Coconut is an important horticultural crop which has a significant bearing on the livelihood security of small and marginal farmers across the nation. Trend analysis was done on the expansion of coconut acreage in Tamil Nadu over the past two decades and the simultaneous expansio...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i54520
Danielle Christelle Tinak Ekom, Jean Cyrille Mouen Piau, Haïcha Diko Abba, Oungvan Memena, Rodrigue Simonet Poueme Namegni & Abel Wade·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2024
Rice is the staple food for billions of people and a source of income for hundreds of millions. This food security crop production needs to be improved to face the projected demands of the exponentially augmenting world’s population and overcome biotic and abiotic stress in the f...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2024/v39i42071
Among the fungal diseases causing significant yield loss in rice, sheath blight caused by Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn is the most important ranked the second most important disease worldwide after blast and a serious threat in rice growing areas of the world and causes more economic...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2024/v46i52375
Daniel M Menge, Ruth N Musila, Sammy Kagito, Lourine Bii, James Gichuki, Emily Gichuhi, Caroline A. Kundu, Rosemary Murori, Abdelbagi Ismail & Ajay Panchbhai·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2024
Sub-Saharan Africa faces significant challenges as a net importer of rice, with self-sufficiency rates plummeting to as low as 14% in countries like Kenya. The Mwea irrigation scheme shoulders the bulk of rice cultivation, contributing over 80% of the country’s production. Howeve...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpss/2024/v36i54508
Rice, Oryza sativa L., is the world's most important staple crop, feeding more than half of the world's population. The phenotype of plant is the result of interaction of many factors and final yield is the sum of total effect of several component factors. Therefore evaluation of...
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Research Article10.9734/acri/2024/v24i4658
Rice, Oryza sativa L., is the world's most important staple crop, feeding more than half of the world's population, protein plays important role in human nutrition. Protein is the second most abundant storage matter in rice grain. Protein, crucial for growth, antibody production,...
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Research Article10.9734/ejnfs/2024/v16i31397
The present study was conducted under rice-wheat cropping system in Chhattisgarh Plain of Madhya Pradesh to find out the extension and technological gap in technological interventions under farmers FIRST project at College of Agriculture, Balaghat. The 60 demonstrations on farmer...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2024/v17i2418
Water-deficit stress tolerance in rice is important for maintaining stable yield, especially under rain-fed ecosystem. After a thorough drought-tolerance screening of 200 rice genotypes from DBT, Network Rice Project in our previous study, 19 rice lines were selected for drought...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i3719
The three land races viz. land races -1 (Lal Kada), land races -2 (Futiyu) and land races -3 (Kala Rata) were sown in organic media to investigate the uptake of nitrogen in the form of amino acid as substitute for inorganic nitrogenous fertilizers in their seedlings.The four conc...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2024/v14i34031
The field investigation aimed to examine the impact of various organic nutrient sources on rice var. GNR-7 at the organic farm of ASPEE College of Horticulture, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Gujarat during the kharif season of 2021. The experiment was structured using...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2024/v46i42341
Frontline demonstrations were conducted with recommended scientific package and practices at farmer’s fields in the Chhattisgarh plain agro-climatic zone of Balaghat district, Madhya Pradesh to evaluate the performance of two rice varieties viz., JR-81 and JRB-1under irrigated co...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2024/v46i32362
A field experiment was conducted during Kharif 2022 at Crop Research Farm, Department of Agronomy, SHUATS, Prayagraj (U.P). The treatments consist of three levels of zinc and three levels of boron and one control was used. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design wi...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2024/v14i23992
Aims/ objectives: This study aims to improve stable and sustainable rice varieties adaptable to changing climatic conditions. It involves assessing genetic variability and Genotype X Environment interaction (G x E) among 186 diverse rice genotypes. The goal is to select genotypes...
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Research Article10.9734/jabb/2024/v27i2701
The present field experiment was conducted at crop research farm Nawabganj of C.S. Azad University of Agriculture and Technology Kanpur, under the Central Plain zone of Uttar Pradesh, during Kharif season of 2018. The experiment comprised of 9 treatment combinations in randomized...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2024/v14i23979
A total of 1110 ENRRD rice germplasm accessions were evaluated for their resistance to brown planthopper, BPH in glass house by adopting internationally accepted standard seed box screening technique and scored on 0-9 scale by following the IRRI method of standard evaluation syst...
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Research Article10.9734/jeai/2024/v46i32322