The Effect of Tillage Technology on the Amount of Weeds and the Yield of Potatoes

Weeds deprive agricultural plants of life factors and deteriorate their productivity and quality indicators. Therefore, agricultural experts try to reduce the amount of weeds to minimize the damage caused by it. First of all, it is important to know their biological characteristics, extent of spread, species composition, which is reflected in the article, in order to carry out the measures against weeds correctly. It is known from the species composition of weeds spread in potato crops that it is possible to eliminate the damage caused by applying the correct soil cultivation technology. In the research work, when the intermediate plant (field pea + oat mixture) planted under rotation conditions is disked and mixed with the soil and plowed as a result of soil cultivation measures, the reduction of the amount of weeds significantly increases the productivity. Here, the yield increase was 58.5 q/ha or 37.55% compared to the variant that was left fallow after wheat, plowed 25-30 cm and sprayed with herbicide. This suggests that it is possible to significantly increase productivity while minimizing the use of herbicides by applying the correct tillage technology in potato crops.