The present investigation was conducted at Horticultural Research Station, Mandouri, BCKV, Mohanpur, West Bengal, India from February 2016 - March 2017 to study the influence of plant growth regulators on growth, flowering, yield and quality of Hybrid Tea rose cv. Bugatti during...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/37580
Farming activities take place in a highly variable biophysical and economic environment which poses numerous types of risks. Risk perception plays a key role in the production as well as investment behavior of farmers. But limited attention has been paid to understand its nature...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/38786
Hayat M. Farah, Abdelrahim M. El Hussein, Hassan E. Khalid & Halima M. Osman·Advances in Research·2018
Aims: To evaluate the acute and chronic toxicity of the aqueous extract of Kigelia africana fruit in Wistar albino rats. Methodology: The aqueous extract of K. africana fruit was administered orally to the rats in group 2, and 3 at a dose of 50, 500 mg/ kg body weight, respective...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/38539
A study has been made during February 2012 to January 2013 to know the pattern of bivalve fauna in the mangrove area of Shirgaon. During the present study, nine of bivalve, viz. Anadora granosa, Brachiodontes striatulus, Dosinia sp., Meretrix meretrix, Saccostrea cucculata, Lucin...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/36786
M. D. Iliger, Reshma Sutar, Shilpa V. Chogatapur & R. Parameshwarareddy·Advances in Research·2017
Brown manuring in conjunction with pre-emergence herbicide(s) significantly improves the soil physico-chemical properties viz., organic matter, soil aggregation, available nitrogen, concentration of available nutrients in the root zone and reduces the bulk density, N-losses throu...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/38527
Most of the states in India are facing the problems of academic backwardness especially in rural villages. Academic stress in children can be present as physical, behavioral or emotional problems. The causes for a rural child being poor in...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/37836
A reproducible protocol for in vitro propagation of ‘Jaspi’- a Prunus rootstock was established. Jaspi is an improved rootstock dwarfing in nature and drought tolerant. The most efficient bud induction medium consisted of Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium fortified with 0.75 mg/l B...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/37784
Field experiment was conducted in Indian Tobacco Company - Paperboards and Specialty Papers Division (ITC-PSPD) model farm, Thekkampatti, Mettupalayam, Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu to assess the impact of ITC treated effluent and solid wastes on crop growth, yield and quality...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/36329
An investigation was carried out at the College of Agriculture, Trivandrum, Kerala, India to evaluate the suitability of an organic fertilizer produced by rapid chemical decomposition of organic waste as a substitute for farmyard manure for banana cultivation with reference to it...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/38428
Pragyan Paramita Rout, N. Chandra Sekaran, K. Arulmozhiselvan & Dhaneshwar Padhan·Advances in Research·2017
An investigation was undertaken to evaluate the effect of long term application of inorganic fertilizers and organic manure on soil available nutrients, organic carbon and yield of hybrid maize during 2013-14 under finger millet-maize cropping sequence at TNAU, Coimbatore. The ex...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/38269