The sustainable utilization of agro-industrial waste has gained increasing importance for generating value-added products while addressing environmental and economic concerns. Discarded seeds of Garcinia gummi-gutta and Garcinia indica, produced during fruit processing, represent...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i123541
The present study was conducted at Gollapally village of Shamshabad Mandal, Rangareddy District to evaluate the effectiveness of ecologically safe Integrated Crop Management (ICM) practices in ridge gourd cultivation among farm women through on-farm demonstrations. The specific o...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i123543
Gummy Stem Blight (GSB), caused by Stagonosporopsis cucurbitacearum, is a highly destructive disease of cucurbitaceous crops such as cucumber, melon, bitter gourd and ridge gourd, leading to substantial yield losses under favorable conditions. The present investigation was carrie...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i123547
Among the five guava varieties screened for Rugose spiralling whitefly, Aleurodicus rugioerculatus Martin variety Lalith recorded less RSW population per leaf (15.00) followed by Allahabad safeda (22.00) and Lucknow-49 (27.00) whereas, variety Taiwan white recorded RSW population...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i123548
The present study was carried out for two consecutive years (2023-24 and 2024-25) at the Horticultural Research Farm, B. A. College of Agriculture, AAU, Anand, Gujarat. To assess the effects of inorganic fertilizers (RDF: 200:200:250 g NPK plant⁻¹), organic nutrient sources (FYM,...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i123480
An intensive roving survey was undertaken during Kharif/rabi 2021-22 and 2022-23 in major garlic growing regions viz., Chitradurga, Mysore, Chamarajanagar, Bidar, Kalaburagi, Vijayapura, Bagalkote, Gadag, Belagavi and Haveri districts of Karnataka. Totally 20 villages of 7 taluks...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i123481
The broiler industry has long relied on subclinical antibiotics to improve growth and feed efficiency, but rising concerns about residues and antimicrobial resistance have led to restrictions on their use. Consequently, there is increasing interest in safe, cost-effective alterna...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i123482
This research was done to investigate the influence of spacing and nutrition on its yield and cost economics under protected cultivation of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) during Rabi of 2021-22 at ICAR-KVK, Hadonahalli of Karnataka. It was undertaken with Factorial Randomized Comple...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i123483
Raghunath Ray, Hridesh Harsha Sarma, Pranjit Bharali, Ranjit Kumar Saud, Pranjit Sutradhar, Milon Jyoti Konwar, Kalyan Pathak & Seuji Bora Neog·Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology·2025
A field experiment was conducted at Instructional cum research (ICR) farm, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, during the rabi season of 2023-24 to study the impact of nano urea on crude fibre, crude protein, and crude protein yield of single cut fodder oat (Avena sativa L.)....
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i123484
The global poultry industry is expanding rapidly, but broiler production in tropical regions continues to face major challenges such as heat stress, suppressed immunity, reduced growth performance and increased mortality. Organic trace minerals (OTMs), particularly zinc, selenium...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2025/v28i123485