A field experiment was conducted at the Agronomy field of central research farm of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh during the period from June 2014 to December 2014 to study the influence of nitrogen on growth and seed quality of T. Aman rice variety with...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaar/2019/v9i129989
This study assessed the impact of rising international market prices of rice on real household income and poverty in Senegal. Net benefit ratio indicator developed by Deaton (1989) to assess the impact of a change in the international rice price on household welfare were used in...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2019/46688
The present study was conducted at Agricultural and Horticultural Research station, Kathalagere, Karnataka. The experiment consisted of sixty four rice genotypes that were evaluated to study genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance for grain yield along with four yie...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2019/42305
The Indo-Gangetic plain (IGP) is an environmentally susceptible, communally momentous and economically tactical sphere of India where landscape, ground water and soil fertility are threatened by climate change. An increasing water scarcity for rice in the irrigated IGP is urging...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2018/v8i430092
As we know that rice crop is prone to stress throughout the crop growth period due to the onslaught from different pests such as insects, nematodes, diseases, weeds and rats. Among the insect pests, rice stem borer, leaf folder and gundhi bug are the major one which causes maximu...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45873
A study was conducted to determine the effects of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) concentrations and P use efficiency from Minjingu phosphate rock (MPR), Minjingu mazao and Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) fertilizers under irrigated rice (Oryza sativa L.) production in Lekitatu vill...
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Research Article10.9734/asrj/2018/v1i426355
Experiments were conducted in the screenhouse to determine the effects of watering and temperature regimes on the growth, seed yield and yield components of rice. The experiment was a split-plot scheme involving 4 x 3 x 2 factorial combinations of rice varieties (Igbemo, Millina,...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43451
A study was conducted to isolate, identify and establish the Pathogenecity test of bacteria associated with diseases affecting the aerial part of rice in kware lake. Bacteria was isolated from the infected parts collected from Kware Lake and identified by microscopy and biochemic...
Present study was conducted to characterized mutant lines of rice variety Rajendra Mahsuri-1. Genetic diversity in rice mutant lines (M3) was characterised by using RAPD markers among them at the molecular level. Altogether 78 alleles were amplified, of which 53 were polymorphic....
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/45980
Fortified rice analogues can be manufactured using broken rice flour to suit the nutrient needs of target malnourished populations whose staple food is rice. The purpose of the study was to investigate the feasibility of fortifying rice analogues with iron and zinc. The fortifica...
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Research Article10.9734/EJNFS/2019/44342
In this study, element concentrations in grains of three wild rice species (i.e., Oryza rufipogon, Oryza officinalis and Oryza meyeriana) and three cultivated rice varieties (i.e., Nipponbare, 93-11 and HY-8) as well as in leaves of Oryza officinalis and its introgression lines w...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/45221
The influence of energy inputs and form of energy on the output level for rice production in Nigeria was investigated. The sensitivity of energy inputs was estimated using the marginal physical productivity (MPP) method and partial regression coefficients on rice yield. Energy re...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2018/v1i429715
Integrated pest management is performed at intervals of 10 days, during all the season of rice cultivation, by the application of Trichoderma harzianum at a concentration of 108 spores/ml, in alternation with the mancozeb at 1000 ppm against rice blast and rice leaf spot and the...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2018/43195
Aims: The aim was to produce and evaluate the properties (proximate and functional) of pasta from blends of local rice (Oryza sativa), white cowpea beans (Vigna unguiculata) and orange-fleshed sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas (L) Lam.] (umusco/3 variety) flours as well as to evaluat...
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Research Article10.9734/AFSJ/2018/43115
This study assessed the extent to which values are added to rice and how profitable rice becomes when value is added to it through processing in Anambra-East Agricultural zone of Anambra State Nigeria. A multi-stage random sampling technique was used to sample 90 respondents. Res...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2018/41883