Can glyphosate be used to control weeds in peach, pear, and plum orchards?
Can glyphosate be used to control weeds in peach, pear, and plum orchards? Please advise and explain. Glyphosate is a low-toxicity, broad-spectrum, non-selective herbicide, widely used for weed control in orchards of cash crops such as fruit orchards, tea plantations, and mulberry plantations, as well as for weed control in no-till fields, along roads, in grassland renovation, and on forest firebreaks, and it has been widely used around the world...
Can glyphosate be used to control weeds in peach, pear, and plum orchards? Please advise and explain.
Glyphosate is a low-toxicity, broad-spectrum, non-selective herbicide, widely used for weed control in orchards of cash crops such as fruit orchards, tea plantations, and mulberry plantations, as well as for weed control in no-till fields, along roads, in grassland renovation, and on forest firebreaks, and it has been widely used around the world. However, it is worth noting that some orchards are not suitable for weed control with glyphosate.
Using glyphosate to control weeds in peach, pear, and plum orchards not only has a relatively large impact on the yield and quality of peaches, pears, and plums, but also induces gummosis in peach, plum, and pear trees, accelerating aging and death. If glyphosate is used to control weeds in newly planted young orchards, growth will be slow, or the trees may even wither and die and fail to survive.
Why does using glyphosate to control weeds in peach, pear, and plum orchards have such adverse effects? Glyphosate is a non-selective herbicide with extremely strong damage to root systems, while peaches, pears, and plums are shallow-rooted crops, and their root systems are very easily damaged, seriously affecting the absorption of fertilizer and water. Therefore, growth is affected, and the impact on yield and quality is relatively large, especially for young peach, pear, and plum orchards, where the impact is even more serious: in mild cases growth is slow, and in severe cases the trees die. As temperatures rise, weeds in orchards grow very quickly, and fruit growers in various places will carry out spraying to control weeds in orchards. For this reason, it is recommended that fruit growers in various places not use pesticides such as glyphosate and glyphosate-isopropylamine salt to control weeds, but instead use agents such as paraquat. This is because agents such as paraquat can only kill the green aboveground parts and will not damage the root system. Therefore, using herbicides such as paraquat in orchards of peach trees, pear trees, plum trees, etc. is relatively safe.
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