Consumption of huge fresh water and the generation of a huge volume of toxic wastewater are two most important environmental concerns associated with paper industries. Hence, it is necessary to study the impact of these effluents on soil and crop before they recommended for agri...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i193569
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) is one of the important small millets with high nutraceutical value in the world. Most of the millet farmers attracted by Finger millet cultivation due to its wide adoptability in different soil types and climate. It also grows well in hot climat...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i183342
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the most important food crop not only in Asia but also in the entire world. Over the past several decades, conventional fertilizer application for rice has caused the loss of nutrients, which could lead to a series of environmental problems such as eutro...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i242726
Climate change has emerged as one of the major global environmental issues that greatly influence agricultural production and food security. To meet these emerging challenges of climate change, there is an urgent need for developing promising improved technologies for mitigating...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121500
Recently, farmers are shifting to organic farming and are interested in the adoption of various plant and animal waste as nutrient sources in organic agriculture to supply the nutrients for getting the expected yield. Currently, farmers believe that the application of panchagavy...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i232523
Soil testing is a chemical process by virtue of which requirement of nutrients for plant can be analyzed so as to sustain the soil fertility. The basic objective of the soil testing is to provide a service to farmers to better and more economic use of fertilizers and better soil...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v37i330269
The technologies available at present in the field of agriculture have no relevance whatsoever if these are not reached and adopted by the farmers for the improvement of crop productivity. Keeping this in view, the present study was undertaken to analyse the impact of vocational...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/43208
Available agricultural technology does not serve its purpose till it reaches and adopted by it ultimate users, the farmers. The present study was conducted in Thottiyam block of Tiruchirappalli district to assess the adoption of precision technologies in bitter gourd cultivation....
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/41018
Out of 115 million operational holdings in India, about 80 per cent of Indian farmers are marginal and small farmers. To achieve sustainable development in income and employment to fulfill the basic needs of the farmers in plains and also in hilly areas, an integrated faming syst...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/38241
A Field experiment was conducted at Mondippatti village in Tiruchirappalli district of Tamil Nadu to study the effect of paper mill effluent irrigation with or without compost application on root growth, biological properties and soil nutrient status in Alfisol with groundnut as...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i193772
This study examined the Knowledge level of Paddy farmers on Climate Change the Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu state in India. It is situated in the coastal area and is very often subjected to natural calamities which were mainly reflected in the Paddy cultivation to the wors...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i82125
Most of the farmers in our country highly depend on chemical pesticides and fungicides to control pests and diseases in agriculture and horticultural crops. Abundant usage of these pesticides in crop fields causes harmful effects to human beings as well as to other living organis...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2023/v41i122334
The efficacy of neem leaf extract against finger millet blast pathogen Magnaporthe grisea was assessed invitro. The neem leaf extract significantly inhibits the pathogen mycelial growth and melanin biosynthesis. Neem leaf extract shows 84.33 % inhibition of the pathogen over cont...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i244325
The use of mobile phones has become an integral part of smallholder farmers’ lives in both developed and developing countries. The traditional transfer of technology mechanism had lot of constraints including limited staff, wider coverage and required more cost. The study was con...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2023/v41i122331
Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is one of the important fruit crops cultivating in India. Adoption improved production technologies in watermelon cultivation is not followed by majority of the farmers. Tamil Nadu Irrigated Agriculture Modernization and Water Bodies Restoration and...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i102957
Seafood is gaining in popularity because of its health benefits. At the same time, large amounts of fish waste are being generated, mostly from the industrial processing of fish. These large quantities of fish waste have not been utilized efficiently, and the disposal of fish was...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i153083
Sugarcane produces about 10 to 12 tonnes of dry leaves per hectare per crop. The detrashing is done during its growth period. This trash contains organic carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. The sugarcane trash incorporation in the soil influences physical, chemical and biolo...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i234277
Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important oil seed crop in the world belonging to the Leguminosae family. It is one of the essential food and cash crops of our country. In India, a large number of diseases attack groundnut [1]. Among soil borne diseases, stem rot or white m...
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Research Article10.9734/jamb/2023/v23i12785
Native isolates of groundnut stem rot casual organism, Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc. Were collected from major groundnut growing areas of Tamil Nadu. Selected isolates were screened, characterized and indentified the virulent isolate (GNSR1). Several native bacterial and fungal antago...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i244340
Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) is one of the economically valuable agricultural crops grown worldwide in tropical and subtropical areas mainly for their sugar source. Among the 110 sugarcane cultivated countries, India and Brazil contribute half of global production [1]. Du...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2023/v29i121828
In the present study Trichoderma asperellum (ECK), Trichoderma asperellum (TNAU), Streptomyces sp (native) and Pseudomonas fluorescens (TNAU) were tested in vitro by dual culture technique. Among the six treatments Trichoderma asperellum (ECK) and Streptomyces sp (native) was fou...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i123819
A. Thanga Hemavathy, S. Chitra, P. Anatharaju, M. Sakila, V. Dhanushkodi, S. Kavitha, V. Vijaya Geetha, P. Jeyaprakash & C. Vanniarajan·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2023
Sesbania aculeate is a quick growing, succulent, easily decomposable and produces maximum amount of organic matter and nitrogen in the soil. Sesbania green manure after decomposition, increases humus, available nitrogen and lower down the C:N ratio of soil, aeration, permeability...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i203833
Agriculture relies heavily on irrigation especially with groundwater which is a significant source in many countries. However, excessive use of groundwater can lead to a decrease in groundwater levels and cause scarcity of water. Irrigation requires good-quality water which is go...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i102897
The cultivar with high and positive breeding value can be used as a good parent for breeding of traits in hybridization programs because they can better transfer the desirable characteristics to the progeny in each case. To obtain the breeding value present investigation was carr...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2023/v35i193758