Excessive fertilizer-use post green revolution led to increased crop yields keeping the soil health at stake with nutrient losses, leaching and poor soil health. The current study aimed to evaluate the slow-release fertilizer i.e., biochar-coated nitrogen (BCN) fertilizer on the...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2024/v14i94431
Sweet corn is a short-season crop, thus it requires a balanced nutrient supply to ensure adequate crop uptake. Enriched biochar with inorganic fertilizer produces a balanced nutrient by maintaining an inorganic nutrient in the soil and enhancing crop return. The study was carried...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i193588
Low crop yields due to constant monocropping systems and deteriorating soil health in a smallholder farmers’ field of Indo-Gangetic plains of India have led to a quest for sustainable production practices with greater resource use efficiencies. The aim of the study was to elucida...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2020/v10i1030244
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the most vital staple food crop in Asia and human consumption accounts for 85% of total production of rice. The conventional rice production system with standing water not only leads to wastage of water but also causes ecological problems and reduces the...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/40579
A field experiment was conducted at Norman E Borlaug Crop Research Center, Pantnagar, India during 2011-12 and 2012-13. The experiment was laid in a factorial split plot design with resource conservation technology practices i.e., Tillage system (conventional and reduced tillage)...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2017/36649
A field experiment on Mentha (Mentha arvensis L.) was conducted during the spring seasons of 2022 and 2023 at G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar. The objective was to investigate the impact of foliar spray of humic acid on SPAD values under conditions o...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i24382