Under conditions of the Central Chernozem Region in the period from 1990 till 2012 long-term and short-term experiments were carried out in order to study the effect of different systems and methods of main soil treatment on weed infestation of plantings and yield of field crops. Soil and plant samples analyses were performed by customary methods. It has been defined that improved fall-ploughing and supplementary fall-ploughing at a depth of 6-8 cm allow reducing the quantity of weed vegetation in sugar beet plantings by 22 % and 33.3 % respectively compared to conventional (two-phase) fall-ploughing.
main soil treatment, plowing, boardless soil treatment, weed infestation, crop yield.
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