A study was conducted to assess the soil carbon storage as different soil carbon pools in acid sulphate soils of Kuttanad, Kerala under different land uses and mapping of carbon stock using GIS. Surface soil samples (0-15 cm) were collected from three agricultural land use system...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2130833
The study was conducted to identify the socioeconomic status, assess costs and returns of broiler farms in Perambalur District of Tamil Nadu state in India. The primary data were collected from 30 respondents through face to face interview during the period between November 2019...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2130829
The experiment was conducted on integrated nutrient management, dates of sowing and fertilizer levels in pearl millet based cropping sequence. The pearl millet crop was sown during kharif and Bengal gram, French bean crops were sown during rabi season as sequence crops to find ou...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2130827
Aims: An awareness and knowledge retention study w.r.t animal feed technologies was conducted on 115 students of BVSc & AH. Study Design: It was a pre, post and delayed post test study. Place of Study: Guru Angad Dev Veterinary &Animal Sciences University Ludhiana India....
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2130828
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2, originated in Wuhan, China in late 2019 has created a massive pandemic; the disease manifested by the virus was named as COVID-19 by World Health Organization. It has appeared as an unprecedented threat against the global healt...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2130825
A GPS based soil sampling and testing was done in 10 blocks of Birbhum district under monitoring of Rathindra Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Birbhum during 2018 and 2019. In this regard, some soil chemical properties were analysed through Mridaparikshak (soil testing kit). After statistic...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2130824
Ganesh Das, Sankar Saha, F. H. Rahman, Surajit Sarkar, Sujan Biswas, Sandip Hembram, Prashanta Barman, Samima Sultana, Bikash Roy & Bablu Ganguly·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2020
Terai region of West Bengal fall under high rainfall region but 90% rainfall occurs in kharif season and drought observed during rabi season. NICRA project started in the Cooch Behar District during 2011. The project area and plan of work were selected on the basis of participat...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2130818
The traditionally used plants having therapeutically potent phyto-chemicals are known to have a great potential in the treatment of various ailments including the non-communicable ones like obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart diseases etc. Diabetes is a serious metabolic disor...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2130819
Genotypic source of variations were significant for all characters in 168 genotypes including 7 checks of Indian mustard at 5% level of significance. Maximum seed yield per plant (g) and harvest index was recorded in MRNJ-82; whereas, the minimum days to 50% flowering and maturit...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2130820
The reduction of household wastes has been a pressing issue and is a key element of waste management programme in India. The goal of present research was to evaluate the ongoing Household Waste Management Practices (HWMPs) of the University in managing the waste generated within...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i2130821
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