Cultural weed control in Chickpea:

• Summer ploughing 2-3 times and leave the field for solarization.
• Solarization can be done by giving light irrigation in morning and then covering the field by polythene so that the weeds are killed due to heat effect. 
• Prepare stale seed bed and allow the weeds to germinate either by irrigation or pre monsoon shower and then killing them by shallow harrowing.
• Always use certified and weed free seeds.
• Timely sowing should be done.
• Narrow row spacing and higher seed rate is effective in reducing weed growth.
• Line sowing should be done to facilitate inter-culture operations.
• Plant population should be maintained to its optimum right from its beginning to minimize the crop weed competition.
• Inter-culture operation-using hoe to remove all the weeds in between the row.
• Mulches like straw hay etc can be used and then these can be placed in between the rows to suppress the weed growth.