Measures to Control Sunflower Broomrake

Pests, diseases and weeds cause great damage to agricultural crops. In recent years, the problem of the spread of broomrape in sunflower crops in Azerbaijan has become urgent. The existing measures to combat harmful organisms are powerless against this weed. Pollution of the arable layer with broomrape seeds forces farmers to change the place of sowing sunflower from year to year. A new approach to solving the problem is needed. To cleanse the soil from broomrape seeds, provocative sowings of corn, clover, mustard and rape are used. The named plants stimulate the germination of weed seeds, but broomrape does not settle on them. Dense sowings of sunflower for silage with immediate plowing after harvesting and the culture of early varieties of cabbage, also accompanied by plowing after harvesting, clean the soil well from broomrape seeds (new seeds do not have time to form). Peas or soybeans are also used for provocative sowings. If a combination of several methods is used, each of which does not provide effective control on its own, then the level of protection increases. Detailed schemes are given in the work.