HPM Freedom ( Metsulfuron Methyl 20% WP )

FREEDOM (Metsulfuron Methyl 20% WP)

Freedom is a selective systemic post emergence herbicide

Freedom absorbed through roots and foliage and translocat to apex of the plants.
Rapid cessation of cell division and subsequent growth.
It controls a wide range of grass weeds and broad-leaf weeds.
It is safe for neighboring broad leaved and other crops.

It affects sensitive weeds through inhibition of the enzyme acetolactate synthase (ALS). Inhibition of ALS leads to the rapid cessation of the cell division and subsequent growth processes in plants

Mode of action

Selective systemic herbicide absorbed through the roots and foliage and translocated the apex of the plants. Symptoms appear within days, with death within 2-4 weeks.
Applications

-->It is a selective systemic post emergence herbicide.
-->Rapid cessation of cell division and subsequent growth.
-->It controls a wide range of grass weeds and broad leaf weeds.
-->It is safe for neighbouring broad leaved and other crops.

1. FREEDOM Metsulfuron Methyl 20 % WP

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systemic post
emergence
herbicide
Dose : 8 gm / acre

FREEDOM
Freedom is a selective
systemic post emergence
herbicide.
Freedom absorbed through
roots and foliage and
translocat to apex of the
plants.
Rapid cessation of cell division
and subsequent growth.
It controls a wide range of
grass weeds and broad leaf
weeds.
It is safe for neighboring
broad leaved and other crops.

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systemic post
emergence
herbicide
Dose : 8 gm / acre

FREEDOM
Freedom is a selective
systemic post emergence
herbicide.
Freedom absorbed through
roots and foliage and
translocat to apex of the
plants.
Rapid cessation of cell division
and subsequent growth.
It controls a wide range of
grass weeds and broad leaf
weeds.
It is safe for neighboring
broad leaved and other crops.

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systemic post
emergence
herbicide
Rice was domesticated as early as 3500 BC, and by about 2,000
years ago it was grown in almost all of the present-day
cultivation areas, predominantly deltas, floodplains and coastal
plains, and some terraced valley slopes. Many paddies are
flooded by rivers and rainfall during monsoon season, while
others must be irrigated .
PADDY
There are many damages caused by weeds.
Weeds are harmful in many ways for rice crop.
Weeds compete with paddy for water, nutrients
and light.
There are many damages caused by weeds. Weeds
are harmful in many ways for rice crop. Weeds
compete with paddy for water, nutrients and light.

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emergence
herbicide
Rice was domesticated as early as 3500 BC, and by about 2,000
years ago it was grown in almost all of the present-day
cultivation areas, predominantly deltas, floodplains and coastal
plains, and some terraced valley slopes. Many paddies are
flooded by rivers and rainfall during monsoon season, while
others must be irrigated .
PADDY
There are many damages caused by weeds.
Weeds are harmful in many ways for rice crop.
Weeds compete with paddy for water, nutrients
and light.
There are many damages caused by weeds. Weeds
are harmful in many ways for rice crop. Weeds
compete with paddy for water, nutrients and light.

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It is an erect or prostrate,
branched (occasionally rooting at
nodes) annual herb upto 30-40
cm high. Stem is cylindrical or flat,
rough due to appressed white
hairs, nodes distinct and greenish
occasionally brownish.
Parviflora Water Primrose is an
erect weed. Leaves 2-6 x 0.5-15
cm, elliptic-lanceolate, base
narrowed, tip pointed to long-
pointed, hairless. Flowers are
stalkless, yellow, 4-merous. Sepal
tube is adnate to ovary, sepals
lobes 4, about 2 mm long, ovate
long-pointed. Petals are 4-5 mm
long, elliptic, yellow. Stamens are
4, filaments short.
Eclipta Alba Ludwigia parviflora

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It is an erect or prostrate,
branched (occasionally rooting at
nodes) annual herb upto 30-40
cm high. Stem is cylindrical or flat,
rough due to appressed white
hairs, nodes distinct and greenish
occasionally brownish.
Parviflora Water Primrose is an
erect weed. Leaves 2-6 x 0.5-15
cm, elliptic-lanceolate, base
narrowed, tip pointed to long-
pointed, hairless. Flowers are
stalkless, yellow, 4-merous. Sepal
tube is adnate to ovary, sepals
lobes 4, about 2 mm long, ovate
long-pointed. Petals are 4-5 mm
long, elliptic, yellow. Stamens are
4, filaments short.
Eclipta Alba Ludwigia parviflora

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This plant is not a true clover but
actually an aquatic fern, with
simple, delicate, four-lobed
leaves. The plant can change its
leaf colouration and growth habit
considerably depending on
growing conditions
Sphenoclea zeylanica is a
branched annual herb, growing
up to 1.5 m tall with hollow stems.
Roots are fibrous, white to brown.
Leaves are lanceshaped,
narrowly ovate to elliptic, up to 12
x 5 cm, hairless, margin entire,
stalk up to 1.5 cm long. Flowers
are borne in conical-cylindric
spikes up to 12 cm long. Flowers
very small, white, greenish or pink
yellow. Fruit is a capsule, 4-5 mm
in diameter, splitting below the
sepals, leaving the base attached
to the rhachis.
Sphenochlea zeylanica Marsilea quadrifolia

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This plant is not a true clover but
actually an aquatic fern, with
simple, delicate, four-lobed
leaves. The plant can change its
leaf colouration and growth habit
considerably depending on
growing conditions
Sphenoclea zeylanica is a
branched annual herb, growing
up to 1.5 m tall with hollow stems.
Roots are fibrous, white to brown.
Leaves are lanceshaped,
narrowly ovate to elliptic, up to 12
x 5 cm, hairless, margin entire,
stalk up to 1.5 cm long. Flowers
are borne in conical-cylindric
spikes up to 12 cm long. Flowers
very small, white, greenish or pink
yellow. Fruit is a capsule, 4-5 mm
in diameter, splitting below the
sepals, leaving the base attached
to the rhachis.
Sphenochlea zeylanica Marsilea quadrifolia

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Fimbristylis miliacea is an annual
sedge which grows in clumps of
erect stems up to about half a
meter in height surrounded by
fans of narrow flat leaves. The top
of each stem is occupied by an
array of spikelets, each borne on a
long peduncle. The spikelet is
spherical to ovate and reddish
brown in colour. The spikelets
flower and then develop tiny
fruits, which are brown achenes
about a millimetre long.
Bengal Dayflower is a diffuse herb,
rooting at lower nodes, rootstock
with self-pollinating flowers. Leaves
are 3-5 x 2-3.5 cm, ovate or elliptic-
ovate, base rounded or almost flat,
tip blunt or pointed, velvet-hairy,
margin frilly, stalk up to 8 mm long,
sheath up to 1.5 cm long, tip with
rusty hairs. Spathe is about 1.5 cm
across, funnel-shaped, flat at apex,
velvet-hairy. Sepals are nearly equal,
about 2.5 mm long, outer ones linear,
inner ones orbicular. Petals are blue,
larger ones about 4 x 4.5 mm, broadly
ovate.
Commelina benghalensis Firnbristylis miliucea

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Fimbristylis miliacea is an annual
sedge which grows in clumps of
erect stems up to about half a
meter in height surrounded by
fans of narrow flat leaves. The top
of each stem is occupied by an
array of spikelets, each borne on a
long peduncle. The spikelet is
spherical to ovate and reddish
brown in colour. The spikelets
flower and then develop tiny
fruits, which are brown achenes
about a millimetre long.
Bengal Dayflower is a diffuse herb,
rooting at lower nodes, rootstock
with self-pollinating flowers. Leaves
are 3-5 x 2-3.5 cm, ovate or elliptic-
ovate, base rounded or almost flat,
tip blunt or pointed, velvet-hairy,
margin frilly, stalk up to 8 mm long,
sheath up to 1.5 cm long, tip with
rusty hairs. Spathe is about 1.5 cm
across, funnel-shaped, flat at apex,
velvet-hairy. Sepals are nearly equal,
about 2.5 mm long, outer ones linear,
inner ones orbicular. Petals are blue,
larger ones about 4 x 4.5 mm, broadly
ovate.
Commelina benghalensis Firnbristylis miliucea

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Caesulia is a monotypic genus of
flowering plants in the aster family,
Asteraceae, containing the single
species Caesulia axillaris. Its
common name is pink node flower.
Pink Node Flower is an erect annual
herb, 15-50 cm tall. Stem is stout,
pink, succulent, swollen at nodes.
Alternately arranged stalkless
leaves 4-15 cm long, lanceshaped,
pointed, distantly toothed, narrow at
base. Stalkless flowers-heads, 1-2
cm across, are borne in leaf axils.
Flowers are white, tubular with 5
linear petals. Pink Node Flower is
found in moist places on the
Coromandel Coast, common in rice
fields.
Caesulia Axillaris
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain
which is a worldwide staple food. Wheat is one of the oldest and
most important of the cereal crops. The wheat plant has long
slender leaves and stems that are hollow in most varieties.
WHEAT

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Caesulia is a monotypic genus of
flowering plants in the aster family,
Asteraceae, containing the single
species Caesulia axillaris. Its
common name is pink node flower.
Pink Node Flower is an erect annual
herb, 15-50 cm tall. Stem is stout,
pink, succulent, swollen at nodes.
Alternately arranged stalkless
leaves 4-15 cm long, lanceshaped,
pointed, distantly toothed, narrow at
base. Stalkless flowers-heads, 1-2
cm across, are borne in leaf axils.
Flowers are white, tubular with 5
linear petals. Pink Node Flower is
found in moist places on the
Coromandel Coast, common in rice
fields.
Caesulia Axillaris
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain
which is a worldwide staple food. Wheat is one of the oldest and
most important of the cereal crops. The wheat plant has long
slender leaves and stems that are hollow in most varieties.
WHEAT

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Bathua is a fast-growing, upright,
weedy annual species of goosefoot,
very common in temperate regions,
growing almost everywhere in soils
rich in nitrogen, especially on
wasteland. Its pollen can contribute to
hayfever-like allergies. It tends to grow
upright at first, reaching heights of 30-
80 cm, but typically becomes
recumbent after flowering (due to the
weight of the foliage and seeds) unless
supported by other plants. The
opposite leaves can be very varied in
appearance. The first leaves, near the
base of the plant, are toothed and
roughly diamond-shaped, 3-7 cm long
and 3-6 cm broad.
Indian Sweet Clover is an annual herb
with hairless stem, spreading or
erect, 10-60 cm. The flowers and
leaves have a mild perfume scented
fragrance, hence the common name.
Leaves are trifoliate, leaflets 1-2.5 cm,
inverted lance-shaped to wedge-
shaped-obovate, generally sharply
toothed on the broader part. Yellow
flowers appear in slender, compact
racemes that are 1-2 inches in length.
Flowers have a 1-1.5 mm long sepal
cup, and are 2.5-3 mm long, yellow in
color. Nine filaments are fused, 1 free.
Flowering: January-March.
Melilotus indica
Chenopodium album

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Bathua is a fast-growing, upright,
weedy annual species of goosefoot,
very common in temperate regions,
growing almost everywhere in soils
rich in nitrogen, especially on
wasteland. Its pollen can contribute to
hayfever-like allergies. It tends to grow
upright at first, reaching heights of 30-
80 cm, but typically becomes
recumbent after flowering (due to the
weight of the foliage and seeds) unless
supported by other plants. The
opposite leaves can be very varied in
appearance. The first leaves, near the
base of the plant, are toothed and
roughly diamond-shaped, 3-7 cm long
and 3-6 cm broad.
Indian Sweet Clover is an annual herb
with hairless stem, spreading or
erect, 10-60 cm. The flowers and
leaves have a mild perfume scented
fragrance, hence the common name.
Leaves are trifoliate, leaflets 1-2.5 cm,
inverted lance-shaped to wedge-
shaped-obovate, generally sharply
toothed on the broader part. Yellow
flowers appear in slender, compact
racemes that are 1-2 inches in length.
Flowers have a 1-1.5 mm long sepal
cup, and are 2.5-3 mm long, yellow in
color. Nine filaments are fused, 1 free.
Flowering: January-March.
Melilotus indica
Chenopodium album

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White Sweet Clover is the white cousin
of the yellow Indian Sweet Clover. It is a
biennial legume with compound
leaves consisting of 3-leaflets. Leaflets
oblong or oblanceolate, 1-2.5 cm long,
8-12 mm wide, without hair above and
having appressed hairs below. Leaflet
margins serrated halfway or more back
from the apex. Flowers are small,
white, arranged in many-flowered
racemes in leaf axils and at the end of
branches. Fruit is a legume, dark brown
to black at maturity, ovoid, 2.5-4 mm
long, without hairs, and cross-ribbed.
Vicia sativa, known as the common
vetch, garden vetch, tare or simply
vetch, is a nitrogen-fixing
leguminous plant in the family
Fabaceae. Although considered a
weed when found growing in a
cultivated grainfield, this hardy plant
is often grown as green manure or
livestock fodder
Vicia saliva Melilotus Alba

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White Sweet Clover is the white cousin
of the yellow Indian Sweet Clover. It is a
biennial legume with compound
leaves consisting of 3-leaflets. Leaflets
oblong or oblanceolate, 1-2.5 cm long,
8-12 mm wide, without hair above and
having appressed hairs below. Leaflet
margins serrated halfway or more back
from the apex. Flowers are small,
white, arranged in many-flowered
racemes in leaf axils and at the end of
branches. Fruit is a legume, dark brown
to black at maturity, ovoid, 2.5-4 mm
long, without hairs, and cross-ribbed.
Vicia sativa, known as the common
vetch, garden vetch, tare or simply
vetch, is a nitrogen-fixing
leguminous plant in the family
Fabaceae. Although considered a
weed when found growing in a
cultivated grainfield, this hardy plant
is often grown as green manure or
livestock fodder
Vicia saliva Melilotus Alba

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This is a small, low-growing annual
(living its life-cycle within 1 year) trailing
plant which can have stems up to 30
cm in length. It does not have a rosette
nor does it root at the nodes. It spreads
from a base in the centre. Stems are
fleshy and square in cross section.
Leaves are opposite, soft and oval-
shaped. Flowers are solitary, small,
pink/red/orange or blue with 5 petals
between which can be seen 5 green
pointed sepals. It flowers in Spring.
Anagallis arvensis
Creeping Thistle is a tall herbaceous
perennial plant growing 1-3 ft, forming
extensive clonal colonies from an
underground root system that sends up
numerous erect stems each spring,
reaching 1–1.2 m tall. The stems often lie
partly flat by summer but can stay erect if
supported by other vegetation. The leaves
are very spiny, lobed, up to 15–20 cm long
and 2–3 cm broad, smaller on the upper
part of the flower stem. The flower-heads
are 1-2.2 cm in diameter, pink-purple, with
all the florets of similar form (no division
into disc and ray florets). The seeds are 4–5
mm long, with a feathery pappus which
assists in wind dispersal.
Cirsium Arvensis

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This is a small, low-growing annual
(living its life-cycle within 1 year) trailing
plant which can have stems up to 30
cm in length. It does not have a rosette
nor does it root at the nodes. It spreads
from a base in the centre. Stems are
fleshy and square in cross section.
Leaves are opposite, soft and oval-
shaped. Flowers are solitary, small,
pink/red/orange or blue with 5 petals
between which can be seen 5 green
pointed sepals. It flowers in Spring.
Anagallis arvensis
Creeping Thistle is a tall herbaceous
perennial plant growing 1-3 ft, forming
extensive clonal colonies from an
underground root system that sends up
numerous erect stems each spring,
reaching 1–1.2 m tall. The stems often lie
partly flat by summer but can stay erect if
supported by other vegetation. The leaves
are very spiny, lobed, up to 15–20 cm long
and 2–3 cm broad, smaller on the upper
part of the flower stem. The flower-heads
are 1-2.2 cm in diameter, pink-purple, with
all the florets of similar form (no division
into disc and ray florets). The seeds are 4–5
mm long, with a feathery pappus which
assists in wind dispersal.
Cirsium Arvensis

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Tiny Vetch is an annual herb producing
a slender, often four-sided, hairless to
lightly hairy, climbing stem up to 70-90
cm tall, and known to well exceed 1 m
at times. The leaves are tipped with
tendrils that support the plant as it
climbs. The leaves are made up of up
to 10 pairs of elongated leaflets, each
up to 2 cm in length with notched, flat,
sharply pointed, or toothed tips.
Flowers are borne in a raceme of up to
8 flowers borne near the tip and often
on one side only. Each flower is whitish
or pale blue, just a few mm in length,
and short-lived.
Yellow Pea is a trailing or scrambling
annual plant. Stem is not winged,
hairless. Stipules are leaf-like, 5-30
mm long, broadly ovate, arrow-
shaped, rest of the leaf reduced to a
tendril. Flowers are borne in a 1-2-
flowered raceme in leaf axils.
Peduncle is 1-4 times as long as the
stipules. Calyx is 3-9 mm long, teeth
equal to 3 times as long as the tube.
Flowers are bright to pale yellow.
Lathyrus aphacaVicia hirsua

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Tiny Vetch is an annual herb producing
a slender, often four-sided, hairless to
lightly hairy, climbing stem up to 70-90
cm tall, and known to well exceed 1 m
at times. The leaves are tipped with
tendrils that support the plant as it
climbs. The leaves are made up of up
to 10 pairs of elongated leaflets, each
up to 2 cm in length with notched, flat,
sharply pointed, or toothed tips.
Flowers are borne in a raceme of up to
8 flowers borne near the tip and often
on one side only. Each flower is whitish
or pale blue, just a few mm in length,
and short-lived.
Yellow Pea is a trailing or scrambling
annual plant. Stem is not winged,
hairless. Stipules are leaf-like, 5-30
mm long, broadly ovate, arrow-
shaped, rest of the leaf reduced to a
tendril. Flowers are borne in a 1-2-
flowered raceme in leaf axils.
Peduncle is 1-4 times as long as the
stipules. Calyx is 3-9 mm long, teeth
equal to 3 times as long as the tube.
Flowers are bright to pale yellow.
Lathyrus aphacaVicia hirsua

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