Aim: Demand of dry flowers is cumulative day by day equally in national and international marketplace, as dried flowers have a prodigious potential as substitute of fresh flowers. This study aims to know the effect of Silica-gel drying technique on the quality of Orchid flowers....
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831194
Onion (Allium Cepa L.) is cultivated globally as a one of the prominent vegetable crop. India is the second largest producer of onion in the world next to China, but still there is large of scope to enhance the production and productivity. In India, the cultivation of onion is no...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831212
Malnutrition is a broad concept that includes both under- and over-nutrition. It is the most serious public health problem and the leading cause of child mortality. About a third of children in developing countries are either underweight or stunted. Micronutrient shortages affect...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831266
The present study represents the quality of ground water from Kaleshwaram project command area of Nizamabad district of Telangana state, India during year 2019-2020. Total 72 ground water samples from bore wells were collected randomly from Nizamabad periodically in two seasons i...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831195
Aim: The study aimed to design a staircase for age-friendly housing by discovering the gap between existing staircase design and requirements of the elderly people. Sample: Sixty elderly women in the age of sixty and above who were living independently in a separate house was the...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831215
Aims: The detailed survey of the microwatershed was carried out by using digitized cadastral map as a base. The objective of the investigation was undertaken to characterize and classify the soils of Harve-1 microwatershed of Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka. Place and Duration...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831196
In India, the area irrigated by the sprinkler system is 3.59 million ha, which is less than 2.5 % of the total area under irrigation. Madhya Pradesh has been covered 35195 ha area under micro irrigation (2017-18) Share of Sagar district in micro irrigation area 895.20 ha. Sagar h...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831218
The present experiment was conducted to understand the effect of soil moisture status on the economic or standard heterosis in fifty maize hybrids for grain yield and flowering traits. The trials were planted at Agricultural Research Farm, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in a...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831198
A field experiment was conducted during 2018 and 2019 at the crop research farm, Department of Agronomy, Shuats, Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) to study the effect of intercrop row ratio and liquid manures on chickpea and mustard intercropping system. The treatments consisted of five...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831223
The study on marketing of brinjal conducted in Nadia District of West Bengal discerns that the marketing of brinjal in the study area is completely dominated by the intermediaries depriving farmers to get the remunerative prices for their products and consumers are also paying hi...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831203
The genetic diversity was estimated using seventy two genotypes of rice in a randomized block design with three replications at the rice research farm of Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour (Bhagalpur) during Kharif, 2019-20 to determine the contribution of fifteen quantitative...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831228
The study examined the energy use pattern of zero budget natural farming (ZBNF) in rice production. Operation wise energy usage in rice production was calculated in this study. From the results, natural fertilizers and manures were found to be the dominant source of energy and th...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831207
The present study has attempted to develop a knowledge test on organic farming techniques mainly on organic manures and pesticides. Heavy reliance on synthetic chemical fertilizers and pesticides as well as growing awareness of health and environment have been attracting farmers...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831231
Zinc nanoparticles (ZnNPs) produced was evaluated against Alternaria burnsii to see the inhibitory result of the ZnNPs on the growth of fungal mycelium. Physical characterization of synthesized ZnNPs was 68.04 nm in size, Pdi- 0.263, Keps-252.4. Among the twelve treatments, the b...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831208
Millets are known as one of the most important cereal grains as it is good source of phytochemicals and micronutrients. Millets are consumed by more than 1/3rd of the world’s population. It is the 6th cereal crop in terms of world’s agricultural production. Present study was carr...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i4831232