Aims: To design a mechanical transplanting mechanism for tissue culture banana plantlets, physical and mechanical properties such as mass, height of plantlet, pseudostem height from tray to first leaf, pseudostem diameter between root plug and first leaf, root plug dimension, moi...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3030972
Cognitive dissonance is a phenomenon which will be created based on the discomfort experience when two cognitions are mismatch with each other. This study reviews some literature (nearly twenty-five (25) articles based on cognitive dissonance in past to give a clear picture regar...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3030970
The present experimental work entitled “Character Association of Different Varieties of Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) under Ranchi condition.” has been worked out in the research field of Department of Horticulture, Ranchi Agriculture College, Birsa Agricultural University, Kanke,...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3030969
This research was carried out to determine the effects of yeast concentration and total soluble solids on the quality of wine produced from pineapple. The experiment was a Response Surface Methodology in the form of Rotatable Central Composite Design (RCCD). Ripe pineapple fruit...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3030968
The study was undertaken in North of Bengaluru to analyse the investment pattern, crop diversification and farm household’s income across rural-urban interface. The required data was collected from randomly selected 80 farmers each under rural, transition and urban gradients. Tob...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3030965
Water footprints (WFs) of rice are quite higher viz. 992 billion cubic metres per year (Gm3 yr−1) than from the other cereals which further responsible for the lower water productivity. Out of global WFs for crop production viz. 7404 Gm3 yr−1 corresponds to 78 % green, 12 % blue,...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i3030966
This study allowed appreciating hygrothermal behavior, thermal comfort and the visual comfort of an existing Nubian vaulted building in the city of Ouagadougou. To achieve that purpose, we measured parameters such as the temperature and relative humidity of the indoor and outdoor...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2930963
This work probes the kinetics and thermodynamics of adsorption of methylene blue (MB) from aqueous phase on a templated carbon (TC) synthesized from polyfurfuryl alcohol using kaolinite template at 773 K; and activated carbon produced by the pyrolysis of H3PO4-impregnated Moringa...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2930964
Breeding for drought tolerance revolves around selection of genotypes with desirable root characters. Root pattern studies in rice have shown significant relationship with drought tolerance. In order to understand the effects of deep rooting pattern and root growth angle in relat...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2930960
Aims: To delineate the general status of pulse cultivation and enterprise in West Bengal and estimate the nature, level and direction of interactive relationships among the dependent variables, wages and man-days required in pulse crop cultivation, a set of economic and ecologica...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2930961