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The Impact of Herbicide Research on Field Practices in Pineapple Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Donald P. Gowing  and
Arthur H. Lange
Donald P. Gowing
Affiliation:
Pineapple Research Institute of Hawaii
Arthur H. Lange
Affiliation:
Pineapple Research Institute of Hawaii
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Abstract

Weed control has been a major problem in Hawaiian pineapple production. Hand-hoeing and mechanical cultivation gave way to activated oil emulsion sprays in the 1940's. The 1950's brought the use of preemergence herbicides especially 3–(p–chlorophenyl)–1,1–dimethylurea (monuron). Each method has brought a shift in species distribution. Today, large-seeded species and vegetatively-propagated species are less well-controlled than in the days of contact weeding with oil emulsion sprays. There is need for selective herbicides which will control the weeds which escape the present program.

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Research Article
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Weeds , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , April 1962 , pp. 118 - 120
Copyright
Copyright © 1962 Weed Science Society of America 

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