Some salt on your rice?

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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
Date
2000
Language
en
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CTA. 2000. Some salt on your rice?. Spore 87. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Permanent link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10568/46791
Internet URL: http://spore.cta.int/images/stories/pdf/old/spore87.pdf
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A weed killer based on cooking salt has been developed by paddy farmers in northern Thailand, with a mixture of 60g NaCl per litre of water). Research workers have confirmed that this is indeed an effective treatment which prevents growth of the...
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A weed killer based on cooking salt has been developed by paddy farmers in northern Thailand, with a mixture of 60g NaCl per litre of water). Research workers have confirmed that this is indeed an effective treatment which prevents growth of the major weeds Asteraceae and Compositae and which helps biomass volume to grow. To be applied sparingly, only once per cultivation cycle, and not to be repeated the next year, this household weed killer has the advantages of not damaging the environment and reducing the need for manpower. To know more: Guy Trebuil CIRAD-CA, avenue Agropolis 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France Email: guy.trebuil@cirad.fr
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CROP PRODUCTION AND PROTECTION;
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