Agricultural and Biological Research

Diversity of weeds in maize and soybean crop and their ecological characteristics under the northern climatic scenario of swat Pakistan

PImran Amanullah*, Abdul Bari, Shahida Naveed, Hayat Zada, Abdel Rehman Al Tawaha, Muhammad Ilyas, Izhar Ali and Inayatullah Khan

It has been noticed since last decade that weeds emergence, survival, growth and development sharpened as compared to the previous decades and yield It has been noticed since last decade that weeds emergence, survival, growth and development sharpened as compared to the previous decades and yield of agronomic crops especially of cereals and cash crop drastically decreased. In present study various weeds were observed in consecutive two years study as a test crop on Maize and soybean crop under the agro ecological condition of Swat Pakistan.