International Webinar on “Weed Flora and their Management in Rice-Wheat Cropping System” organized

The ICAR-Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh organized an International Webinar on “Weed Flora and their Management in Rice-Wheat Cropping System” today.

The Lead Speakers - Dr. R.K Malik, System Agronomist, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) and Dr. Virender Kumar, Senior Scientist, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines outlined the overall scenario of the weed problems in Rice and Wheat in India. They also underlined the Weed Flora shifts due to the change in the ecology, management practices, soil types and climate change with critical analysis at the District Levels in 8 major Rice-Wheat growing States of the country.

Dr. N.T. Yaduraju, Former Director, ICAR-DWR, Jabalpur emphasized on using the advances in machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Weed Management to solve the problems.

Earlier, delivering the welcome address, Dr. J.S. Mishra, Director, ICAR-DWR, Jabalpur highlighted the weed problems in the Rice-Wheat Cropping System in the Indo-Gangetic Plains.

More than 160 participants from ICAR Institutes, State Agricultural Universities, Central Agricultural Universities, ICAR-Agricultural Technology Application Research Institutes, Krishi Vigyan Kendras, CG Centres, Pesticide Industry and NGOs participated in the Webinar.

(Source: ICAR-Directorate of Weed Research, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh)