Arbind K. Choudhary

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What are good habits that successful persons practice???

The meaning of success has been variable in time and space. It has been defined by several great persons in their own ways. The one definition that fascinates me relates to "success is a natural...

02 January 2021 4,456 70 View

What are the three easy, simple, practicable and highly beneficial health tips that can lead us healthy?

We all are very busy in our professional pursuit. It becomes sometimes very difficult to practice physical exercise, cycle riding, and the like on daily basis. Many of us may be suffering from...

05 October 2020 3,693 89 View

Why do biological cells and processes usually use ATP as energy source, why not GTP, CTP, TTP or UTP??

It is interesting to observe that almost all biological cells and processes use ATP as energy source. Why it is so?? Dear RG members please enlighten.

04 August 2020 982 16 View

Are there effective measures to prevent substantial economic loss due to blister beetle (Mylabris pustulata) in early pigeonpea?

Pigeonpea is a preferred host to adult blister beetle (Mylabris pustulata). Early pigeonpea, which is sown during May 15-June 15 in North West and north east plains of India, enters into flowering...

29 July 2020 1,456 8 View

Whether application of data science is equally important in agriculture including crop improvement??

In recent years, data science has emerged as a promising interdisciplinary subject, and helped understand and analyze actual phenomena with data in multiple areas. The availability and...

09 June 2020 6,678 6 View

Whether agriculture in India is robust enough to contribute substantially so as to minimise the expected decline in GDP in post Corona scenario??

Before the Corona pandemic, agriculture sector in India contributed around 15 percent to the total GDP growth. In the present scenario, service and industrial sectors are bound to pull down the...

28 April 2020 9,762 11 View

Does the occurrence of one disease affect the intensity and severity of other diseases in plants??

Cool season pulses such as chickpea, lentil, grass pea, faba bean, etc are affected by a number of root and foliar diseases. Empirical observation revealed that there was minimal incidence of root...

27 March 2020 922 26 View

What are low cost agricultural production technologies? Whether their adoption can uplift the incomes of small and marginal farmers in India??

Indian agriculture is dominated by small and marginal farmers, accounting for over 86% of the total farmers. Small and marginal farmers own just 47.3% of crop area with low outputs and paltry...

01 January 1970 8,224 22 View

Do you think that stastical significance test in biological or social science experiments has lost its relevance and implication??

Valentin Amrhein, Sander Greenland, Blake McShane and more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects of statistical significance:...

01 January 1970 8,702 18 View

Is it appropriate to designate a review paper as Review Research Paper??

A good review paper deals with collection and compilation of comprehensive information on a given aspect based on published data. As it also carries opinion, concluding remarks and/or future...

01 January 1970 7,267 4 View

Whether it is easy to breed disease resistant crop varieties compared to insect resistant ones??

The availability of relatively large number of disease resistant varieties compared to insect resistant cultivars suggest that incorporating disease resistance is relatively easy. This is also...

01 January 1970 7,048 4 View

What are the major symptoms and causes of aging? Whether it can be slowed down, and can ever be prevented?

Every one passes through the aging process. Most of us are not aware of the actual symptoms, and causes of aging. Most of gerontologists are searching the ways it can be prevented. The era of gene...

01 January 1970 10,021 97 View

Do you think adding profile picture, affiliation to organization and a brief description about work to your account enhance your credibility at RG??

I have observed that about 10-15% of my RG followers do not have their profile picture. Some of them even did not mention the professional organization which they belong to. Still in other cases,...

01 January 1970 7,905 94 View

Do biofortified crops and varieties have potential to mitigate global problem of micronutrient deficiencies with no ill effects on soil & environment?

Worldwide over 2 billion peoples have shown ‘hidden hunger’ for micronutrients such as iodine, Fe, vitamin A and Zn. The deficiencies of these four micronutrients are of greatest public health...

01 January 1970 7,211 39 View

Despite technological developments and policy support during the last one decade, why has Rice-Fallow area not visibly come down in India?

Since the last one decade, the area under Rice-Fallow has been invariably documented around 11.7 mha. During the period, significant technological advances in RCT, Conservation Agriculture, crop...

01 January 1970 9,066 10 View

Whether Productivity gains in cultivated Vigna is the outcome of genetic enhancement, management practices or a combination of the two??

The productivity gains in the cultivated Vigna (notably Green gram and black gram) over the last 7 decades in India have been around 100%. Breeders have been successful in significantly reducing...

01 January 1970 6,749 6 View

Do herbicides used to control weeds in agricultural production adversely affect human life in multiple ways? If so, should it be banned globally?

The chemicals that farmers use to kill weeds pose hidden dangers to people, animals and the environment. While herbicides help to increase the food supply and boost the economy, they also...

01 January 1970 1,238 41 View