Tackling the Turgrass Menace: Urgent Action Needed to Control its Spread

January 25, 2024

Turgrass has spread widely, causing serious harm to the ecological environment and human health. Faced with the aggressive invasion, experts are calling for urgent action to prevent and control turgrass.


Turgrass can quickly form a dominant monoculture in an area, occupying the living space, nutrients, and water of other plants, leading to the decline and extinction of the original plant community.

It is reported that in the 1980s, Jiangxi Province carried out weed control in various counties and achieved certain results.

However, at that time, only chemical and manual methods were used to deal with turgrass, which proved to be ineffective in the face of its strong reproductive and adaptive abilities.

Kovalov, a turgrass expert from the former Soviet Union, once pointed out, "If China does not take immediate action to prevent and control turgrass, the consequences will be irreparable."

In terms of control methods, plants also follow the survival of the fittest. In terms of control methods, chemical methods are effective but highly polluting. Experts recommend using biological methods to control turgrass.

It is understood that turgrass has the growth characteristic of "filling in the gaps." As long as there is vacant land, it will quickly occupy it.

Experts suggest combining urban greening and using competitive plants to "encircle and intercept" turgrass. By occupying urban vacant land and planting economically viable plants such as ginger, which have stronger competitive ability than turgrass in its susceptible areas, it can be considered as a better control method.

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