How to eradicate perennial grasses such as lalang is one of the main problems of the planter in the tropics. The traditional method of hand digging is now far too costly, ploughing is seldom feasible, and spraying with total weedkillers has not given good results without the risk of injury to crops. Safer chemicals are being sought and it seems possible from trials now in progress in Malaya that success might yet be achieved.
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Anon. (1953). Planters’ Bull., Rubber Res. Inst., Malaya. New Series No. 4, pp. 2–8.
