Modern agriculture requires approaches that sustain crop productivity while reducing environmental burdens associated with intensive synthetic inputs. This review examines microalgae as multifunctional biological resources for sustainable agriculture, with emphasis on their roles...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106346
Cocoa production is increasingly exposed to heat, rainfall variability and severe drought, while the ecological simplification of many cocoa landscapes has reduced the biological and structural buffers that can moderate climatic stress. Cocoa agroforestry is therefore promoted as...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106341
Soybean productivity is substantially affected by weed competition, particularly during the early stages of crop growth when weeds compete for essential resources. Effective and sustainable weed-management strategies are therefore important for reducing weed interference and impr...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106342
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) is an important staple crop for food security, income generation, and livelihoods, especially in the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa. However, seed-borne fungal diseases pose a significant constraint to sorghum productivity by affecti...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106343
Textile wastewater is used as an alternative irrigation source where freshwater is limited, but repeated application may alter soil heavy-metal status. This study evaluated heavy-metal accumulation in post-harvest soils under a vegetables-jute-T. Aman crop rotation at the Banglad...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106344
Vikas Kumar, Ashim Datta, Ram Parkash, Rohtas Kumar, Sushil, Ajay Sharma, Md Sarware Alam, Sekhar Kumar, H. K. Yadav, Satender Kumar, Anil Kumar, Vipin Arya & H. S. Jat·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2026
Intensive cereal-based cropping systems (rice-maize-wheat-mungbean) in North-West India face challenges from inefficient flood irrigation, leading to nitrogen (N) losses via leaching, volatilization and denitrification, which reduce nitrogen use efficiency (NUE). Conservation agr...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106345
Long-term nutrient management plays an important role in maintaining soil micronutrient fertility under continuous cropping. The present study evaluated the effect of long-term fertiliser and manure application on the vertical distribution of DTPA-extractable Zn, Cu, Mn and Fe in...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106337
Calcareous soils occupy a substantial share of the cultivated land of arid and semi-arid regions, and their carbonate-buffered, calcium-dominated chemistry alters almost every process that governs potassium supply to crops. Soil-test procedures used to advise potassium fertilisat...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106338
A field experiment was conducted at the Instructional-cum-Research Farm of the Horticulture Section, Rajarshee Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Government College of Agriculture, Kolhapur, to assess associations among yield and yield-attributing traits in 25 coriander genotypes. The exp...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106339
Weed competition is a major constraint to productivity and nutrient acquisition in tomato production, where non-chemical weed-management options are important. A two-year field experiment was conducted during the kharif seasons of 2022-23 and 2023-24 at the AICRP on Weed Manageme...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106333
A. K. Jha, Abhjeet Dubey, Shivani Thakur, P. S. Yadav, B. S. Solanki, Monika Raghuwanshi, Badal Verma, Bhumika Singh lodhi, K. S. Tripathi & Ajay Jaiswal·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2026
A field experiment was conducted during kharif 2018 at the Experimental Farm, College of Agriculture, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, to evaluate the bio-efficacy and phytotoxicity of Propaquizafop 10% EC in soybean and its residual effect on succeeding mustard. The experiment was laid...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106334
Fodder maize (Zea mays L.) is a high-biomass, nutrient-responsive forage whose economic value depends on both harvested mass and nutritive quality. Fertiliser recommendations based on regional averages can therefore be inefficient when fields differ markedly in native nitrogen, p...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106335
Nitrogen-fixing trees and shrubs are planted widely in nursery-raised restoration programmes, mixed-species plantations and agroforestry systems, and soil or substrate amendments and bio-inoculants are applied routinely to improve their nutrition. Confidence in the reported effec...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106336
Pinki Dadarwal, O. P. Meena, M. R. Yadav, H. P. Parewa, R. C. Meena, S. K. Jain, Rahul, Manisha Kumawat, Varsha Jeetarwal, Naveen Kumar & B. K. Dadrwal·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2026
A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of pearl millet-green gram intercropping proportion and graded fertility levels on crop growth, physiological traits and productivity of the component crops. The experiment was laid out in a split-plot design with three rep...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106332
Integrated nutrient management (INM) was evaluated through a 60-day incubation experiment using red loam soil to assess temporal changes in available nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), and sulphur (S). Soil samples were incubated with combinations of recommended or soil...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2026/v38i106329