A successful strategy aimed at enhancing crop productivity relies on its ability to be implemented practically in the field (farmers’ field). Many research-based activities and promising soil fertility technologies are largely not adopted. This paper examines the impact of the ag...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2018/v26i430048
Declining soil fertility is a main constraint toward attaining improved crop yields across the Africa continent. The soils within the area of study are generally poor in fertility, thus the importance of using chemical fertilizer to increase crop productivity. Experimental data f...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46983
Field experiment was undertaken during 2005-06 to 2006-07 to study the various agro-techniques for sugar beet cultivation for Northern Karnataka at Agricultural Research Station, Bailhongal, Belgaum district (Karnataka) under irrigated condition. The experiment consisted of 28 tr...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46784
Aim: The objective of the study was to develop drought tolerant cowpea inbred lines using leaf canopy temperature and grain yield under contrasting soil moisture conditions in the field. Study Design: Split plot design was used for the experiment. Place and Duration of the Study:...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/47090
Aims: The experiment was conducted to assess the effect of vermicompost and tuber size on processing quality of potato during ambient storage condition. Study Design: Experiment was conducted in a split-plot design, where vermicompost levels were assigned to main plots and tuber...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46554
Teli Cristiane Briekowiec Kremer, Oscar Mitsuo Yamashita, Ivone Vieira da Silva, Alan Carlos Batistão, Mayara Peron Pereira, Marco Antonio Camillo de Carvalho & Adriano Maltezo da Rocha·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2019
Allelopathy studies investigate the positive and negative effects that secondary metabolites of plants, microorganisms or fungi on the development of neighboring individuals. This study aimed to evaluate the allelopathic potential of aqueous extracts of Stachytarpheta cayennensis...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46525
Soil quality is the capacity of a specific kind of soil to function, within natural or managed ecosystem boundaries, to sustain plant and animal productivity, maintain or enhance water and air quality, and support human health and habitation. This definition of soil quality encom...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/41589
Effect of graded levels of major nutrients and biofertilizers on yield, nutrient content and nutrient uptake of safflower growing in vertisols was investigated in field experiment carried out on clayey soil at College of Agriculture, Nagpur during rabi season using variety AKS/...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46223
This research was conducted with the objective of generating quantified information on the spatial variability of soil properties and apply them to improve the planning and management of acid soils in the highlands of Arsi zone, Ethiopia. In this research, the spatial variability...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46494
Hot pepper production is constrained by declining soil fertility and poor management practices in Assosa area, western Ethiopia. An experiment was conducted at Assosa Agricultural Research Center, during 2017/18 cropping season to evaluate different rates of blended fertilizers o...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46132