ABSTRACT
The greater adaptability of the Parthenium hysterophorus L. over other weeds facilitates its growth and development under different ecological conditions, including agricultural fields. This toxic weed causes enormous loss to biodiversity, agriculture productivity, cattle health, and others. The physiochemical approaches that have been employed for control/management of this fast-flourishing weed are found to be environmentally unfriendly. Thus, it is still a bottleneck in controlling/managing the Parthenium population. In this context, Parthenium can be controlled/managed with the production of organic biofertilizer through biogenic strategies. Such process facilitates “parthenin” (that is primarily accountable towards the toxicity as well as allelopathy of P. hysterophorus) to undergo complete disintegration. Overall, this chapter summarizes not only the biogenic approaches for control/management of toxic Parthenium weed but also the processing of this weed into organic fertilizers, thereby paving a way towards its sustainable control.
