This research on an agricultural drone sprayer for maize crops aimed to standardize various operational parameters—such as spraying height, discharge rate, and drone forward speed—based on metrics like effective swath width, droplet density, Volume Median Diameter (VMD), Number M...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2025/v47i13208
Maize production in Pakistan faces numerous challenges that hinder large-scale cultivation as well as production. These challenges are primarily biotic, includes weeds, nematodes, disease pathogens, and pests (both vertebrate and invertebrate). Furthermore, there are a number of...
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Research Article10.9734/ajraf/2025/v11i1358
Aims: The study was designed to evaluate adoption of aflatoxin smart technologies among maize farmers. Study Design: Cross sectional research design was used involving 344 respondents (300 maize farmers and 44 key informants). Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2025/v25i11634
The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith), an invasive pest has recently spread to all over India and several other countries. For management of this pest, it is important to monitor moth activity by using pheromone traps. In the present study pheromone traps (Polythe...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2025/v25i1575
The scarcity of irrigation water in Egypt requires addressing severe water scarcity, such as deficit irrigation and using organic amendments to improve water use efficiency in agriculture. A field experiment was conducted at El-Nubaria Agricultural Research Station in the summer...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2024/v10i4454
Bacterial stalk rot caused by Dickeya zeae has emerged as significant threat to maize production globally. This pathogen previously known as Erwinia chrysanthemi pv zeae, is very notorious for its ability to cause severe yield losses, sometimes upto 98.8% depending on the climati...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2024/v46i123191
Evapotranspiration (ET) plays a crucial role in agricultural water management, particularly in semi-arid regions where efficient resource allocation is essential for sustainable production. This study utilizes remote sensing and GIS-based approaches to estimate monthly and season...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2024/v30i122727
Zinc is one among the micronutrients essential for the growth and development of crops. Application of inorganic zinc fertilizers to mitigate Zn deficiency is relatively ineffective since it gets converted into unavailable forms. Microbial transformation of Zn from unavailable fo...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2024/v17i4627
A field trial was conducted at experimental cum demonstration field, Shri Vaishnav Institute of Agriculture, Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, Madhya Pradesh during the year 2023-24 to study the effect of integrated nutrient management on growth and yield of maize...
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Research Article10.9734/acri/2024/v24i121013
Maize is one of the most important cereal crops grown under diverse environments due to its range of plasticity. It is called the “Queen of Cereals” because of its highest yield potential. Various diseases significantly affect maize crops, with banded leaf and sheath blight bein...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i125223
Field experiment was conducted at Eastern block farm, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University 11°29”N latitude and 77° 08”E longitude with an altitude of 426.7M above MSL with maize to study the degradation, persistence and residues of atrazine under long term conservation agriculture...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i121807
The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, attacks important cereals, such as corn, millet and sorghum, causing economic damage. It is has been a new biotic constraint to African agriculture since it invaded the African continent in 2016. Reported in Burkina Faso in 2017, it is pr...
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Research Article10.9734/jalsi/2024/v27i6672
An experiment was conducted to study the effects of irrigation systems, irrigation, and N levels on the economics of maize and groundnut during 2021-22 and 2022-23 at the College Farm, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, PJT Agricultural University, Hyderabad. The experiment c...
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Research Article10.9734/acri/2024/v24i121001
Maize (Zea mays L; 2n=20) is one among the major cereal crops grown in the humid tropics. It has high yield potential, immense potentiality, and that is why it is also known as ‘queen of cereals’. Though it is mainly used as a food crop in India by the rural population in the for...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2024/v17i4613
Aminullah Noorzai, Kondumahanthi Suresh, Avasarala Sreenivasa Subbarao, Kodari Avil Kumar, K. Pavan Chandra Reddy & Pindi Satish·Journal of Scientific Research and Reports·2024
An experiment was conducted to assess the effects of irrigation systems, irrigation and N levels on nutrient uptake of rabi maize and summer groundnut during 2021-22 and 2022-23 at the College Farm, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, PJTAU, Hyderabad. The experiment composed...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2024/v30i122681