Details concerning the Physical and Cultural Weed Control working group
What is physical weed control?
It includes the following weed control techniques:
- Mechanical weed control
- Soil tillage
- Thermal weed control
- Mulching
- Preventive and cultural methods
- Solarization
- Electromagnetic weed control
Which disciplines?
Although not exhaustive, it encompasses the following disciplines:
- Weed science
- Soil science
- Engineering Economics
- Crop husbandry and other plant related disciplines
Objectives of our working group:
- Encouraging the international collaboration and support of research in physical weed control and its application in sustainable agriculture
- Inform group members about newly emerging possibilities for physical weed control, industrial expertise, possibilities for cooperation and potential sources for financial support
- Initiate joint-projects and research programmes on the European scale to promote the integration of physical weed control into existing crop protection strategies
- Organizing meetings and workshops where weed scientists can get in contact with other research disciplines engaged in physical weed control
- Establishing and maintaining contacts with physical weed control groups outside Europe
- Reviewing the knowledge on physical weed control to clarify research needs
- Promotion of physical weed control methods in Europe
- Investigation of combined use of physical, cultural and chemical control methods
- Running an mformation network (newsletter, E-mail-network and database) for exchange of information about persons, projects, results and ideas
- Organizing biennial meetings and workshops
Further information and membership
Chairman: Bo Melander
Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences
Department of Crop Protection
Research Centre
Flakkebjerg
DK-4200 Slagelse-Denmark
Phone: +45 58 11 33 93
Fax: +41 58 11 33 01
E-mail: bo.melander@agrsci.dk