The profitability of ex-situ straw management largely depends on the quantity and quality of straw recovered from the field. The straw reaper-combine is one of the widely used ex-situ straw management technologies being used to retrieve the leftover residue in the field after gra...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i830595
An investigation was conducted during 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons under South Gujarat conditions to study the impact of de-blossoming in six mango varieties during regular flowering season on off season fruiting characters. The investigation consisted of four de-blossoming treatm...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i830585
This research was undertaken to assess the spatial distribution of Nitrate levels in the groundwater withdrawn via boreholes. This was done by sampling functional boreholes in the study area for nitrate levels. Lokoja town was selected for this research and the analysis of nitrat...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i830586
Tuberose is an ornamental crop which is growing under tropical and sub-tropical areas. Recently, the incidence of leaf blight disease caused by Alternaria polianthi a fungal disease of tuberose is considered as a severe problem causing growth reduction and yield loss triggered by...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i830587
Decision-making is the process of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the values and preferences of the decision-maker. This research examines the decision-making skills of managers employed in public and private organizations. The methodology entails a survey of 60 ra...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i830588
United Nations Hunger Task Force listed eight goals and conservation of nature and protection of environment is one of them. Different practices involved in use of agrochemicals like mishandling, indiscriminate use, disposal could have adverse health and environmental impact. Thi...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i830589
Effects on pH based adsorption of nucleic acid bases (thymine and uracil) at two different concentrations 1 x 10-4 M and 1 x 10-5 M on copper, cobalt and silver ferrocyanides were studied over a pH range (1.0 – 10.0) at temperature 30±1ºC. The progress of adsorption was followed...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i830590
Seven different methods of artificial inoculation such as 1. Carborundum injury, 2. Pin prick injury 3. Sand paper injury, 4. Syringe inoculation on lower surface of leaf without needle, 5. Syringe inoculation of veins on lower surface of leaf with needle, 6. Tooth picks inoculat...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i730652
Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.) originated from South China, it is sub-tropical evergreen fruit crops, especially grown on the marginal climate of tropics and subtropics. It is delicious juicy fruit of India having excellent nutritional quality, pleasant flavoured, good amount of...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i730583
In India, onion is grown during Kharif, late Kharif and Rabi season, though Rabi is the main crop. India is the second largest producer of onion in the world after China. The onion is grown as bulb crop, some inflorescence stalks are produced before formation of normal bulbs know...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i730584
A field experiment was conducted during Navarai season of 2017 at research farm of Agronomy, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture and Research Institute, Karaikal, Puducherry, India on investigate the performance of seed priming practices at different dates of sowing (F...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i730582
Global warming - a new global challenge in front of agricultural scientists, affecting almost all the climatic parameters involving air temperature and rainfall intensity and distributions. Elevated levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) viz. carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide etc...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i730580
Carrot (Daucus carota L) is a carotenoids rich vegetable which is mainly consumed raw, converted to various products and cooked vegetable dishes. Present studies were carried out to study the changes observed in quality characteristics of dried carrot roundels during storage. Ste...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i730579
The half-life of maternal antibody (mAb) titres against Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV) were estimated in order to trace its likely declining pattern and the influence on the efficacy of vaccination in broiler chicks. Our study was also conducted to compare two vaccination regimens...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i730581
Zinc deficiency is associated with impaired growth, poor immune function and also adverse pregnancy outcomes. The main strategies to alleviate mineral deficiencies are food diversification, food fortification or supplementation. Recently, there is a growing interest on the metal...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2020/v39i730578