After 1971 seasons, Cocoa and other tree crops production have declined substantially in recent times owing to several agricultural complex constraints which have affected the production of the farmers and the sustainability of agricultural production. Productivity is the main de...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/31321
Background: Sugarcane is a major commercial crop grown in tropical and subtropical areas of the world, including West and Central Africa. Across this region, smut, leaf scald and pokkah boeng are considered as endemic diseases, the first two being economically important. Aims: Th...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42266
Aims: An experiment was conducted to study the influence of commercially available liquid fertilizers on local chilli germplasm. Study Design: The experiment was laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design with four replications. Place and Duration of Study: The experiment was c...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42318
Sheila Bigolin Teixeira, Stefânia Nunes Pires, Gabriele Espinel Ávila, Diogo da Silva Moura, Rejane Peter, Vera Lucia Bobrowski & Sidnei Deuner·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2018
Aims: This study was conducted to evaluate the role of Daucus carota L. root extract in cytogenetic parameters of Oryza sativa L. seeds exposed to salinity. Study Design: The experiment installed was in a completely randomized design, in a 2x4 factorial scheme, with four replica...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42487
The experiment was conducted at the farmers’ field, Bahadurpur village, Sunamganj Sadar upazila, Sunamganj district, during November 2014 to May 2015 to study the effect of fertilizers and irrigation practices on the growth and yield contributing characters of boro rice (cv. BRRI...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/40182
Yana Souza Lopes, Weydson Nyllys Cavalcante Raulino, Lucidalva Ferreira Sobrinho, César Henrique Alves Borges, Uaine Maria Félix dos Santos, Luiz Carlos Marangon & Ana Lícia Patriota Feliciano·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2018
The Atlantic Forest is considered one of the richest areas of biodiversity on the planet. However, it has been continuously threatened and must receive strategies aiming for its restoration and conservation. Thus, the objectives of this work were to evaluate the arboreal componen...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42199
Kleiton Rocha Saraiva, Thales Vinícius de Araújo Viana, Solerne Caminha Costa, Francisco Marcus Lima Bezerra, Clayton Moura de Carvalho & Raimundo Rodrigues Gomes Filho·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2018
Even with the growing scenario of water scarcity, in the Northeastern semi-arid region, the irrigation management is still not properly managed, resulting in the waste of scarce water resources in the region. The ISAREG model has been used in several countries, being able to assi...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42422
The investigation on the role of pre-harvest application of paclobutrazol and ethephon on fruit quality of winter guava cv. Sardar was conducted in the well-maintained guava orchard of Department of Agriculture, Khalsa College, Amritsar during 2016-2017. The experiment comprised...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/41852
Development is a desirable change that brings improvement in the standard of living of majority of the people. Especially improvement in the nutritional status and health of the people, increase in their real income and per capita income as well as improvement in the educational...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42017
Eduardo Henrique Lima de Lucena, Emmanuel Damilano Dutra, Elvira Maria Regis Pedrosa, Rômulo Simões Cezar Menezes, Jose Nildo Tabosa, André Luiz de Carvalho, Mário Monteiro Rolim, Renisson Neponuceno de Araújo Filho, Dário Costa Primo, Jadson Emmanuel Lopes Antunes & Victor Casimiro Piscoya·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2018
Sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) has high potential to produce ethanol as a complementary crop to sugarcane, whose industry generates large amounts of waste that can be used as fertilizer. The effect of using vinasse and filter cake in the sweet sorghum production was ev...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42574
The study of terroirs is related to the understanding of a certain small territory, in which different local factors provide products with distinct qualities. This study had the objective to evaluate the influence of climatic, soil and topographic factors on the terroir and also...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/41499
A field experiment was conducted to ascertain the Influence of Date of sowing and number of cuttings on leaf yield and quality of seed in Palak (Beta vulgaris var. bangalensis) in Experimental Field, Division of Vegetable Science, SKUAST-K Shalimar during three consecutive rabi s...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42076
Rodrigo Nogueira Martins, Ailton Rodrigues de Oliveira, Leticia Thália Silva Machado, Fernando Ferreira Lima dos Santos, Wagner da Cunha Siqueira & Juliana Aparecida de Souza Santos·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2018
There is still a lack of information in the literature regarding the sampling grid size and its effect on the accuracy of soil attributes spatial variability mapping. Thus, the present study aimed to evaluate the influence of different sampling grid sizes regarding accuracy for s...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42681
Problem: That flood hazards affect agriculture is common knowledge. However, how flood hazards affect risk attitudes is not fully known. This work models the influence of flood hazards on risk attitudes in agriculture-dependent communities. Study Design: We elicit risk attitudes...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42141
Jerffeson Araujo Cavalcante, Natali Almeida Evangelista Pereira, Kilson Pinheiro Lopes, Lucian Alex dos Santos, Joseano Graciliano da Silva, Augusto Henrique Maciel Silva, Nander Ferraz Hornke & Anielson dos Santos Souza·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2018
Aims: It was aimed to evaluate the physical, physiological quality and the chemical composition of castor seeds of different cultivars originating from different orders of racemes. Study Design: The experimental design used was the completely randomized design with four repetiti...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2018/42456