With climate change affecting the world, increasing population requires improved soil resource assessment, management and environmentally friendly use of land to support food security. Bayelsa State is known to be one of the topmost producers of banana/plantain but the escalating...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i94985
The purpose of the present investigation was to assess the association of different characters among 36 advanced hybrids, 12 B lines and 3 R lines with grain yield per plot pooled across the seasons Kharif and summer and to demonstrate the direct and indirect effects of various c...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i94986
Success in rubber growing is linked to the production of vigorous plants in the nursery. However, this cruel stage faces difficulties related to the cost of chemical fertilizer and its availability. This work carried out in 4 localities (Bimbresso, Alépé, Abengourou and Daoukro)...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i94987
Excessive use of inorganic mineral fertilizers as an agronomic practice has resulted in the depletion of soil organic matter of soils of many regions thereby rendering such soils infertile and unable to maintain sustainable production. The use of organic amendments provides the i...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i94988
The field experiment was carried out at Research Farm, Integral University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India during Kharif season, 2021. The experiment envisages to study the effect of Sowing methods and different Nitrogen levels on yield and attributes of maize crop. The experiment...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i94989
Maize (Zea mays L.) is an important cereal crop grown in the world. The living factors (insects, pests, weeds) and non-living factors (drought, salinity, heat stress) affects the yield of maize; among which weeds are considered as most destructive in decreasing the maize crop yie...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i94990
The experiment was conducted at the Instructional Farm (SIF) of Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh in the Rabi season of 2023-24. A Randomized Block Design was used for statistical analysis, with 10 treatments and 3 replications...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i94974
Narayanaswamy Jeevan, Saleemali Kannihalli, Chethan Kumar K B, J K Singh, Anil K, Karan Sathish, Shankar M, Surla Pradeep Kumar & Yerradoddi Sindhushree·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2024
A field experiment was carried out during the winter (rabi) season of 2018–19 at the Agricultural Research Farm, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, to evaluate the impact of herbicides and nitrogen levels on phytotoxic effect and the efficiency of different herbicides and nitrog...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i94977
A research investigation was conducted at the Research Farm, the Department of Forestry, College of Agriculture, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, located in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of various land-use regimes on the physic...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i94978
A field experiment was conducted at Instructional Farm, College of Agriculture, Jodhpur during two consecutive rabi seasons of 2021-22 and 2022-23. The field experiment was tested in randomized complete block design (RCBD) with fourteen treatments replicated thrice. Results showe...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i94970
Kouadio AMANI, Guy Fernand YAO, Lassina FONDIO, Mako François De Paul N’gbesso, Ferdinand Bi Zro, Christophe Kouamé & Ibrahim Konate·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2024
The field experiment study was conducted at the experimental station of Jean Lorougnon Guede University in Daloa to evaluate the potential effects of native rhizobia strains on soybean production and soils properties. The experiment was layout in a randomized complete block desig...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i94972
The raising human health hazards due to excessive use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in India leads cancer patients. To overcome such problems there is need of Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) in our major crop wheat and further to improve soil fertility under agrofor...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i94973
A thorough soil investigation was conducted to assess the soil's ability to supply nutrients by examining the vertical nutrient distribution pattern in the pedons of paddy growing areas in the Vepurikota microwatershed in Andhra Pradesh. The results revealed that soils were low i...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i94969
Aims: Postharvest losses of cucumbers pose significant challenges for small-scale farmers in developing regions due to limited access to modern cold storage. This study investigated the effectiveness of low-cost indigenous drip coolers with different fabric coverings as an altern...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i94967