Aims: A study was conducted to evaluate decoloration of azo dye, Congo Red (CR) using fungal hyphal mat of beneficial bacidiomycete Termitomyces sp. TMS7 (MW694830) as bio sorbent material. Study design: Completely randomized block design (CRD). Place and duration of study: Depa...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i430399
Aims: To determine the effectiveness of the selected dripper spacing and dripper discharge rate on crop growth and yield parameters of rice crop and to determine the suitable variety and crop geometry for higher productivity and use efficiency of drip irrigations system. Study de...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i430397
Crop stresses due to both biotic and abiotic are the major factors affecting crop productivity. The need of the hour is to minimize the yield losses due to these stresses. Early detection can help to reduce the impact of stresses on crop growth and yield. Remote sensing technique...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i430396
The experiment was laid out in a Factorial Randomized Block Design with sixteen treatments and replicated three times. The result indicated that the spacing of 22.5cm recorded significantly maximum number of spikes (36.50), seed yield (1221 kg /ha), husk yield (305 kg/ha), swelli...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i430395
Weed management greatly influences on weed infestation and yield of sesame under irrigated condition. An experiment was conducted at Bagusala farm, M.S. Swaminathan School of Agriculture, CUTM, Paralakhemundi, Odisha to find out the effectiveness of pre and post emergence herbici...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i430394
Imbalanced use of nutrients through fertilizer have a deleterious effects on soil health, leading to unsustainable productivity. The present investigation was carried out to study the comparative effectiveness of compost and crop residue either alone or in combination of chemical...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i430393
Aim: The experiment was aimed at identifying the rabi castor based profitable cropping systems for Alfisols of Southern Telangana Zone. Study design: Split plot design with three replications Place and duration of study: Regional Agricultural Research Station, Professor Jayashank...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i430391
In agroecosystems, straw return is a useful management strategy for increasing soil fertility and crop productivity. The total organic carbon (TOC), dissolved organic C (DOC), and microbial biomass C (MBC) contents all increased significantly when compared to the no straw return...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i430390
This study examines the relationship between Meningitis and weather parameters (air temperature, maximum temperature, relative humidity, and rainfall) in Kaduna state, Nigeria on a weekly basis from 2007–2019. Meningitis data was acquired weekly from Nigeria Centre for Disease Co...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i430389
Mandla Rajashekhar, Banda Rajashekar, Eetela Sathyanarayana, M. C. Keerthi, Padala Vinod Kumar, K. RamaKrishna, Kalisetti Vanisree, Guptha Neelima, G. Madhuri & Ongole Shaila·International Journal of Environment and Climate Change·2021
Biotic stress is a major cause for pre and postharvest losses in agriculture. Food crops of the world are damaged by more than of 10,000 species of insects 30,000 species of weeds, 1,00, 000 types of diseases (due to fungi, viruses, bacteria and various microbes) and a 1,000 spec...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i430388
The livestock sector is a major contributor to food security, livelihoods, and is most affected by climate change, but is also a major contributor of GHGs. While climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has been adopted to mitigate the effects of climate change it has focused more on smal...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i430387
Aim: To study the grain yield performance of early maturity maize hybrid under rainfed conditions in relation to row arrangement, plant geometry and mulching. Place of Study: A field experiment was conducted at Agricultural research station, Karimnagar during kharif 2011-12. Meth...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i330386
A pot experiment was carried out with six chickpea genotypes viz. KPG-59, IPC-2013-74 and NDG-15-6 (tolerant group); and KWR-108, BG-3075 and BG-3076 (susceptible group) to study the responses of these genotypes under salinity stress (4.20 dSm-1) with normal sowing, high temperat...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i330384
Estimation of runoff in a watershed is very important to manage the water resources efficiently. In this regard, surface runoff quantification is an essential study. The main objective of this study is to quantify the surface runoff of the catchment area of a well located in AEC...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i330385
Drought is one of the major water-related natural hazards. Understanding the spatial and temporal variation of rainfall is of great importance in water resources planning and management as it is related with food security and management of scarce water resource, which becomes cri...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i330383