The study assessed the yield of Pleurotus sajor-caju cultivated from the sawdust of four wood species: Triplochiton scleroxylon and Ceiba petandra (indigenous tree species), Gmelina arborea and Tectona grandis (exotic tree species). The substrates of the four wood species were pr...
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Research Article10.9734/JABB/2017/37093
Exotic plum cultivars have been introduced at Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture, Srinagar in order to broaden the spectrum of existing germplasm and recommendation of better cultivars for their commercial cultivation. The present study consisted of fourteen different pl...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/36796
This study assesses the ability of fish feeds to produce competitive commercial fish in quantity. Three hundred and one (301) fish farms were surveyed in fifteen (15) regions of Côte d’Ivoire between May and November 2013. Fish feeds and farming systems were inventoried, characte...
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Research Article10.9734/IJBCRR/2017/36595
Poor fruit set in mango is consider the main problem that reduces the production. This study aims to raise fruit set, minimize the percentage of fruit drop, increase tree yield and improve fruit quality by providing the trees with biosimulated nano materials (calcium/yeast nanoco...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/36395
Fodder crops cultivation in India is gaining momentum to overcome the feed and fodder shortages for the farm animals. Application of nutrients for fodder crops is a rare phenomenon and the package of practices are not adopted by the farmers to increase the productivity. Fodder c...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/35659
Field experiment was conducted to assess the effect of nitrogen and farmyard manure (FYM) on leaf content of pear cv. Punjab Beauty. The 15 treatments comprised of nitrogen levels i.e. 0, 200, 400, 600 and 800 g per plant and farmyard manure i.e. 30, 60 and 90 kg/plant. The nitro...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2017/35851
The study on the effect of rates of poultry dropping on the growth and yield of Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) was conducted at the Teaching and Research Farm of the Federal College of Education (Technical) Omoku, Rivers State, Nigeria. The school is located at latitude 5°2’N and...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/34553
Ravi Kumar, Randhir Kumar, Amit Kumar & Divakar Kumar Bharati·Advances in Research·2017
Heterosis is widely utilized for the selection of superior cross combinations. Since the heterosis has become commercially feasible in developing hybrid brinjal. In the present investigation, six parents were selected on the basis of divergence and crossed in diallele design. The...
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Research Article10.9734/AIR/2017/35385
Promoting the use of low phosphorus (P) and acidity tolerant bean genotypes in highly acidic and low P soils is a long term cost-effective strategy to increase bean production in sub-Saharan countries. Moreover, the performance of beans under the widespread soil related stresses...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/33390
Polliana Basilia Santana, Ignacio Aspiazú, Édio Luiz da Costa, Daniel B. Teixeira Pinheiro, Matheus Ferreira França Teixeira, João Batista Ribeiro da Silva & Hamilton Carvalho dos Santos Junior·Journal of Experimental Agriculture International·2017
Irrigation is a major factor on sugarcane yield, especially on semi-arid regions. Genetic degenerated varieties, presenting low yield and quality, are still being planted on semi-arid regions. This study objective was to evaluate the agronomic performance of six sugarcane varieti...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2017/35775
Cibelle Engels, Fabiana Aparecida Rodrigues, Ademir de Oliveira Ferreira, Thiago Massao Inagaki & Alexandre Lima Nepomuceno·Annual Research & Review in Biology·2017
The soybean crop is exposed to many adverse environmental conditions; among them, it is the drought stress, which is responsible for great losses on crop yield. The crops productivity improvement may have a limit due stress factors, as noted by its stabilization in the past years...
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Research Article10.9734/ARRB/2017/35232
The effects of lime (calcium carbonate) on the growth and yield of Mucuna flagellipes were studied in 2012 and 2013 cropping season respectively at the Teaching and Research Farm of the Department of Agronomy, Cross River University of Technology, Cross River State, Nigeria. The...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/22741
Aims: To select high yielding variety(s) of rapeseed-mustard suitable for cultivation in the high land areas under partially irrigated conditions after harvest of T. Aman rice. Study Design: Split plot. Place and Duration of Study: Farmer’s fields at Sylhet, Bangladesh during Nov...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAAR/2017/34638
A field experiment was conducted during winter season of 2015-16 at agricultural farm of IFTM University, Lodhipur Rajput, Moradabad (UP), India, to evaluate the effect of NPK, Sulphur and FYM on growth and yield of mustard (Brassica juncea L.) in western Uttar Pradesh. The exper...
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Research Article10.9734/AJSSPN/2017/35637
Hexaquonickel (II) bis-p-toluenesulfonate [Ni(OTs)2·6H2O] was prepared from the reaction of p-toluenesulfonic acid (PTS) and nickel hydroxide [Ni(OH)2]. Energy disperse spectroscopy, thermal-analysis instrument, infrared spectrometer, and X-ray diffractometer were used to charact...
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Research Article10.9734/AJOCS/2017/35519