The genus Brassica is one of the most important oil seed crops in India with high degree of genetic diversity. In present study, genetic diversity was studied in forty germplasm lines and eight cultivars of Indian mustard using morphological traits and SSR markers. Morphological...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831234
M. Suresh, R. V. T. Balazzi Naaiik, B. Kranthi Kumar, P. Vijaykumar, M. Swetha, D. Vijayalaxmi, B. V. Rajkumar, M. Bhavya Manjari & C. Padmaveni·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2020
The present study was conducted under Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Rudrur operational area during 2017-18 to 2019-20 in the rabi seasons with 150 frontline demonstrations across twenty three villages, seven mandals of Nizamabad district of Telangana. The results of demonstrations...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831236
Aims: Increased usage of health apps has led to need for their quality assessment for safeguarding interest of various stakeholders. This study attempts to undertake qualitative assessment of health apps in an emerging market, India. Study Design: Health apps were evaluated by th...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831237
An observational study was carried out to assess the soil fertility attributes of three districts (i.e. Jhansi, Datia and Tikamgarh) of the Bundelkhand region of central India. Soil samples were collected randomly from 0-15 cm soil depth using a soil auger with a diameter of 5 cm...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831238
In this paper Finite element method (FEM) for design and development of self- propelled foliar applicator is presented. Foliar application is a method for feeding nutrients directly to plants for enhancing nutrient use efficiency through foliar applicator. The major components of...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831245
K. Ravi Shankar, K. Nagasree, G. Nirmala, C. A. Rama Rao, B. M. K. Raju, C. N. Anshida Beevi, Jagriti Rohit, P. K. Pankaj, D. B. V. Ramana, I. Srinivas, S. Vijaya Kumar, K. Sindhu & Ch. Srinivasa Rao·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2020
The effects of climate change on agriculture are being witnessed all over the world. Rainfed agriculture is likely to be impacted severely in view of its’ high dependency on monsoon, the likelihood of increased extreme weather events due to aberrant behavior of south west monsoon...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831246
Palmyrah palm has great economic potential and every part of the palm is useful in one way or the other.The palm is found growing widely in southern states of India. The palmyrah products like tender fruit endosperm (nungu), neera, jaggery and tuber flour are not commercialised a...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831248
Phalaris minor and Cynodon dactylon is the very problematic grassy weeds of wheat crop are responsible for significant yield reduction. Therefore, the present experiment was conducted at CSAUAT, Kanpur during Rabi season 2017-18 and 2018-19 in split-plot design with four replicat...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831253
The aim of this study is to develop an attitude scale to measure the attitude of farmers towards backward and forward linkages in cotton cultivation. It has been a long time need for a proper scale to measure the attitude of farmers towards backward and forward linkages in cotton...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831254
The effect of post-harvest application of calcium chloride (CaCl2) and gibberellic acid (GA3) on physiochemical properties of ber fruits were studied. Mature ber fruits cv. Umran were dipped in aqueous solutions of calcium chloride (0.5, 1.0 and 1.5%) and gibberellic acid (20, 40...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831255