Managing Cogon without poison

Chemical Free Cogon Grass Eradication

and Pasture Development

Shifting Cultivation“Slash and Burn”

Cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica)

Cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica)

Use up (exaust) root stores of energyStressRestStressRestStress

StressCuttingGrazingBurning

GrazingGrazing

Old root sloughed off

New tiller

New root

38 cm.

Cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica)

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Brachiaria humidicola (Rendle) Schweick

Centrosema pubescens

Before

AFTER