Weed infestation level of organic alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.): Crops

Abstract

This paper presents the results on the presence of weeds in organic alfalfa crops in different years of growing, in Futog during the vegetation period in 2015. In the studied plots, 19 weed species were identified in the organic alfalfa crops, ranging from 13 in three-year-old crops to 17 in those in the fourth year of exploitation, with only 8 recorded in the five-year-old samples. Quantitative and qualitative weed community composition in the studied plots was dependent on the alfalfa crop maturity. It was found that there were statistically significant differences between the total infestation of alfalfa in different years crop utilization. Species Taraxacum officinale Web., Cynodon dactylon Pers. and Artemisia vulgaris L. had the greatest number and their number of individuals/m2 was statistically significantly higher than in all other identified species.

Keywords

• weeds
• alfalfa
• organic production