WEEDZAPPING - New project about low-energy electrical weed control

WEEDZAPPING: Electric weed control with low energy use is a new project financed by the Swedish farmers’ foundation for agricultural research, where a novel method for electrical weed control will be tested. This method which is developed by Enlightened Detection AB can potentially solve the problems that electrical weed control has traditionally struggled with (high energy consumption, risk of fire, health risk for the operators, slow treatment times) since it uses significantly less energy than the methods currently on the market, it meets all security demands for equipment on the Swedish market, and it can quickly kill small weed plants. 

Electrical weed control has many benefits such as that it does not leave any chemical residue (and is thus suitable for organic farming and in water protection areas), can control both annual and perennial weeds and increases the resilience of agriculture since electricity can easily be produced anywhere and in many different ways.

Read more about the project on the project page.