Biofortification of food crops using conventional breeding or biotechnological approach is gaining momentum to alleviate micronutrient malnutrition. Rice is a nice choice for biofortification of grain iron and zinc content as this is a cheap and chief staple food for millions of...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2130822
Globally, precipitation trend analysis in different space and time has great impact on crop-planning activities. To get accurate unbiased results a long-term climate analysis of a particular area required in large variability in both spatially, temporally. For sustainable crop pr...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2030814
The study was carried out with 32 genotypes of rice (Oryza sativa L.) under irrigated system in RBD design with three replications at Agricultural Research Station, Kunaram in Telangana State during the rainy season of 2017. In general, major problem is high incidence of gall mid...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2030815
A field experiment was conducted at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, during summer 2019 to study about the changes in physiological parameters of rice under various establishment and water management stra...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2030816
A field experiment was conducted during three seasons of 2018-19 at RPCAU, Pusa to evaluate the Effect of Residue Management and Cropping Systems on direct seeded rice and System productivity. Treatments comprised cropping systems in main plots: C1 - Rice - Wheat - Fallow, C2 - R...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2030832
Aims: The study employed ordered logistic regression to assess the determinants of livelihood security of the organic farm households in Sikkim (India). Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in three blocks of East Sikkim district (viz. Martam, Nangdok and Ranka) b...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2030848
Women, who try to enter the field of industry in either managerial or entrepreneurial role, are generally exposed to various constraints. Though the entrepreneurial process is the same for men and women, there are however, in practice, women have to confront many additional probl...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2130817
Biweekly block level Agromet bulletins were disseminated based on medium range weather forecast with an objective to assess the effectiveness and usefulness of Block level Agro Advisory Services (AAS) and quantify the economic benefits through adopting the micro scale agromet adv...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2030812
The present study was investigated to detect polymorphic patterns of the keratin-associated protein (KAP) 6.1 gene in 54 numbers of Nilagiri and 20 numbers of Dorset x Nilagiri breeds of sheep. DNA was isolated and amplified with ovine specific primers of KAP 6.1 gene. Allele fre...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2030813
A Field experiment was conducted during the Kharif season of 2018 at Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour (Bihar) to evaluate the performance of different herbicides in aerobic rice (Oryza sativa L). Weed management had a positive influence on growth, yield attributes and yield...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2030810