Spider Abundance in Sugarcane: Impact of Cultural Practices, Irrigation and Post-Harvest Trash Burning

Autor:	G. Santhalakshmi, J. Srikanth, N. K. Kurup, S. Easwaramoorthy
Rok vydání:	1997
Předmět:	Irrigation Spider Agronomy biology Abundance (ecology) Horticulture Cane biology.organism_classification Weed control Agronomy and Crop Science
Zdroj:	Biological Agriculture & Horticulture. 14:343-356
ISSN:	2165-0616 0144-8765
DOI:	10.1080/01448765.1997.9755169
Popis:	Field experiments were conducted at Coimbatore, India, to evaluate the impact of cultural practices, irrigation and post-harvest trash burning on spider abundance in sugarcane fields. Exclusion of selected cultural practices; manual weed control, earthing-up and three detrashing operations significantly (p 0.05) the number of millable canes per 6 m row, internode number and cane length, while single cane weight and cane girth were affected significantly (p < 0.05). Amongst the three methods of irrigation, namely conventional furrow, surface drip and sub-surface drip, the conventional furrow method disturbed the spiders most while the sub-surface drip disturbe...
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