The field experiment was conducted in 2018 and 2019 cropping season to determine the effects of urea stable and urea on nitrogen use efficiency and maize performance in highland Nitisol of Midakegn and Toke Kutaye districts. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete bloc...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2231355
Background: Maize plays an indispensable role in meeting high food demand. It is globally one of the most widely adopted and cultivated crops. Hybrid development from fixed inbred lines is one of the strategies for the improvement of maize production. The national average maize y...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2131276
Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the important cereal crops of the world and world’s third most leading cereal crop, after wheat and rice. Maize is affected by various biotic and abiotic stresses. Among the biotic stresses, fusarium wilt of maize caused by Fusarium verticillioides i...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i1130973
This study aimed at utilizing unmanned aerial vehicle in place of a conventional hand sprayer for the smart delivery of agricultural inputs especially crop nutrients. A field experiment was conducted in the farms of Agricultural Research Station, Bhavanisagar, Tamil Nadu Agricult...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i1130972
The experimental materials consisting 218 maize double haploids and two commercial checks were screened at CIMMYT-BISA-Ludhiana-Punjab under natural cold stress (winter sowing) during rabi 2019-20. Data was recorded on leaf necrosis (seedling stage), ear leaf length, ear leaf wid...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2131247
An experiment was conducted at Students’ Instructional Farm, Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology, Kanpur. The aim of the study to evaluate the different sources of nutrient on nutrient content of maize (Zea mays L.) and their residual effect on succeed...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2022/v34i2031227
Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of different soil amendments on plant growth parameters and economics in maize (Zea mays L). Place and Duration of Study: Maize variety 900-M-GOLD was cultivated during rabi 2014-15 at College Farm, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, PJTSAU, Hyde...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i1130942
Six generations of two maize crosses were used for computation of generation mean analysis under moisture stressed and non-stressed conditions for yield and drought related traits. Epistasis was observed for all the traits studied in two crosses in both the moisture conditions. T...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2022/v41i2231758
Chelated iron formulations are gaining importance due to their higher use efficiency and favourable effect on crop growth and yield. At present, chelated iron formulations prepared using synthetic chelating agents are used by farmers which are harmful to the ecosystem. Hence, an...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2022/v41i2231754
Chelated iron formulations prepared using synthetic chelating agents are widely used and they are harmful to the environment. The present study was aimed at developing and evaluating new chelated iron citrate formulation. New chelated iron citrate formulation with 10.9% Fe was de...
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Research Article10.9734/cjast/2022/v41i2231756
India is one of the key producer of food grains, oilseeds, sugarcane and other agricultural products. Agricultural crops generate considerable amounts of leftover residues, with increase in food production crop residues also increasing. These leftover residues exhibit not only re...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i1030920
This study aimed to estimate deoxynivalenol (DON) and total aflatoxin in two varieties of millet, sorghum and maize, in some markets of Makurdi metropolis, North-Central, Nigeria using direct competitive Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) method. Moisture content, total ae...
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Research Article10.9734/irjpac/2022/v23i230460
Seed sowing is an essential and time-bound process agriculture. The basic objective of the sowing operation is to put the seed in rows at the desired depth and maintain seed to seed spacing, covering the seeds with soil and providing proper compaction over the seed. Early or post...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i1030874
The study concluded that the scheme 'Mera Pani Meri Virasat' is proved helpful in crop diversification of paddy with maize. Farmers showed that armyworm in maize deteriorate the quality of maize which demotes the crop diversification from paddy with maize. The government’s assist...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2022/v40i930988
Maize is (Zea mays L.) is one of the versatile and diversified crop grown under different agro-climatic conditions. Twenty-eight experimental hybrids along with eight inbred lines and one commercial check were evaluated at agricultural polytechnic, Polasa, jagtial to determine co...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i1030864