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With the receding water table , there has been surmount pressure on developing alternative srategies of regulating irrigation requirement of fruit crops , using a variety of guiding paareeters ,...
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Microbes are considered invisible drivers of both soil health as well as plant health safeguard. A microbial species once established as an effective inoculant either as biofertilizer or as...
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Fertigation , regardless of agro-climate and crops has gained utmost popularity as next generation requirement of agriculture with some glaring changes, use of automated sensors is one of them...
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Agriculture is known to provide various innovations from time -to -time , but in the process , we sometimes land in no man's land, and often try to take agriculture to backfoot so miserably in...
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Perennial crops survive for 40-50 years in tandem , without experiencing any decline in productivity . But , many a times , this is not the case , for eaxmple , apple , pear, peach , tea and...
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Silicon is often considered as most under-rated nutrient and often , a forgotten nutrient , despite its multi-pronged role in fruit crops compared to other agronomic crops. Reported widely about...
31 August 2019 5,555 8 View
Soil organic carbon is undoubtedly claimed to be the key driver of soil fertility , the consequential effect of which is visible on a whole range of soil properties , thereby, possibly ensuring...
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Climate change is a global phenomenon , and is taking place ever since , earth came into existence . There are well marked cold and hot cycles in the history of earths climate. However , these...
16 August 2016 6,638 72 View
Behavior of crops and soils is never uniform on a geographic unit , necessitating further the utility of correct diagnosis-based nutrient application . However, there are still many discrepancies...
20 April 2016 8,871 61 View
The use of organics , either alone or in combination with microbes /chemical fertilizers , have played a vital role in sustaining the agriculture from subsistence . Production of biochars from...
21 March 2016 1,775 98 View
The current status of sustainability in agriculture will be driven by some of the latest tools of management , of which floor management is one of them . There are number of ways , floor...
22 February 2016 6,773 35 View
Plants need 16 nutrients as their basic feed. but , different forms of nutrients are used to feed a plant. Of them , a comprehensive feed called substrate is supposedly anticipated to take care...
08 February 2016 733 42 View
Webworld of microbes in soil fertility transformation is distinctly visible on various kinds of crop responses. But , responsiveness of such microbial inoculation is often claimed to be bit time...
25 January 2016 1,616 73 View
Energy crisis is growing in all dimensions , with agriculture no exception . Horizontal expansion of agriculture is now difficult day-by-day due to pressure from other options of land uses,...
04 January 2016 719 64 View
A variety of plant parts-based ( Leaf analysis, Flower analysis, Fruit analysis, Sap analysis etc. ) nutrient constraint diagnostic methods are practiced in identifying the type of nutrient...
28 December 2015 9,136 36 View
Next generation agriculture is going to survive by concepts like hydroponics/aeroponics( Either on protected cultivation or on open field basis), fertigation fitted with variable rate application...
14 December 2015 9,055 50 View
The role of nutrients in raising the crop productivity coupled with quality in undisputable. Though , we often debate about the various facets of nutrient-use-efficiency taking up various causal...
07 December 2015 2,475 54 View
Development of soil resource inventory of a given area , is considered highly imperative to take decisions on the options about the suitability of different crops in a farming system mode. At the...
27 September 2015 8,543 52 View
The importance of soil testing in fertilizer recommendation is now beyond any doubt, especially with the intervention of geo-spatial tools-aided soil fertility variograms. These developments added...
26 August 2015 143 30 View
Intervention of microbes in soil fertility transformation, maintaining soil health , and consequently the better crop response, is a almost a habit for any crop husbandry practitioner . Some...
29 July 2015 6,194 31 View
Expressing the performance of perennial crops in terms of fruit yield is more of a traditional than conventional style of crop evaluation . Mean orchard yield is most common expression of crop...
21 July 2015 3,115 18 View
Arriving at recommended doses of fertilizers( RDF) in perennial fruits is truly a complex exercise. Once this part is completed through a series of experimentation , the next question comes, how...
14 July 2015 3,095 38 View
Plant nutrition research very often neglects the most important aspect of change in shelf life of fruits in response to nutrient composition of edible part . We always believe that an improvement...
04 June 2015 8,262 29 View
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