Research Article | Published: 01 June 2009

Angiospermic weeds of crop land in Bageshwar district Uttarakhand

A. K. Paliwal, Ashish K. Gururani and Mukul Joshi

Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products | Volume: 16 | Issue: 2 | Page No. 151-152 | 2009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2009-JCHR32 | Cite this article

Abstract

Bageshwar is a small district of the hill-state of Uttarakhand-the 'Abode of Gods', situated in the Northern part of India. Being a hill country side, the main occupation of people here is agriculture and other similar practices. Due to a complete dependence on crop fields the major problems of farmers here include the abundance of weed plants like Galinsoga parviflora Cav., Parthenium hysterophorus L. etc. are the obnoxious weeds of this region. paper describes 37 angiospermic weed plant species found growing in major crop land areas of Bageshwar.

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Paliwal, A.K., Gururani, A.K. and Joshi, M., 2009. Angiospermic weeds of crop land in Bageshwar district Uttarakhand. Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products, 16(2), pp.151-152. https://doi.org/10.54207/bsmps2000-2009-JCHR32

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Manuscript Published on 01 June 2009

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