Virender Kumar

Virender Kumar is a Senior Weed Scientist at IRRI. His work is focused on developing integrated weed management solutions in rice-based systems, with special emphasis on direct-seeded rice systems. The major focus is on (1) managing the weed seedbank (2) identifying weed competitive cultivars, (3) studying ecology and biology of rice weeds, (4) identifying innovative solutions for emerging problematic weed species including weedy rice, (5) manipulating agronomic practices to shift crop-weed competition in favor of crop, (6) optimizing flooding depth, timing, and duration for anaerobic germination (AG)-tolerant rice, (7) mechanical weeding, 8) herbicide resistance management, (9) identifying new herbicides 10) developing ICT-based decision tool for accurate weed management recommendations