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Costs Associated with Weed Management in Cereals and Food Legumes in the Chaouia Region of Settat Province, Morocco

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Robert L. Zimdahl ,
Giles T. Rafsnider ,
Mohamed Boughlala  and
Abdellila Laamari
Robert L. Zimdahl
Affiliation:
Dep. Plant Pathol, and Weed Sci., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, Col., former Technical Advisor MidAmerica Int. Agric. Consortium Morocco Project, at the Institut National de La Recherche Agronomique Centre Aridoculture, B. P. 290, Settat, Morocco, and MIAC Agric. Econ. Res. Assocs.
Giles T. Rafsnider
Affiliation:
Dep. Plant Pathol, and Weed Sci., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, Col., former Technical Advisor MidAmerica Int. Agric. Consortium Morocco Project, at the Institut National de La Recherche Agronomique Centre Aridoculture, B. P. 290, Settat, Morocco, and MIAC Agric. Econ. Res. Assocs.
Mohamed Boughlala
Affiliation:
Dep. Plant Pathol, and Weed Sci., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, Col., former Technical Advisor MidAmerica Int. Agric. Consortium Morocco Project, at the Institut National de La Recherche Agronomique Centre Aridoculture, B. P. 290, Settat, Morocco, and MIAC Agric. Econ. Res. Assocs.
Abdellila Laamari
Affiliation:
Dep. Plant Pathol, and Weed Sci., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, Col., former Technical Advisor MidAmerica Int. Agric. Consortium Morocco Project, at the Institut National de La Recherche Agronomique Centre Aridoculture, B. P. 290, Settat, Morocco, and MIAC Agric. Econ. Res. Assocs.
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Abstract

Crop enterprise budgets for eight crops prepared from a sample of 131 farms in the Chaouia region of Settat province, Morocco show that weed management is a component of crop production. Although all farmers used herbicides on small grains, weed control was accomplished primarily with hired and family labor. In general, labor is more plentiful than capital and the per hectare cost of using hired labor is low. The percentage of total cash expenditures assigned to weed management averaged more than 5% in each farm size group. However, there was substantial variability among crops. Average hours spent to manage weeds was nearly constant for the three groups. Barley received the least labor and corn or a food legume the most. Farmers of small farms used more family labor and those of large farms used more hired labor.

Keywords

Crop enterprise budgets
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Information
Weed Technology , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1992 , pp. 156 - 160
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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