In any plantation establishment programme there should be adequate number of healthy seedlings and this depends on the nutrition and care given to them at the nursery stage. Pot experiment was conducted to assess the response of Moringa oleifera (Lam) seedlings to different soil...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v29i430148
Background: Lowering the nitrogen demand is the most cost effective and sustainable option to increase grain yield of maize in poor fertility soil. Aim: This study was conducted to estimate the variability and inter-traits’ association of white and yellow hybrid maize in soil nit...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v29i430147
Potatoes are one of the most common and important vegetable crops in the world and carrying different health benefits that make them all the more essential as a staple dietary item for much of the world’s population. The high nutrient content, ability to adapt to marginal environ...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v29i330146
Conservation agriculture is claimed to be one of the solutions for the problems of poor agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan countries. The impact of conservation agriculture depends on environmental factors such as slope, vegetation, soil type, rain fall pattern and intended...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v29i330143
Edna Maria Bonfim-Silva, Juliane de Souza Beltrão, Raphael Pereira França de Paula, Wellington Fava Roque, Ana Paula Alves Barreto Damasceno & Jefferson Vieira José·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2019
Aims: The objective of this study was to evaluate the development of giant Crimson radish cultivated in a oxisol under phosphate fertilizer sources (natural phosphate, triple superphosphate, natural phosphate + triple superphosphate and control) associated with water availabiliti...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v29i330144
Variability in crop response and nutrient use efficiencies to fertilizer application is quite common under varying soil and climatic conditions. Understanding such variability is vital to develop farm- and area- specific soil nutrient management and fertilizer recommendations. He...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v29i330141
Organic Agriculture sustain and enhance the health of soil, plant, animal, human and planet as one and indivisible. The experiment was carried out at Agriculture experimental field, Nehru PG collage Lalitpur (U.P.) during 2014-15. Lalitpur district is a part of Bundelkhand platea...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v29i330142
The short shelf-life of fruits in the tropics continues to be a pressing problem for farmers and other value chain actors. Hexanal is a naturally occurring compound that has received attention as a novel postharvest compound preservative. This study was conducted to determine the...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v29i230140
A study was carried out to assess local knowledge about soil suitability in four villages in the Ejisu- Juabeng District in the Ashanti region of Ghana. This study described two approaches in soil mapping using geopedologic approach promoted by Zinck (1988) and the farmer approac...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v29i230139
The study aims to investigate the effects of the medicinal plants {seeds} on the reproductive hormones and sperm profile of male albino rats to ascertain their possible usefulness as fertility agent. Walnuts [Tetracarpidium conophorum], Sesame (Sesamine indicum), and Velvet be...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2019/v29i230138