All India Coordinated Research Project on Weed Management (AICRP-WM) was launched in 1978 with the mandate to do systematic research on weed management in the country. This project was started initially with 6 centres in different parts of the country, which later on grew to 17 centres in 2015, almost in all the important Agricultural Universities of the country. Over the last 40 years, information relating to weeds in different cropped and non-cropped situations, management practices, herbicide residues and utilization aspects of weeds has been generated. Location-specific improved technologies on weed management have been developed and adopted in large areas throughout the country. With the continuous efforts of AICRP-WM, weed management technologies are now available for almost all crops and cropping systems as well as for non-cropped situations which have the potential to increase productivity, profitability, and ensure environmental sustainability and biodiversity.
Network experiments related to weed management in conservation agriculture, organic farming, input-use efficiency and herbicide use in cropping systems, weed dynamics and management of problematic weeds, monitoring, degradation, and mitigation of herbicides, were made. On-Farm Research and impact assessment of weed management technologies were also undertaken.
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