Aims: More than 54% of soils in West Bengal are Zinc (Zn) deficient and therefore, Zn−fertilization is assumed to play a key role not only for increasing potato yield but also for combating wide spread deficiency of micronutrients (mainly Zn) in many potato growing areas of the s...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/33844
Poor soil fertility, viral diseases and pest infestations are major constraints on the production of okra in Africa. The study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of compost in minimizing okra mosaic disease (OMD), flea beetle infestation and improving the yield and quality...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/32753
Green pepper production based on the package of recommendations developed has not given the desired growth and yield performances in the world and specifically Kenya. Information is required with which to evolve the agronomic practices that will be adopted to maximize yield in gr...
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Research Article10.9734/ACRI/2017/33101
This study was conducted from December 2015 to March 2016 at the rice field area of the University of Southeastern Philippines, Mabini Campus, Compostela Valley Province. It was conducted to evaluate the bioefficacy of Greenshield Organic-Based Fortified Foliar Fertilizer (GOFFF)...
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Research Article10.9734/AJSSPN/2017/33267
Morphological and yield related traits of 31 genotypes were studied to ascertain the genetic and phenotypic correlations among some morphological traits and contribution of these traits to the yield under rainfed conditions directly and indirectly in NERICA mutant rice lines. Fie...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2017/32756
Low temperature stress adversely affects plant growth and development and it directly affects the yield and quality of tomato. Phenolic compounds have been implicated to mitigate cold stress. Therefore an experiment was conducted to find out suitable concentration of phenolic com...
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Research Article10.9734/BJAST/2017/32889
Introduction: An experiment was conducted during the period from October 2012 to April 2013 at Horticulture farm of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh to evaluate the response of bell pepper with foliar feeding with micronutrients and shoot pruning. Methods:...
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Research Article10.9734/JAERI/2017/31620
Aims: This research was conducted in pot of trials at the farm land of Lawra-Yagtuuri in the Upper West Region to determine the effect of Rhizobia inoculants, Boostxtra, and appropriate Phosphorus Fertilizer level required for cowpea growth and yield. Study Design: The research...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2017/31025
Aim: To study the effect of sowing dates on dry matter partitioning and yields of soybean cultivars field experiment was carried out at Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal. Materials and Methods: Ten varieties of soybean were raised in two sowing dates under rainfed conditio...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/31404
The increasing demand for organic cereals especially indigenous scented rice varieties in the recent years has peaked farmers’ interest towards its organic production. However, the threat of crop loss under organic cultivation has been holding back large scale initiatives. Inhana...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2017/31361
One of the ways of increasing soil nutrients and crop yield is by applying fertilizer which could be from inorganic or organic sources. Pot experiment was conducted at the screen house of the Teaching and Research Farm of Faculty of Agriculture, Akwa Ibom State University, Nigeri...
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Research Article10.9734/ARJA/2017/31907
A field experiment was carried out to study the effect of sulphur and lime application on sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) alley cropping. The results revealed that, increased application levels of sulphur up to 30 kg/ha significantly increased the plant height (136.91 and 151.83 cm),...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/31492
The present study was conducted to identify Zn efficient/inefficient wheat genotypes through application of Zn. A field experiment was conducted during 2009-10 and 2010-11 under AICRP on micro-secondary nutrients and pollutant element in soils and plants at Department of Soil Sci...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2017/31514
Field trials were conducted at the Teaching and Research Farm of the Department of Crop Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka during early planting season (April - November) and late planting season (July – December) in 2013 to determine the impact of fungicides and fungicide sp...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2017/25061
The present research work was carried out to study the yield of chickpea as affected by boron application. Five varieties of chickpea namely BARI Chola-5, BARI Chola-6, BARI Chola-7, BARI Chola-8 and BARI Chola-9 and four levels of boron (0, 1, 2, 3 kg B ha-1) were used in this e...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2017/8944