A major threat for sustainable agriculture is the continuous increase in salt-affected area. Salt stress causes the land degradation, ecological imbalance, Environmental pollution and reduce the crop production. It changes different physical and chemical processes taking place in...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1931096
The present study on effect of different doses of city-compost were conducted including the dose of Nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium through chemical fertilizer as control (T1= NPK @ 100:60:150 Kg ha -1) and it comprises of eight treatments as a total (T2= City-compost @1. 25...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1931090
The heterosis breeding strategy is one of the most successful technological approaches for improving Indian mustard varieties for seed yield quality and quantity, as well as other yield contributing character. The present investigation was undertaken ten genetically diverse paren...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1931091
The study investigated the effect of organic production of maize on soil microbial population and activities. In this study, different fertilizers such as compost, neem fertilizer, poultry manure, green manure, NPK, organo-mineral fertilizer, were applied to the soil for maize pr...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1931092
An experiment was laid out in a Randomized Block Design (Factorial) with different pelleting material i.e. no pelleting (P1), Rhizobium liquid (P2), Rhizobium powder (P3) and Rhizobium liquid with jaggery (P4) and 5 levels of nitrogen application i.e. 0% N of RDF(F1), 40% N of RD...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1931093
Jeberlin Prabina Bright, Andrea Susan Baby, Sugitha Thankappan, Aniya Susan George, Hemant S. Maheshwari, Rajinimala Nataraj, Shakina Judson & Asish K. Binodh·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2022
Potassium (K) is one of the essential macronutrients required for the plants and its availability to plants is hampered due to its fixation with other ions. The Potassium Releasing Micro-organisms (KRMs) present in the soil are capable of converting the fixed form of potassium in...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1931088
Sixty eight genotypes of maize (48 hybrids, 16 parents and 4 checks were evaluated under three different environments to test their stability. Variance due to genotypes, environments and genotype x environment interactions were found significant for oil content, starch content an...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1931089
Lettuce is one of the major leafy vegetables used in salads, soups and occasionally lightly cooked. Leaf lettuce has garnered a central role in human nutrition, as it combines pleasing organoleptic properties with a rich content of nutraceutical compounds. Leaf lettuce can bring...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1931086
An experiment was carried out during Rabi season of 2021 at Crop Research Farm, NAI, SHUATS to study about the Performance of different organic liquid manures on growth and yield of Field Pea (Pisum sativum L.). The experiment consisted of 9 treatments which includes 3 doses of P...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1931087
The study assessed the impact of paper board industry effluent irrigation on soil quality under agroforestry system. The agroforestry system was maintained at the Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Paper Limited (TNPL) - Unit II located at Mondipatti Village, Manaparai Taluk, Trichy distri...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1931085
A study was conducted to estimate genetic variability and genetic divergence for 8 traits in 52 diverse genotypes of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) under normal sowing condition. For all of the features studied, the analysis of variance revealed extremely significant differen...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1931084
Mungbean (Vigna radiate L.) is one of the most important legume crops of Asiatic region. The average yield of mungbean is quite low due to its susceptibility against mungbean yellow mosaic virus (MYMV). Mungbean yellow mosaic virus disease (MYMD) is caused by MYMV, which is trans...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1831081
The FAO Penman-Monteith equation is used by the ETo calculator software to calculate reference evapotranspiration – ETo from meteorological data. FAO chose this technique as the standard because it is physically based, roughly approximates grass ETo in the studied region, and exp...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1831172
N. K. Sathyamoorthy, R. Ragavan, J. Prabhakaran, P. Prakash, S. P. Ramanathan, Ga. Dheebakaran, V. Guhan, R. Senthil Raja, S. Kokilavani & K. Bhuvaneswari·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2022
Fertigation, a latest technology wherein nutrients are applied along with irrigation water. Fertigation opens new possibilities for controlling water and nutrient supplies to crops besides maintaining the desired concentration and distribution of water and nutrients to the soil....
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1831199
A field experiment on chickpea was conducted during Rabi, 2021 at Crop Research Farm, Department of Agronomy, SHUATS, Prayagraj (U.P). INDIA. The soil of the experimental plot was sandy loam in texture, nearly neutral in soil reaction (pH 6.9), organic carbon (0.71%), available N...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i1931082