 2009 and 2010 at Rokupr Agricultural Research Centre (RARC) in the lowland ecology to assess the competitiveness of different rice var...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2013/2791
Two rice varieties, NERICA L19 (weed competitive) and ROK10 (high yielding) were subjected to two pre-emergence (RiceForce and ButaForce) and two post-emergence (Stam and RiceForce) with different active ingredients and rates of application during the wet seasons of 2009 and 2010...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2012/1611
Thirteen rice varieties cultivated in Sierra Leone were used to examine varietal differences in radiosensitivity to gamma radiation during the wet season of 2006 in the lowland ecology. Dry seeds of rice varieties were exposed to gamma radiation ranging from 50 to 800 Gy to deter...