A field experiment was conducted during Kharif season 2016 at Research Farm of Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Jharkhand to study productivity and profitability of transplanted rice (Oryza sativa L.) as influenced by the split application of neem coated urea. The experimen...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45877
Allelopathic effect of three medicinal plant species viz. Costus speciosus, Tinospora cordifolia and Coleus forskohli was examined on seed germination and seedling growth of four (Pusa gold, HD2733, VL-914, RSP 561) popular wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Varieties. The aqueous lea...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45880
Water stress is a major factor limiting rice production and cause a severe threat to rice production. Study of relationships of morphological traits and analysis of relationships between grain yield is a useful way to finding out genetic basis of drought tolerance. Six rice varie...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45881
A study on the fish farmers' socio-economic and demographical Profile was carried out in Darbhanga districts of Bihar states during 2016-17. The findings revealed that majority of the respondents (45.00%) belonged to middle age group. 35 per cent belonged to extremely backward ca...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45882
Aims: To evaluate twenty brinjal varieties for suitable parent selection in yield aspects. Study Design: The experiment was carried out in Randomized Block Design (RBD) with three replications. Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried out at Horticulture Experiment Stat...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45883
An experiment was conducted in Bihar Agricultural University, at Nalanda College of Horticulture, Noorsarai, during kharif season 2016, to assess the suitable source and optimum dose of organic fertilizer for kharif onion. The soil of the experimental plot was clay loam with 7.47...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45887
Papaya (Carica papaya L.) is the most important nutritious fruit crop of the tropical and subtropical region, belongs to the caricaceae family.In this study, the main objective was to evaluate the effects of harvest time on fruit quality attributes.For this papaya fruit cv.Red La...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45890
The field experiment was conducted at Birsa Agricultural University during winter (Rabi) season of 2017-18 with the objective to evaluate the growth parameter, yield attributes, yield and economics of wheat variety HD2967 under precision nitrogen management guided by Greenseeker....
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45894
A field experiment was conducted during rabi season 2017-18 at Research Farm of Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Jharkhand to evaluate the nutrient uptake and nitrogen use efficiency of wheat variety HD2967 under precision nitrogen management guided by Greenseeker. The crop...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45895
Fruits are known as “protective food" as they are rich in vitamins and minerals. However, abiotic and biotic stresses effect fruit production. Because of increased demand, many economically important fruit crops are needed to be improved. In past years, some efforts were made thr...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45857
Secondary metabolites are natural bioactive products produced by bacteria, fungi and plants. It can be categorised as the deleterious mycotoxins, cytotoxic carcinogenic compounds or the beneficial antibiotics, fungicides, insecticides and antitumor metabolites. The increasing num...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45867
The long-term effect of organic and inorganic fertiliser on Zn fractions in soil and their relation with Zn uptake in the rice-wheat system was studied in calciorthents of the Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa Samastipur, Bihar. Application of NPK and comp...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45852
The genetic diversity in 10 selected hybrids of litchi, Litchi chinensis Sonn. using 15 decamer random primers. Out of 15, 10 RAPD primers revealed polymorphism while the remaining 5 primers reflected no polymorphism. The primers produced a total of 52 bands of which 33 were poly...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45854
Ravindra Kumar, Amit Raj, Muneshwar Prasad, Khushboo Azam, Jyoti Kumari, Sanjay Sahay, Samik Sengupta, Chanda Kushwaha, K. P. Singh & Satish Chandra Narayan·Current Journal of Applied Science and Technology·2018
Flowering and fruiting behaviour studied in five important cultivars of mango viz. Langra, Bombai, Zardalu, Bangalora and Hemsagar. The bud break, the appearance of 50% flower in panicle and fruit set was noticed in different time among the cultivars. The flowering intensity (%),...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45855
Underutilised fruit crops of sikkim has a great potential to be made into processed products but is not explored much. Sensory evaluation is one technique through which one can release a product out of these potential fruit crops. Diploknema butyraceae, Hippophae salicyfolia, Ela...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45858