<Objectives>
Weeds inhabit everywhere such as farmlands, amenity places and our
living environment. Weeds are troublesome intruders for mankind, therefore,
the appropriate control is usually desired. On the other hand, weeds are
potential contributors to preserve our surroundings, such as restoration
of damaged and poor lands. WSSJ consists of people who are playing active
parts in weed research in viewpoints from principle to practical aspects.
WSSJ aims at contributing to the prevention of weed damage and to the utilization
of weed value by providing the chance of research presentation and information
exchange.
<History>
Crop yields decreased due to various biological factors such as damage
from plant diseases, harmful insects and weeds. Many ideas and inventions
have been made to remove or prevent these adverse effects so far from the
ancient times. However, with respect to weed control, there was no other
way but hand weeding, which was physical and spiritual burden for farmers,
before the launch of herbicides. In addition, the number of farmers has
reduced and the aging progressed in rural areas owing to remarkable outflow
of young labor force to the cities because of promotion and development
of industrialization in Japan since 1960's. Therefore, invention of easy
but effective weed control technology has been strongly desired.
Under these circumstances, collaborating scientists from various
fields of specialization founded "The Weed Society of Japan"
in January 1962 in order to establish rational and effective weed management
technology. Then, the Society had been satisfactorily developing and was
renamed into "Weed Science Society of Japan" (WSSJ) in April
1975, which simultaneously joined the Association of Japanese Agricultural
Scientific Societies. WSSJ was also affiliated with the International Weed
Science Society in 1977.
WSSJ has played important roles to establish "Weed Science"
as an original field in agronomy, and to provide occasions for information
exchange on weed science in wide views in Japan and other Asia-Pacific
regions via our own journals/books, annual meetings, symposiums and so
forth.
<Major activities of WSSJ>
・ To hold the annual meeting (usually April) and the Symposium (September)
・ To publish the journals of WSSJ, "Journal of Weed Science and Technology" in Japanese and "Weed Biology and Management" in English.
・ To confer the Research Awards
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