The experiment was carried out to study the effect of different combinations of NPK and biofertilizers on zinnia (Zinnia elegans J.) at SKUAST – K, Shalimar, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. The experiment was laid out in Randomised Block Design with three replications. The experimen...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i630157
This paper aims to estimate the stress-strength reliability parameter R = P(Y < X), considering the two different cases of stress strength parameters, when the strength ‘X’ follows exponentiated inverse power Lindley distribution ,extended inverse Lindley and Stress ‘Y’ follow...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i630158
Groundwater is an essential resource for sustainable development all over the world. To understand the use of water resources, the fundamental characteristics and recharge of the groundwater need to be analyzed. GIS is considered as an effective and powerful tool for collecting,...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i630153
Ensuring livelihood security of the tribal farmers of Meghalaya has been the main focus of the policymakers. To accelerate the process, it is necessary to identify the most serious issue encountered by the farmers of the region. This paper presents a list of agricultural issues a...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i630151
Objectives: This work was carried out to investigate the efficacy of galvanic vestibular stimulation in improving of gait performance and upright postural stability in hemiplegic cerebral palsy children. Method: Thirty children were enrolled in this study and randomly assigned in...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i630149
Aim: To evaluate the organoleptic, pH and pasting properties of unripe plantain (Musa paradisiaca), soybeans (Glycine max) and ginger (Zingerber officianale) as edible sources of food which can be processed into flour for several purposes. Methodology: The plant materials (unripe...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i630150
There has been a sharp rise in the rate of waste generated on a global scale, owing to a rapid growth in population and urbanization. Enormous amounts of waste are being produced yearly. To illustrate the gravity of this situation, in 2018, there was a gargantuan estimate of 85 t...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i530148
Drip irrigation system uniformity can preserve a higher crop yield and deplete the initial investment of cost. The experiment was conducted at precision farming development centre research farm, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, to evaluate the uniformity coefficien...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i530170
The Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) are very important organisations for promoting agricultural development at the district level through the various trainings and other development programmes they offer. One way of knowing how effective these KVKs are in catalysing district agricul...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i530169
Recently, wavelet transform (WT) has been enormously effectual in various scientific fields. As a matter of fact, WT has overcome the FFT in the difficult nature data tackling. A wavelet entropy based probabilistic neural network (PNN) for classification applications is proposed....
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2019/v34i530145