著者

Haruki Takayanagi Takayoshi Nishida

出版者

生態工学会

雑誌

Eco-Engineering (ISSN:13470485)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, no.2, pp.53-56, 2017-04-30 (Released:2017-04-30)

参考文献数

9

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In recent years, an increasing emphasis on conserving biodiversity in cultivated land has led to a need for environmentally friendly and sustainable agriculture that does not depend on the excessive use of agrochemicals. However, it can be difficult to generate high crop yields without using herbicides because alternative methods of restricting weed growth are often costly and labor-intensive. Here, we designed a mesocosm to examine the weeding efficacy of a cheap, commercially available, automatic robot ball, which was originally designed for house cleaning. The weeding robot performed very well, particularly for sprouts of Monochoria vaginalis var. plantaginea, a major paddy weed found in central Japan.