Khawar Jabran Bücher

Exploring the role of mulches in agriculture, this book delves into their benefits for non-chemical pest control, soil and water conservation, and enhancing soil fertility and microbial activity. It addresses the growing need for sustainable agricultural practices in response to environmental concerns surrounding conventional pesticides and land use. By compiling recent research and developments, it serves as a valuable resource for researchers, growers, and students seeking comprehensive insights into the multifaceted applications of mulching in farming systems.

This book clearly defines ways to maximize the allelopathic potential of important field crops for controlling weeds, either in the same crop or others. Compared to the use of herbicides, allelopathy is an attractive option to control weeds naturally under field conditions. The book highlights the allelopathic potential of several important cereals (wheat, maize, rice, barley, sorghum, rye) and two oilseed crops [sunflower and canola (as well as some other member of Brassicaceae family)]. Further, the book explains how the allelopathic potential of these crops can be manipulated under field conditions to suppress weeds. This is possible by growing allelopathic crop cultivars, using mulches from allelopathic crops, intercropping an allelopathic crop with a non-allelopathic crop, including allelopathic crops in crop rotation, or using allelopathic crops as cover crops. Equipped with several basic concepts of allelopathy, this book will be highly useful for the farming community as well as students and researchers.