Under the changing climatic scenarios, sustaining agricultural production and enhancing input use efficiency is highly crucial to ensure food security in future. As crop productivity is considerably affected by soil characteristics such as soil organic carbon (SOC), nutrient avai...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3931104
The study aimed to estimate the phenotypic variability for LTN as well as yield traits, genotypic variability for Lr34, Lr46 and Lr67 and to investigate the association between genotypic and phenotypic variability for LTN and yield traits. Two hundred fifty wheat genotypes were s...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3931105
Aim: To isolate, characterize and optimize the growth parameters for mass multiplication of Actinobacteria. Place and Duration of Work: The study was carried out in Department of Agricultural Microbiology, GKVK, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore during 2019-20. Metho...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3831096
Weeding is an important and labour intensive agricultural operation and about 1/3rd of the cost of cultivation is accounted towards weed control operation alone. Any delay and negligence in weeding operation effects the crop yields up to 30-40%. Today the agricultural sector requ...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3831097
The present study was conducted in Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Wyra adopted villages in Khammam District of Telangana. Tomato is an important vegetable crop in the district but the yields are not up to expectations due to poor quality, early decay, pests and disease incidence. An effor...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3931098
Aims: This text aims to improve the accuracy of plant leaf disease detection using a fused convolutional neural network architecture Study Design: In this study, propose a hybrid CNN architecture, that adds a bio-inspired layer to the existing CNN architecture in order to improv...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3931099
The study was undertaken in North of Bengaluru to analyze transaction cost involved in borrowing agricultural credit from formal and informal sources and to identify the factors influencing the borrowers’ transaction cost across rural-urban interface. The data was collected from...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3931100
A pot study was conducted during kharif, 2018-19 in College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, PJTSAU, Hyderabad, with the aim to evaluate the response of maize to different levels of zeolite and nitrogen and to know the influence of zeolite on selected soil properties. The treatment...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3831090
Aims: this study aims to find out appropriate method of application and the optimum dose of calcium carbide required to initiate ripening of mango var. “Kent”. Study Design: The experimental set-up was of a completely randomized design. Place and Duration of Study: This study was...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3831092
In plants, Iron is an important micronutrient which is required for various processes like photosynthesis, respiration and for balanced redox potential. Iron has a significant role in human nutrition. Therefore, increasing the Fe content of economical parts through conventional,...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3831091