Finger millet (Eleusine coracana) production in Eastern Africa remains low due to a variety of factors including soil nutrient depletion. As intensive row-crop production evolves, improvements in managing soil nutrient quantity and availability of less renewable nutrients like P...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2016/30151
A new combination fungicide Nativo 75 WG composed of Trifloxystrobin 25% (Strobilurin) and Tebuconazole 50% (Triazole) was tested against rice blast and sheath blight diseases under field condition during Autumn 2014 and - 2015. The combination fungicide Trifloxystrobin 25% + Teb...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2016/28893
Currently the technologies which are available in Bangladesh agriculture, integrated pest management (IPM) are one of the most important to them. Reasonably, the objectives of the study were to determine the adoption extent of IPM practices by the rice farmers and to determine th...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2016/29132
Climate change is a serious threat to poverty alleviation in developing countries as it can sweep several decades of development efforts. It is one of the constraints to achieving potential crop yields, and it is a factor that is often not considered in agriculture development pr...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2016/29056
The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of antibiotic and bio-fungicide for control of seed borne fungi of wheat during November to April. 2015-2016. In this study, two treatments viz. Control, Aureofungin (Antibiotic) with 100 ml water, and Allium sativum leaf extract wit...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/28988
Papaya in vitro-based micropropagation has been attempted for a number of cultivars. This effort has mainly been geared towards production of multiple unisexual planting stocks in large-scale production of papaya. In this study, a comparison was made on growth performance between...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2016/29760
Hybrid vigor expression in rice was studied for some agronomic traits in 15 hybrids involving six parents using half diallel mating design. Analysis of variance showed significant differences in parent's vs crosses for all studied traits. The high manifestation of heterosis for g...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2016/29742
Field experiment was carried out during 2015-2016 in rainfed condition at Indian Cardamom Research Institution (ICRI), Regional Research Station, Spices Board Research farm at Kabi, North Sikkim, India. The experiment was laid out in a Randomized Block Design, with eight treatme...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2016/28710
The performance and carcass characteristics of West African dwarf (WAD) sheep fed Panicum maximum supplemented with Moringa oleifera, Gliricidia sepium or cassava fodder, were investigated in a randomized complete block and completely randomized design experiments respectively. T...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2016/25167
Brown leaf spot disease is the most serious disease of rice. 25 varieties were screened against brown leaf spot caused by Helminthosporium oryzae during session (Kharif) 2014 and 2015. The results were four varieties recorded viz. NDR-359, CR-1, CR-2 and N-18 in highly resistant....
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2016/29059