A field experiment was carried out at the farm of Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Morabadi, Ranchi during kharif season of 2022 with 10 treatments (T1: control or no treatment, T2: Corm treatment with Beej Sanjeevani, T3: Corm treatment with Beejamri...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i52827
Food security and environmental safety are the two important areas receiving major setback with the use of chemical fertilizers. Sustainable food supply in response to population demand urges for a paradigm shift from chemical-based agriculture to some eco-friendly approaches. In...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i530675
A field experiment in 3 times replicated split plot design comprising 4 cropping systems (CS) (CS1-Sole oat, CS2- Sole grasspea, CS3 and CS4-oat-grasspea intercropping in 3:2 and 3:3 row ratios, respectively) in main plot and 3 integrated nutrient managements i.e. N2, N3 and N4...
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Research Article10.9734/irjpac/2020/v21i2430378
Crisis of Indian agriculture is very pertinent at this moment as green revolution is gradually losing its hope. Excessive, pointless exploitation of broods of green revolution has left bad footprints on country’s food security and environmental safety. With the motto to ensure fo...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2020/v10i930228
Cereal crops such as maize, wheat, sorghum and pearl millet are important for human consumption due to their nutritional benefits. These cereals play pivotal roles to meet world’s food demand. However, maintenance of food security particularly in the circumstance of changing clim...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2020/v10i530198
A field experiment was carried out at Instructional Farm, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal during kharif season of 2019 and 2020, following three times replicated split plot design with 3 soybean varieties (V1: PS 1225; V2: YEZIN 15; V3: PS 24) i...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i730711
Background: Cultivation of Maize, a highly productive and profitable crop, requires standardization of macronutrients, micronutrients and organic nutrition. Objective: Research was planned with the objective to enhance the yield and profit of kharif maize by agronomic fortificati...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i630683
Maize, being highly nutritious and multi-purpose C4 crop can be grown throughout the year. Judicious nutrient management and selection of optimum sowing dates play major roles in enhancing productivity and profitability of kharif maize to meet the food demand of nation under chan...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i430663
In order to find out the efficacy of conservation tillage on yield and economics of fodder crops over conventional tillage in new alluvial zone of West Bengal, a field experiment was conducted at Central Research Farm, Gayeshpur, West Bengal, India during summer season of 2016 an...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2020/v10i1230335
Rationale: Crop production and quality of produce get affected by drought, stand establishment and low availability of nutrients. Apart from various prevailing methods, seed treatment through priming now-a-days has been found to noticeably improve crop establishment for increasin...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2020/v10i330183
A field experiment was carried out during summer season of 2018 at Instructional Farm, Jaguli, BCKV, West Bengal to study the effect of integrated nutrient management on growth, yield and economics in hybrid maize. The treatments were T1-100% RDF (150:75:75 kg/ha N, P2O5 and K2O)...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i330517