Meenachil river basin, located in southern part of Kerala, is frequently liable to flood. It is an area predominant with agricultural land and falls under tropical humid zone. Hence, water resources planning and management and understanding of rainfall-runoff relationship along w...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121564
Castor is an important oilseed crop. The castor bean contains about 50-55% oil. Among vegetable oils, castor oil is distinguished by its high content (over 85%) of ricinoleic acid. No other vegetable oil contains so high proportion of fatty hydroxyl acids. Castor oil’s unsaturate...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121565
Growing cuttings of Kusum (Schleichera oleosa), is a major hurdle for the Lac growers in India. This species is primarily known as the lac host tree for lac production besides other multiple uses. Due to high population pressure and market demand, the natural population and genet...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121566
Land use-land cover (LULC) change analysis is essential for understanding the spatial and temporal change of landscape during a known long period for sustainable management of natural resources. The main objective of this study was to assess land use-land cover change using an ob...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121567
A field experiment was carried out at College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad to study the influence of land configurations and vegetative mulch on the yield, yield attributes, nutrient uptake and economics of yellow sorghum genotypes during kharif 2018-19. The experimen...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121568
The ecological Health Status of Eleme River receiving treated petroleum effluent wastes from Eleme Petroleum Refinery Company was evaluated using a combined approach of biological methods; petroleum effluent bioindicators, functional diversity and community assemblage metrics, an...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121569
Realizing the prominent role of rural youth in agricultural development especially from the point of view of food security of the country, ICAR has initiated a scheme on "Attracting and Retaining of Youth in Agriculture (ARYA)". This project was launched by the Prime Minister on...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121570
Two Maize (Zea mays) varieties namely (Hudibia and Mugtama) and two harvesting times were used in this study to evaluate the effect of inorganic phosphorous(P2O5) and phosphate biofertilizers namely, Bacillus, mycorrhiza and the combination of them on maize forage quality. The ev...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121571
A field experiment was convened objective to study the interaction effect of chickpea (cicer arietinum L.) crop to sulphur and zinc elements on growth and yield attributes under rainfed condition during the Rabi season 2019-20. On a study sandy loam soil having low status of avai...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121572
Due to industrialization demand of energy is increasing and hence to meet the demand without any compromise in growth and development, alternative source of energy needs to be found. The best alternative source is biofuels which are extracted from organic compounds. Algae are aqu...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i121573