Why there should not be nobel prize initiated in the field of agriculture?

Agriculture is a complex system, and understanding of the system's behavior is too complex and involves biotic and abiotic interaction. Significant work in the past have been reported, which...

07 August 2016 4,240 7 View

Simple relationship for deriving available water, field capacity and wilting point in soils from soil texture and organic carbon?

pedo-transfer function for computing soil moisture retention from soil texture are reported in literature, but the coefficient of prediction from independent datasets is very poor. Our interest is...

01 February 2016 8,586 9 View

Products / technologies developed are more effective than advisory services for increase of agri-production. Can we debate on this imp topic?

Examples of products/technologies- fertilizer types (customized, fortified, foliar, organic, PGP), newer pesticides, new cultivars, agri-implements, reource conservation technologies. Few Examples...

01 February 2016 6,805 20 View

Quantification of nitrogen fixation efficiency and N-fertilization by important leguminous plants and non-leguminous plants?

N-fixation by various leguminous and non-leguminous plants is important and its quantification as function of nature of crop, crop growing condition, soil environment, soil N availability and...

01 February 2016 7,080 5 View

What is the fate of soil organic carbon with crop residues incorporation in tropical and sub-tropical environments?

Tropical and sub-tropical regions- higher temperatures, rate of OC degradation faster Residue incorporation- provides benefit to the current ongoing crop, may be next crop in rotation??? question...

01 February 2016 9,192 27 View

How can I quantify the yield reduction associated with simultaneous occurrence of several nutrients stresses?

In soil, there may be deficiency of N/P/K/Ca/S/Zn/Fe/Mn etc, everyone looks into one's compartment and gives excellent recommendation, which may not be application over space and time as many...

01 February 2016 6,117 20 View

Efficient methods for meeting the challenges of Boron deficiency in plants?

Boron deficiency is becoming a concern n south asian environments. There is a need to identify suitable inorganic/organic materials, understand the interaction between various nutrients for...

01 February 2016 2,986 4 View

Is there any empirical relation to deduce mineral N in the soil layer on the basis of Available nitrogen?

Mineral N (nitrate and ammonical form) is highly dynamic, and is generally not measured by most of the researchers, who most of the time take total N or available N in consideration for evaluating...

31 December 2015 1,835 6 View

Several soil quality indices reported in literature, but effective operational soil health service missing. Please suggest the ways.

1. Lot of information on soil test values (spatio-temporal)) available 2. Soil quality indices e.g. SQI by Ratan Lal et al, Cornell soil health index, STCR network ar Indian Institute of Soil...

31 December 2015 8,491 28 View

Any crop model for assessing growth and yield under saline/sodic conditions?

The concern of salinity/sodicity development makes us to identify alternate land use and management options for sustainable agricultural production. We are interested to specifically develop...

31 December 2015 6,879 6 View

Research on Supply Chain Management in Indian context?

Hi, I am planning to apply for the PhD degree in the Supply Chain Mgt. with specific area of "Cold Storage warehouses" during Pandemics and wars. Where lock downs and shut downs are frequent....

02 March 2021 285 2 View

Can you share me how teacher education is managed in your respective national educational system?

I feel that the practice in teacher education in my country is below the expected performance level due to very poor management system. Hope I will learn something from your experiences.

02 March 2021 1,516 4 View

How does one access the Cranet survey data on HRM practices?

Hello, The Cranet website does not provide any lead to the data obtained from their multinational survey on HRM practices. Any help on accessing the data would be most appreciated. Thank...

01 March 2021 9,536 3 View

Is there any research regarding how training and development is going to change in the era of Fourth Industrial Revolution?

As the organizations getting prepared for the fourth industrial revolution, to enhance the skills of their workforce what type of changes are necessary and going to occur in the training and...

01 March 2021 3,199 3 View

Which is suitable for use with Python? MySQL or SQL Server?

Which is suitable for use with Python? MySQL or SQL Server? What is your suggestion?

01 March 2021 3,422 3 View

Where to find data on trees in tropical agroforestry?

Hi, I'm looking for data (mainly related to management: growth rate, canopy size, soil and climate preferences, etc.) about tropical trees used in tropical agroforestry. Have you ever heard about...

28 February 2021 7,356 8 View

What role should journals play in leading academic fields?

A recent paper by Yeung and Thomas (2021) on journals in event management opens up an interesting debate on the role of journals as academic fora. They demonstrate that event management publishing...

28 February 2021 3,494 6 View

How to add missing citation?

Dear colleagues, I have found that many authors have a concern regarding their missing citation in RG because often citation in RG is lower than google scholars. I also missed some citation...

26 February 2021 928 6 View

Where i will get the Desmodium and Napier grass seeds?

26 February 2021 975 4 View

Is this the write procedure for acid digestion of soil for heavy metal analysis using AAS?

How to do acid digestion of soil sample with 3:1 aquaregia in an open vessel?

23 February 2021 3,053 7 View