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 Irrigated Rice Research Consortium
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Back-to-back weeds and statistics training held in MyanmarAs a continuing effort of the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium’s (IRRC) country outreach program on capacity building, training courses on integrated weed management (5-7 November 2007) and basic experimental design and data analysis using CropStat (8-12 November 2007) were conducted at the Central Agricultural Research and Training Center, Myanma Agriculture Service, Hlegu, Yangon. IRRC Labor Productivity Work Group weed scientist Joel Janiya conducted the course on weed management and Violeta Bartolome of the Crop Research and Informatics Laboratory of IRRI handled the statistics training, assisted by Mr. Janiya. A total of 42 trainees attended both courses (21 participants for each training course).
Participants try to identify and rate weeds in the field. The integrated weed management course included topics such as crop establishment methods; introduction to weed management; weed population dynamics and survival; nonchemical and chemical weed control methods; weed collection, identification, and herbarium preparation; planning a weed control trial in rice; and herbicide calculation and sprayer calibration. The course also included practical exercises on weed sampling and identification and sprayer calibration. After a discussion of individual components of weed management, practical exercises on the integration of the various components were done using situational weed problems in the respective townships of the participants.
Researchers familiarize themselves with experimental designs used in rice research. The statistics course was designed
to acquaint researchers with principles of experimental design, basic
experimental designs used in rice research, analysis of variance and regression,
and correlation analysis. The training also introduced CropStat, a
microcomputer-based statistical package that facilitates analysis of
experimental data.
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