Weed control

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  • weed control
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  • Freeing an area of land from weeds by several means, such as herbicides, tillage, burning, mowing, and crop competition.
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  • http://eurovoc.europa.eu/4490
Abstract from DBPedia
    Weed control is a type of pest control, which attempts to stop or reduce growth of weeds, especially noxious weeds, with the aim of reducing their competition with desired flora and fauna including domesticated plants and livestock, and in natural settings preventing non native species competing with native species. Weed control is important in agriculture. Methods include hand cultivation with hoes, powered cultivation with cultivators, smothering with mulch, lethal wilting with high heat, burning, and chemical control with herbicides (weed killers).

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Weed_control)