| Weeds play an important role in decreasing yield in dry-direct seeded rice. However, using herbicide could effectively control weed and help increase rice yield. The objective of this research was to investigate the effect of herbicide application on weed control and rice yield in dry-direct seeded paddy field. The experiment was conducted at a farmer’s field, Khon Kaen province, from June to November of 2012 with the use of rice variety KDML 105. The nine treatments were 1) no weeding, 2) hand weeding, 3) oxadiazon, 4) oxadiargyl, 5) oxyfluorfen, 6) pendimethalin, 7) butachor/propanil, 8) clomazone and 9) bispyribac-sodium. The rates of herbicide application of treatments 3-9 were 120.0, 40.0, 28.2, 198.0, 175.0, 38.4 and 4.0 g ai/rai, respectively, The... |
