Abstract
Rice has become an important strategic and daily staple food crop in Nigeria. The potential land area for rice production in Nigeria is between 4.6 and 4.9 million ha. However, only about 1.7 million ha is presently cropped to rice. The main production ecologies for rice in Nigeria are rain fed lowland, rain fed upland, irrigated lowland, deep water/boating and mangrove swamp. Of these, rain fed lowland rice has the largest share of the rice area (50%) and rice production. Small-scale farmers with farm holdings of less than 1 ha cultivate most of the rice produced in Nigeria. However, rice productivity and production at the farm level are constrained by several factors, one of which is problem of weeds. The weed control methods practiced by farmers engaged in lowland irrigated rice production is based on two methods; traditional and modern system. This paper discussed the various practices in employed in these two methods.
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Dahiru, R., Ilallah, B. M., Abubakar, M. A., Adamu, L. M., Muhammad, L. H., Maigatari, A. A., & Adamu, H. H. (2017). A Review on Weed Control Methods of Lowland Rice Production in Nigeria. Semi-Arid Journal of Academic Research and Development, 1(1), 12–20.
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