Allelopathy as an agricultural innovation and improving allelopathy extension

作者：Ozcatalbas Orhan^*; Brumfield Robin

来源：Journal of Food Agriculture and Environment, 2010, 8(2): 908-913.

• Extension of allelopathy
• farmer training
• adoption of allelopathy
• diffusion of innovation

All over the world, one of the main purposes of extension is to increase the level of living standards of the rural family through non-formal education. Extension has a very crucial role to play in sustainable development and organic agriculture. For that reason, extension activity is implemented by different institutions. Extension systems worldwide are operated by governmental (86%) and non-governmental (14%) organizations. In this paper, allelopathy is accepted as a technology to implement for weed control and biological control of other useful traits. Allelopathy can be defined as a component of biological control in which plants are used to reduce the vigor and development of other plants. Allelopathy also covers the direct or indirect chemical effects of one plant on the germination, growth, or development of neighboring plants. Many crops have been reported as showing allelopathic properties at one time or another. For that reason, in this study, we investigate important allelopathic traits for agricultural extension, the possibilities of improving allelopathy extension, and the adoption and diffusion of allelopathy.

• 出版日期2010-4