Drought is a disastrous natural phenomenon that significantly impacts socio-economic, agricultural, and environmental spheres. It is considered as the primary factor of uncertainty that continues to haunt Indian agriculture and its economy. In this context, the drought scenario i...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i130616
A field experiment was conducted during Rabi season (2015-16) at Instructional Farm, Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture Junagadh Agricultural University, Junagadh (India) to evaluate the identification of suitable date of sowing and variety of wheat (Triticum aestivum...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i130613
A economic analysis of passive solar distillation unit is presented in the paper. Initial cost and maintenance costs, life of the system and estimates the cost of unit mass of distilled water were used to evaluate net present worth (NPW), benefit-cost ratio, payback period (PP) a...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i130614
Sodic soils have immense productivity potential, if managed through proper technology interventions. Bio-compost is prepared by composting pressmud and gypsum received from waste material of mining can be used to reclaim sodic soils. Field experiments were conducted during the Ju...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i130615
The study has examined productivity instability of major crops for 20 years by considering first period as 1998-99 to 2008-09 and second period as 2009-10 to 2018-19 at the district level in Karnataka state. Instability categories were grouped as low < 15%, medium 15-30% ,H...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i130611
A field experiment conducted at International Crops Research Institutefor the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India to study the effect of different quality of water on growth, yield and water use efficiency of soybean during rabi 2015-16. The experiment was laid out in...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i130608
More than half of the world’s population consumes rice as a staple food in their diet. Rice grain quality is receiving attention from both consumers and producers as living standards in rice-consuming regions has improved and this emerged as a critical rice breeding target. Grain...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i130609
A two years study was conducted at Agricultural Research Station, Tandur, Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Telangana, India during two consecutive kharif seasons of 2018 and 2019 to investigate the effect of tillage and weed management...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i130610
Aim: In arid and semi-arid areas recycling of water may have a greater impact on future usable water supply than any of the other technologies aimed for increasing water supply. Efforts have been taken on maximizing the benefit and minimizing the detrimental effects on people or...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i1230664
A survey was conducted in the years (2019-20 and 2020-21) in red soils of Vikarabad district covering eight mandals and soil samples were collected from four predominant land use patterns at two depths (0-15 and 15-30cm). Land use patterns studied included cultivated land with di...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2021/v11i1230728