In Assam, ninety-six numbers of different tea and ex-tea garden tribes are residing mainly in the “Labour Lines” within the Tea Estates (TE) and neighbouring villages of TEs. Like other communities of Assam, raising plants as bio fencing as well as in the backyard garden is a tra...
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Aim: To evaluate the allelopathic potential of Lantana camara, an invasive weed known for its phenolic and aromatic alkaloid allelochemicals, for its effects on the seed germination and early seedling growth and vigour of three agricultural crops maize (Zea mays), wheat (Triticum...
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Soil pollution, characterized by the presence of harmful chemicals or substances in concentrations that adversely affect non-target organisms, is a growing environmental concern. The projected global population increase of 2 billion over the next 30 years has intensified the dema...
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Farmers in Assam's North Bank Plains Zone are generally resource-poor and have limited adaptation ability; rainfall anomalies make the Zone's rainfed agriculture very sensitive, risky, and unprofitable. Participatory on-farm trials involving 25 farmers (5 from each village) repre...
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