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Group characteristics of tea growers relative to weed management: a case study in southwestern China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 August 2019

Guoqi Chen Open the ORCID record for Guoqi Chen [Opens in a new window] ,
Bin Zhang ,
Qiong Wu ,
Linhong Jin ,
Zhuo Chen  and
Xiaofeng Tan
Guoqi Chen*
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Cultivation and Physiology, Agricultural College of Yangzhou University, and Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
Bin Zhang
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Plant Protection and Quarantine Station of Guiyang City, Guiyang 550081, China
Qiong Wu
Affiliation:
Research Assistant and Professor, Plant Protection and Quarantine Station of Guizhou Province, Guiyang 550001, China
Linhong Jin
Affiliation:
Professor, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Zhuo Chen
Affiliation:
Professor, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China
Xiaofeng Tan*
Affiliation:
Research Assistant and Professor, Plant Protection and Quarantine Station of Guizhou Province, Guiyang 550001, China
*
Guoqi Chen, Agricultural College of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China (Email: chenguoqi@yzu.edu.cn).
Authors for correspondence: Xiaofeng Tan, Plant Protection and Quarantine Station of Guizhou Province, Guiyang 550001, China (Email: tanxf@263.net.cn)
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Abstract

Farmer training is important to improve weed management practices in tea cultivation. To explore the group characteristics of tea growers, we interviewed 354 growers in Guizhou Province, China. Sixty-one percent of the respondents planted tea for companies or cooperative groups, and 56% managed tea gardens larger than 10 ha. Self-employed tea growers tended to be older and smallholders, and to apply herbicides and conduct weed control less frequently (P < 0.05). Approximately 87% of the respondents conducted weed control two to four times yr−1, 83% spent between $200 and $2,000 ha−1 yr−1 for weed control, and 42% thought weed control costs would decrease by 5 years from this study. Twenty-eight species were mentioned by the respondents as being the most serious. According to canonical correspondence analysis, latitude, altitude, being self-employed or a member of a cooperative, having training experience in tea-garden weed management, and frequency and cost of weed control in tea gardens had significant (P < 0.05) influence on the composition of most troublesome weed species listed by respondents. Among the respondents, 60% had had farmer’s training on weed management in tea gardens. Of these, a significant number (P < 0.05) tended to think weed control costs would decrease, and a nonsignificant number (P > 0.05) tended to conduct weed control more frequently and have lower weed management costs in their tea gardens.

Keywords

Andrew Kniss, University of WyomingTeaCamellia sinensis (L.) KuntzeAnticipation of cost trendsfarmer’s trainingquestionnaireserious weed speciesweed control cost
Type
Research Article
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Weed Technology , Volume 33 , Issue 6 , December 2019 , pp. 847 - 854
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© Weed Science Society of America, 2019 

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

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