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ThesisItem Open Access BUYING BEHAVIOUR OF CARS - A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RURLA AND URBAN OWNERS OF SOLAN (H.P.)(DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES COLLEGE OF FORESTRY DR. YASHWANT SINGH PARMAR UNIVERSITY OF HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY ; SOLAN, 2004) KUMAR, ASHOK; BALI, ROMILLAThesisItem Open Access COMBINING ABILITY STUDIES AND INHERITANCE OF FRUIT COLOUR IN BELL PEPPER (CAPSIUM ANNUM L.)(DR. YASHWANT SINGH PARMAR UNIVERSITY OF HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY ; SOLAN, 1994) KUMAR, ASHOK; RATAN, R. SThesisItem Open Access DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A SOLAR TUNNEL DRYER FOR DRYING VEGETABLES AND FRUITS(Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology & Science (Formerly Allahabad Agriculture Institute) Allahabad - 211007 (U. P.) INDIA) KUMAR, ASHOK; Moses, S. C.Drying is one of the simplest and oldest methods of preservation of vegetables. As concentration of solids is the dried vegetable become high, water activity reduces greatly; product becomes chemically stable and free from insect, pest attack and mould, yeast growth during storage. Use of solar energy for drying application is gaining- importance because of growing realization of pollution free nature of renewable energy. But the direct use of the solar energy as a drying energy for the drying of vegetables, fruits and other small plants is not convenient, because it require more time and the ingredient values of them has affected by direct sun light and the drying process is also not universal. So overcome of these problems many researchers had designed and fabricate several solar dryer in the past and these dryer have many advantages and disadvantages. In this, a modified and high efficient solar tunnel dryer has developed and fabricated and also evaluated it for five samples (potato, onion, pineapple, methi and mint) at various sites being developed and fabricated in the farm machinery labs, SHUATS, Allahabad. Developed solar tunnel dryer have many component. Such as semi cylindrical tunnel, main frame, frame base, solar collector, dryer, trays, air inlet and outlet, wire mesh sheet and fan system. After the fabrication of the solar tunnel dryer, the performance evaluation was carried out by many means and quantities for the five samples. For this purpose, each sample have taken and dried for the six days and observed the value of temperature rise (θ), change in humidity of the drying chamber by the inlet and out air, reduction in the moisture value and also find out the drying rate of the solar tunnel dryer which was found as maximum 25.5oC and minimum 2.2o C rise temperature. Due to this rise temperature,ThesisItem Open Access EFFECT OF DRIP IRRIGATION LEVELS ON GRWOTH, YIELD AND FRUIT QUALITY OF APPLE UNDER HIGH DENSITY PLANTATION(COLLEGE OF HORTICULTURE DR. YASHWANT SINGH PARMAR UNIVERSITY OF HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY, 2006) KUMAR, ASHOK; CHAUHAN, P. SThesisItem Open Access EVALUATION OF SOYBEAN [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] GENOTYPES FOR HORIZONTAL RESISTANCE TO LEAF SPOT (Phyllosticta glycines Thuem.)(UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK BANGALORE, 2001-05-25) KUMAR, ASHOK; ANIL KUMAR, T.B.ThesisItem Open Access GENETIC VARIABILITY, CORRELATION AND PATH ANALYSIS IN BRINJAL (SOLANUM MELONGENA L.)(1984) KUMAR, ASHOK; RATTAN, R. SThesisItem Open Access INTEGRATION OF SOIL SOLARIZAITON WITH BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL METHODS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF FUSARIUM YELLOWS OF GLADIOLUS(COLLEGE OF HORTICULTURE DR. YASHWANT SINGH PARMAR UNIVERSITY OF HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY ; SOLAN, 2005) KUMAR, ASHOK; GAUTAM, H. RThesisItem Open Access Land and Environmental Suitability Evaluation for Sustainable Agricultural Land Use Planning of Buraka Micro-watershed in Mewat Region of Haryana(MPUT, UDAIPUR, 2020) KUMAR, ASHOK; Singh, DilipThe study was carried out in the economically backward and minority community dominated Buraka micro-watershed area of Taoru block in Mewat Region of Haryana in the two consecutive years of 2017 and 2018. The micro-watershed with an area of 542.4 ha was delineated into seven LMUs. Out of them, five LMUs namely LMU2, LMU3, LMU4, LMU5 and LMU6 belonged to irrigated ecosystem while LMU1 and LMU7 to rainfed ecosystem. LMU5 and LMU6 reported to have less constraint for agriculture and other land uses as compared to LMU1. Majority of the micro-watershed area had loamy sand texture soils and also soil pH in the range of 6.8 to 8.0. Average values i.e., 0.18 per cent revealed that soil organic carbon status was low to very low in most of the soils while available nitrogen and phosphorus with their respective values149.1kg ha-1 and 9.2 kg ha-1 indicated low status whereas available potassium value 142.9 kg ha-1 indicated medium status. Land suitability evaluation revealed that maximum area i.e., 40.9 per cent comes under LCC III. Soil suitability evaluation revealed that LMU1 found to be permanently not suitable (N2) for growing any crops while, LMU 5 found to be highly suitable (S1) for pearl millet, pigeon pea, cluster bean, sesame, mustard and potato and moderately suitable (S2) for sorghum, maize and cotton, wheat, barley and gram in terms of current soil suitability (CS) and potential soil suitability (PS). Household socio-economic survey was conducted in the cultivated LMUs using stratified random sampling technique. Results of the socio-economic survey revealed that majority of the farmers belong to marginal and small landholding categories. Farming was dominant occupation and mostly practiced by the respondent farmers belonging to the age group of 41-50 years (34.85%) followed by 51-60 years age group (25.76%). Male, female, and total literacy rate recorded in the large holdings of surveyed households was high i.e., 62.17, 49.70 and 55.94 per cent, respectively. Resource endowments status revealed that 77.3 * Ph.D. Scholar ** Professor & Head, Department of Agronomy, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, MPUAT, Udaipur -313001 per cent households owned land, 92.4 per cent livestock, 65.2 per cent tube-wells and 50.0 per cent electric motors whereas 22.7 per cent owned tractors. Large holdings in LMU5 recorded highest PEY i.e., 7.9 t ha-1 and 8.1t ha-1, under pearl millet-wheat and pearl millet-mustard cropping systems, respectively besides, high pearl millet, wheat and mustard yield i.e., 2.5 t ha-1, 4.5 t ha-1 and 2.1 t ha-1, respectively. Energy ratio or efficiency was also observed to be highest under large holdings of LMU5 in case of pearl millet i.e., 12.2 and lowest i.e., 7.4 in wheat. Besides, large holdings of LMU5 recorded high energy efficiency i.e., 10.9 under pearl millet-mustard system compared to relatively low values i.e., 9.8 of pearl millet-wheat system. Carbon efficiency found to be high under large holdings of LMU5 and was highest in pearl millet (14.9) followed by pearl millet-mustard system (12.5). Economic efficiency of pearl millet revealed high net return i.e., 33548 ha-1 and high B C ratio i.e., 1.50 in large holdings of LMU3. Wheat recorded highest net return i.e., 60975 ha-1 in large holdings of LMU5 and high B C ratio i.e., 2.28 in medium holdings of LMU3. Mustard recorded high net return i.e., 58588 ha-1 and B C ratio i.e., 2.47 in large holdings of LMU5. Large holdings of LMU5 recorded high net return i.e., 94429 ha-1 and B C ratio i.e., 1.87 in pearl millet-wheat system, and also high net return i.e., 92041 ha-1 and B C ratio i.e., 1.97 of pearl millet-mustard system. Beside crops, livestock also contributed in livelihood of the farmers, and it was observed that medium holdings of LMU3 recorded highest pooled net monthly earning of 8036. Interventions were suggested to improve the production potential of each LMU viz., silvi-culture in the foothills and side slopes for LMU1 while integrated approaches such as INM, IPM and IWM beside soil conservation measures, HYVs and IFS model for other LMUs. Based on the integration of soil, socio-economic and suggested intervention approaches land use options were suggested for each LMU, which inter alia included agriculture, agri-silviculture, livestock and silvi-pasture for LMU2 while, agriculture, agri-horticulture and livestock for LMU3, LMU4, LMU5 and LMU6 to ensure optimum land use and livelihood security. Silvi-culture may be suggested as a land use options for LMU1 while, silvi-culture, silvi-pastures and livestock based options for LMU7. Thus, these options can be recommended for sustainable agricultural land use planning of Buraka micro-watershed for ensuring environmental health and livelihood security.ThesisItem Open Access STUDIES ON EVALUATION AND GENETIC VARIATBILITY IN SOME GENETIC STOCKS OF CABBAGE(COLLEGE OF HORTICULTURE DR. YASHWANT SINGH PARMAR UNIVERSITY OF HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY ; SOLAN, 1998) KUMAR, ASHOK; THAKUR, M. CThesisItem Open Access STUDIES ON INCIDENCE, BIOLOGY AND CONTROL OF TICKS OF BOVINE OF CHOTANAGPUR AND SANTHAL PARGANA(Birsa Agricultural University, 1987) KUMAR, ASHOK; Ansari, M.Z.The thesis embodies the results of investigations on the incidence and intensity of tick infestation in cattle and buffaloes in seven districts of Chotenagpur and senthalPargana of Bihar, biology with particular reference to the effect of temperature and humidity on different developmental stages associated with life cycle of most commonly available species of ticks, oophiluspicroplus and Hyaloage (H) A. anetolicua and control of .nioroplus with two synthetic pyrethroido, cypermethrin and fenvalerate; also the level of serum acetylcholinesterase (che) in the tick-infested and pyrethroid-trosted groups of cow calves and buffolo calves, Studies on incidence revealed that out of 18,613 bead of cattle and buffaloes examined, 2,726 (14.645) were found tick infested. Statistically, the incidence was found to be highly significant (P < 0.01) between cattle and buffaloes, the values being 15.277% and 10.998%, respectively. The date between different age groups; young and adult, revealed highly significant variation in cow calves and adult cattle, but non-significant between cattle calves and buffalo calvos. Breed-wise incidence was found to be significantly higher (17.035%) in cross-breds, as compared to indigenous cattle (13.641 %).ThesisItem Open Access STUDIES ON RESISTANCE TO FUSARIUM WILT IN SOME CULTIVARS OF PEA (PISUM SATIVUM L.)(COLLEGE OF HORTICULTURE DR. YASHWANT SINGH PARMAR UNIVERSITY OF HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY, 1993) KUMAR, ASHOK; KOHLI, U. KThesisItem Open Access STUDIES ON THE FORAGING RANGE AND LONGEVITY OF HONEYBEE WORKERS (APIS MELLIFERA L.)(HIMACHAL PRADESH UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL COMPLEX COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, SOLAN, 1972) KUMAR, ASHOK; SHARMA, P. LThesisItem Open Access STUDIES ON THE FORMING RANGE AND LONGEVITY OF HONEYBEE WORKERS (APIS MELLIFERA L.)(HIMACHAL PRADESH UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL COMPLEX COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, SOLAN, 1972) KUMAR, ASHOK; SHARMA, P.LThesisItem Open Access STUDIES ON THE PARASITES OF POULTRY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CONTROL OF POULTRY MICE(RAJENDRA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, 1974-08-08) KUMAR, ASHOK; SAHAI, B.N.; SINGH, S.P.ThesisItem Open Access STUDIES ON THE PARASITES OF POULTRY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CONTROL OF POULTRY RICE(BIHAR VETERINARY COLLEGE, 1974-08-09) KUMAR, ASHOK; SAHAI, B.N; PRASAD, TARKESWARThesisItem Open Access STUDIES ON THE ROLE OF ULTRASONOGRAPHY IN FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE DISORDERS OF CATTLE(Rajasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bikaner - 334001, 2009) KUMAR, ASHOK; GAHLOT, A KThesisItem Open Access A STUDY OF RELATIVE EFFICIENCY OF CALCIUM AMMONIUM NITRATE AND UREA AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF NITROGEN ON GROWTH YIELD AND QUALITY OF DWARF VARIETY OF WHEAT KALYANSONA(JNKVV,JABALPUR, 1972) CHOUBEY, S.D.; KUMAR, ASHOK