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Survey of weeds of bitter gourd Momordica charantia Linn.] crop was carried out during 2000-2001 with the view to check their competition with vegetable crop of bitter gourd from District Sukkur. Five different growing localities viz. Abad, Bagarji, Kando Wahan, Salehpat and Rohri were selected for this study. Twenty six weed species belonging to 15 angiospermic families have been recorded from the study areas. The most dominant species recorded from all selected sites was Convolvulus arvensis with a density% of 33.02. It was followed by Cyperus rotundus, Trianthema portulacastrum, Amaranthus viridis, Corchorus aestuans and Echinochloa crus-galli with density of 3.23-16.18%. Whereas the most frequent species was Cyperus rotundus with frequency% of 96, followed by Cynodon dactylon, Amaranthus viridis, Euphorbia hirta, Echinochloa colona, Portulaca oleracea and Trianthema portulacastrum with a frequency% ranging from 64-72
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Crops, AgriculturalABSTRACT
Khairpur is the largest city for date fruit production in the province of Sindh. The local inhabitants of this area are very skilled for its curing and processing. They not only supply the fruit to other cities of our country but also export this nutritious item. Taxonomic description along with Ethnobotanical survey was conducted to record indigenous knowledge for its curing and processing and other native uses in various ways
ABSTRACT
Date is a very delicious fruit. It contains high nutritional and medicinal value and is also a cheaper source of energy and nutrients. The local inhabitants/herbalists [Hakeems] of this area employ this fruit as a natural medicine in different disorders particularly in general debility. Interviews with known elderly people and herbal practitioners were carried out to determine medicinal value of this fruit. This paper reports literature survey and its local uses in order to check its efficacy in various complaints