Under organic farming conditions the labour requirement is the highest cost in the production of vegetable crops. In both carrots and onions there is a need for large hand-weeding inputs due to the weak competitive ability of both crops. Growing onions and carrots require a large amount of hand-weeding in the row, even when very accurate mechanical row-cultivation is performed.Weed control with flame is, profitable and very labour saving. The results proved that a considerable reduction in number of weeds and consequently in labour requirements for handweeding can be achieved, as well in onions, as in carrots. The yields from flamed trials have showed a slight reduction in both crops.
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