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A daunting task that has always found a way to affect whichever kind of plant I decide to grow is the part that deals with weed control, whether it has to be done before planting or even after planting.

Fertility of a land can only help the land produce well to some extent but no matter how fertile that land may be exposing this plant to the slightest amount of weed can cause lots of damage and even affect the quantity and quality of the harvest you will make.

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A farmer who has put in so much hard work till this point wouldn't want to blow it all away because he neglected this important detail.

Effects of weeds on harvest quantity and quality?

This part might look small and not important especially to farmers who have small amount of weed on their farm but even the smallest weed can have big effect on what you are growing because looking at it on the scale of how much of an effect they can have on each other you would know that no matter their size they always find a way to bully what you've planted and prevent it from having the right proportion of what it needs to grow. The amount of weed that grows on that land and how green and fertile they are would tell how fertile the land itself is.

• space : the battle for space use to be the most predominant part of plants, they most times end up been crowded and overpowered by these weeds that tend to grow faster, bigger and even taller than the crop that you've planted.

• nutrient : since it is important that all plants have enough nutrients to grow well, weeds which are plants themselves will also need enough nutrients to grow well which is where the weeds begin sucking up most of the nutrients leaving the crop with little or no available nutrients, it is not the kind of battle you would expect any crop to win since in most situations the weeds in question do have lots of spines attached to their roots which means many available route to draw up this nutrients and since in most cases the crop is usually overcrowded by weeds that tend to grow faster and produce lots of other weeds in a short space and within close proximity to where the plant is.

• pest and disease: in case where there are lots of weeds within and around a farm there tends to be case of certain plant disease that can originate from the surrounding weeds to the crop and there are also high case of pest In and around the area mostly pest like rats, rabbits and even birds who makes use of this weeds and the bushy area around as their camouflage and hideouts.

What is the best way to root out this weeds without affecting the crop I have planted.

before I dabbled into this I had to really think about what would be the best approach to this if applying agro chemicals would be better than weeding it manually. Well I finally decided to do this manually because when I had not planted any thing using agro chemicals would be my best bet cause it would save alot of stress, time and energy but applying this when I have planted would mean that I would have to be able to understand every detail on how to use all the agro chemicals since the slightest mistakes would destroy all the crops and all my effort would have wasted which is why most the farmers in my place prefare weeding them manually using hoes even though it would waste lots of time and they would be using lots of energy but I would rader do that to ensure am on the safer side so in cases where I can't do it alone I would result to employing laborers which would also increase my production cost.

Agro chemicals can also be very harmful to health as some of their contents can be very toxic hence harmful if it is mistakenly inhaled or even swallowed.

I think effective sensitisation on how to use this agro chemicals after I have planted this crop will really come in handy for me and other farmers.

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