COMMON WEEDS,BENEFICIAL PLANTS AND LEGUMES COVER CROPS

PRESENTED BY :-

GROUP : B2Muhammad Nazmi Bin Mohd Raffi

Mohd Taufiq Adzim Bin Md.Noh

Mohd Noor Aslan Hadi Bin Adnan

Mohd Shafiq Bin Abdul Jalil

Mohamad Amir Bin Shapie

Hajah Bt Badarilah

Khariah Bt Samsi Kahar

Nadia Farha Bt Arshat

Nur Sabreena Bt Zamuddin

Siti Nadrah Bt M. Omar

Siti Noor Amanina Bt Abdul Malek

COMMON WEEDS

Any types of unwanted plants grow in the major

crop field can be defined as weeds.

Some of the weeds give benefit such as fern at

the stem because it can cool the plant.

Some of the weeds doesn’t give anything, like

cow grass that can give competition to oil palm:-

-space

-nutrient

-sunlight

Weeds give competition to main crop when it

interfere the absorption of nutrition in the main

crop.

Weeds also can disturb the fruit picker task during

harvesting time by growing rapidly around the oil

palm tree.

Weeds move by crawling to the tree and disturb

the growth of new front.

Ferncowgrass

Fern Phlanthus amarus

LEGUMENOUS COVER CROP

PURPOSE:- To cover the surface of topsoil and reduce the

direct penetration of sunlight. To give moisture, reduce temperature and

organic material degeneration. Acting as a compost after die. Supply nitrogen from environment to the plant.

through root nodules. Reduce maintenance that can save cost.

EXAMPLE OF LCC

Calapogonium caeruleum Centrosema pubescen Mucuna bracteata Puerera Javanica

Mucuna bracteata

BENEFICIAL PLANTS FUNCTION

1. Attract the insect of parasitoid and predators for the biological control.2. As a landscape in the estate.3. Avoid soil erosion.

The beneficial plants that we found here:- Tenera subulata Antigonum leptopus Cassia cobanensis

Tenera subulata

Antigonum leptopus

Cassia cobanensis

THE END…Thank you