Weed management in rice field

2021 October, 13

There are many groups of weed appearing in the rice fields: broad leaf weed, scattered weed … and especially rice weed.

Threat:

Direct competition for sunlight, nutrients, and water with rice plant.
A place for insects and many diseases to attack rice.
Weed seed mix up with grain when harvesting, reduce grain quality.

Weed seed mix up with grain when harvesting, reduce grain quality:

Perform tillage operations, level the field
Use varieties that is not mixed with weed seeds.
Use water to control weed.

However, there’re just only a few rice fields have suitable condition to apply this method. To control harmful weed, Map Pacific Singapore introduces “Best solution to kill weed”: Map Famix 30EC.

Map Famix 30EC is a safety pre-emergence herbicide for rice plant, can kill almost all weed type, especially high effect on rice grass and broad leaf weed.

Using instruction:

Spraying Time: After soil preparation, 1 day before sowing (spraying), the day after, drain the water and sow normally. Or spray after sowing from 01 to 03 days.
Dosage: from 100ml to 120ml/1000m2
After spraying, avoid letting the field get too dry.
Not spraying for dry sowing field (not soaked seed)