Rice is the single largest source of food energy for more than half of the world’s population. Salinity may be a serious environmental constraint to crop production. Salinity screening of twenty rice genotypes were performed at the reproductive stages, in the net house of departm...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i1330680
Dawood Yousuf, M. A. Dar, Noor Ul Islam Wani, . Habibullah, Uzma Rashid, Shijaatt Hussain Bhat, Khalid Rasool Dar, Showkat Maqbool & K. A. Sahaf·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2020
The study was conducted in horticulture zone Tangmarg of district Baramulla of Jammu and Kashmir. Horticulture Zone Tangmarg comprises of 65 villages out of which 35 villages were under cherry cultivation, from 35 villages 06 villages were selected purposively on the basis of max...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i1330681
The study was undertaken in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh to assess the prices and profitability of chilli marketing. The study used both primary and secondary data collection. The elasticity coefficients for area (1.177) and material costs (3.699) were positively significant...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i1230669
An experiment for the management of purple blotch of onion (Allium cepa L.) caused by Alternaria porri (Ellis) was carried out in Hanumanamatti research farm, College of Agriculture, Hanumanamatti, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, during 2017-18 and 2018-19. There w...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i1230670
Genetic divergence analysis, using Mahalanobis D2 statistics, was carried out in twenty one cucumber genotypes including one check for fourteen characters. All the characters under study showed considerable divergence and the genotypes were grouped into four clusters. The cluster...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i1230672
Soil organic carbon (SOC) and its labile fractions are strong determinants of soil chemical, physical, and biological properties and the recycling of crop residues is an important factor affecting soil organic matter levels and soil quality. This collected review literature speci...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i1230666
This study investigated the degree of influence of moisture content on some physical properties of nutmeg. The nutmeg seeds were subjected to six different levels of moisture content (5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15% db). Moisture content had a significant effect on the physical propertie...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i1230665
Though cucumber is mainly grown during pre-kharifand kharif season, but farmers of Teesta flood plains of Terai region prefer to grow this very crop during rabi season because of its high market demand and price during this period of year. This region experiences extreme cold dur...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i1230667
Several advantages of rotavator including negative draft generation make it the most suitable attachment to power tiller. Many factors affect the economy and performance of power tiller which includes specific energy consumption, resourceful use of available power, produced soil...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i1230668
False smut of rice caused by Ustilaginoidea virens is most destructive disease of rice causing 5-85 per cent yield losses in India. In the present investigations, six novel fungicides viz., Flusilazole 25% + Carbendazim 12.5% SE, Trifloxystrobin 25% + Tebuconazole 50% WG, Carbend...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i1230658