Effects of green manure crops and mulching technology on reduction in herbicide and fertilizer use during rice cultivation in Korea

Agriculture & Biology

• fertilizer use reduction 100%
• herbicide use reduction 86%
• Vicia villosa 70%
• plastic film 63%
• green manures 62%
• mulching 59%
• Korean Peninsula 50%
• rice 34%
• paddies 30%
• crops 27%
• barley 24%
• redox potential 24%
• herbicides 17%
• weeds 16%
• fertilizers 15%
• rice soils 14%
• paddy soils 13%
• soil 10%
• pesticide application 10%
• tillage 9%
• fertilizer application 9%
• soil organic matter 9%
• weed control 9%
• ammonium 9%
• plastics 8%
• degradation 6%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Manure 84%
• Fertilizers 81%
• Vicia 78%
• Herbicides 68%
• Oryza 62%
• Korea 53%
• Plastics 50%
• Soil 37%
• Hordeum 37%
• Technology 34%
• Weed Control 17%
• Oxidation-Reduction 16%
• Ammonium Compounds 11%