Aims: The area of sub-Mediterranean Herzegovina, including the area of Mostar, is favourable for growing of almonds. However, this advantage has not been sufficiently exploited so far. A wide selection of almond varieties is available, so it is a challenge to select the best vari...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/39091
Field experiments were conducted from 2015 to 2016 during wet seasons at the Teaching and Research of the Leventist Farm, Tumu, Akko local Government area, Gombe State, to evaluate the effects of incorporated legumes, NPK 20-10-10 and their Combinations on yield and yield attribu...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38185
The present investigation entitled “Effect of Phospho compost and Nitrophospho-Sulpho compost on soil chemical and biological properties under soybean in Vertisols" was conducted at Research farm, Dr. PDKV, Akola during Kharif 2016. The experiment was laid in Randomised Complete...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38648
Well structured questionnaires and rating schedule were utilized to establish the economic relevance of each member of each species for each growth form. Available growth forms have very low economic relevance except probably the ones man knowingly planted for their high Economic...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/36870
Two field studies were conducted at the Multipurpose Crop Nursery research field of the University of Education, Winneba, Mampong-Ashanti in the Forest-Savannatransitionzone of Ghana from September-December, 2009 and April-July, 2010, respectively to determine the effects of vari...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38795
Soil is the most complex of all microbial habitats. Tropical soils have high levels of biodiversity and microorganisms that display fascinating mechanisms for interaction and biotransformation, thus regulating the mobility of chemical compounds in the environment. This paper will...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/39052
The experiment was conducted at College of Horticulture, Mudigere to study the effect of fertigation on quality and biochemical parameters of strawberry fruits. The experiment consists of eight treatments, each treatment was replicated four times in Completely Randomized Design....
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38507
Seeds of three roselle accessions (HS11, HS89 and HS41) were obtained from the Department of Horticulture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana and grown to obtain the calyces. The calyces were dried by sun (34.9°C), solar (56.5°C) and oven (60.0°C) m...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38550
A field experiment was conducted at All India Coordinated Research Project on Soybean, Main Agricultural Research Station, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India to study the integrated nutrient management practices on red leaf index, insect pest and disea...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38888
The field experiment was conducted in Parasai–Sindh watershed to evaluate the groundnut yield (rainy season crop), water use efficiency (WUE) and economic value under different topographic condition of watershed, to improve the yield of the wheat crop (winter season), irrigation...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/35524
This research was done to find out the effect of increasing vermicompost application on yield of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var. crispa) plant. For this purpose Lactuca sativa L. var. crispa cv. Bellafiesta lettuce kind and Riverm Company vermicompost were used in this research....
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/37574
Christopher Ngosong, Clovis B. Tanyi, Cyril A. Njume, Priscilla M. Mfombep, Justin N. Okolle, Thomas E. Njock, Raymond N. Nkongho & Aaron S. Tening·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2018
Aim: Efficacy of locally produced dual-purpose organic amendment for improving tomato protection and yield was compared with synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Methodology: The experiment was setup as randomized complete block with three treatments (control, inorganic and orga...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/38666
Maximization of agricultural crop production could require continuous cultivation likewise soil protection. Thus, an experiment was carried out in local farmers’ farm lands in Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, Nigeria to investigate the effect of different cultivation practices...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/27306
Field experiment was conducted to study the influence of plant spacings on the seed cotton yield and yield components in cotton during winter 2016–2017 at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. The experiment was laid out in a split-plot design and rep...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/38591
This is the first comparative study of the rhizosphere and rhizoplane mycoflora of Phoenix dactylifera (date palm) from three different regions of Saudi Arabia. Samples of roots and rhizosphere soil from the date palm were collected from Jeddah, Jizan and Riyadh. A total number...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/38315