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ThesisItem Open Access A Study on Consumer Behaviour of Fungicide Usage of Rice Crop in Rudarpur, Uttrakhand(Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University Bikaner – 334006, 2022) Shivansh Tomar; Vivek VyasAgriculture is the support of India's food security, despite the entry’s enormous population and rapid growth. Agriculture employs more than 70% of the population. Over half of the country's workforce is employed in this industry, making it the biggest private sector job by far. The Indian government places a high priority on agriculture's success because of its role in the country's food security and employment. In 1950-51, agriculture's contribution to GDP was 55.4 percent; in 1960-61, it was 52 percent; and in 2012-13, it is just 13.7 percent. In addition, small and marginal farmers with relatively modest landholdings dominate Indian agriculture. Farming is the primary occupation of the vast majority of the population. Small and home-based businesses that rely on agriculture for raw materials and food are supported by this industry.ThesisItem Open Access Effect of Different Shade Net Colour and Intensity on Growth, Yield and Quality of Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) in Western Rajasthan(College of Agriculture, Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, 2021) ANITA SAINI; R.S. RathoreVegetables are key sources of many nutrients, including potassium, dietary fiber, folate (folic acid), vitamin A, and vitamin C. Among the vegetable crops tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum L.) is 2 nd most important vegetable crop after potato. It belongs to family Solanaceae. In India, it is grown throughout the year particularly in the vicinity of cities. Tomato is an important “protective food” because of its special nutritive value and versatile wide uses. It is eat up as ripe as well as in green stage. Green tomatoes are consumed as cooked vegetables and also used for pickles. Ripe tomatoes are used for making soup, juice, ketchup, sauce, puree, salad, chutney and many other products. It is an important crop for processing industry and canned vegetable tomato, top in the list amongst the processed products. Tomato fruits are rich source of carbohydrate (3.63 g), protein (0.9 g), vitamin A (585 IU), vitamin C (26 mg), starch (0.6-1.2 %), minerals like calcium (48 mg) iron (0.4 mg) and phosphorus (0.2- 0.8 g) per 100 gram of edible portion (Aykroyd, 1963) . It is known as “the poor man`s orange”. It not only possesses medicinal properties but also said to be excellent blood purifier. Pulp and juice of tomato are digestible and promoter of gastric secretions.ThesisItem Open Access Response of Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.) to Weed Control Measures and Nutrient Management(College of Agriculture, Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, 2022) POOJA KUMARI MEENA; R.C. BairwaHistorically, India has been recognized as “Land of Spices” and also known as to the world “The home of spices”. Spice is a dried seed, fruit, root, bark or vegetative substance primarily used for flavoring or coloring food. Ancient people used spices, not only to enhance flavour to foods and beverages, but, are some of the time utilized as solutions, disinfectants, incenses, stimulants, religious ritual, cosmetics or perfume production. Most of these spices are mixtures of both volatile and non-volatile nutritious components and have been used as a therapeutic meal for generations. The power of seed spices to impart biological activity is progressively reviving as a research area in human health. Secondary metabolites, also known as phytochemicals, are naturally occurring, physiologically active chemical compounds found in plants that operate as a natural defence mechanism for host plants and have previously been exploited as medications, perfumes, and flavour components. (Rathore et al. 2013).ThesisItem Open Access In vitro Micropropagation of Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) cv. Bhagwa(College of Agriculture, Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, 2022) POOJA; Susheel. KumarPomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is an important fruit that is grown in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. It is commonly known as Anar. Pomegranate is a fruit-bearing deciduous small tree and belongs to the family of Punicaceae. Iran is the starting place of pomegranate and unfolds during the Mediterranean place of Asia, Africa, and Europe (Sepulveda et al., 2000). According to Smith (1979), Punica granatum has 2n=2x=16 and 18 chromosomes. The chromosomes in somatic enhancement of Dholka, Ganesh, Khandhari, Muscat White, and Patiala sorts became observed to be 2n=16, at the same time as the double flower range had 2n=18 (Nath and Randhawa, 1959). The chromosomes in Vellodu and Kashmiri sorts became additionally observed to be 2n=18 . Floral biology of pomegranate has divulged that both self and cross-pollination in Pomegranate. The pollen from male flowers offers a better fruit set than the ones from the hermaphrodite ones. The Pomegranate fruit type is balausta, which is a modified berry containing numerous seeds. Punica granatum has two subspecies viz. Chlorocarpa and Porphyrocarpa, the former is located in the Transcaucasus region, the latter in Central Asia (Patil et al., 2002).ThesisItem Open Access Standardization of Recipe and Storage Studies of Blended Aloe vera Squash(Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University Bikaner, Rajasthan-334006, 2022) RITURAJ SHESHMA; Susheel KumarAloe vera (Aloe barbadensis Miller), the herb Aloe vera is as old as human civilization. It belongs to the family “Liliaceae”. The genus is found in Tropical and Southern Africa and Arabica. It was introduced into other parts of the world for ornamental purposes (Reynolds, 1985). The word Aloe is derived from the Arabic word “Alloeh”, meaning “bitter and shiny” substance while “vera” in Latin means “true.” Today, the Aloe vera plant has been used for various purposes in dermatology (Surjushe et al. 2008). Several species of the genus aloe have been in use under the common name of aloe viz., Aloe vera, Aloe barbadensis, Aloe ferox, Aloe chinensis, Aloe indica etc. Among these, Aloe vera Linn Syn. Aloe barbadensis Miller are accepted unanimously as the correct botanical source of aloe. In most of the references, Aloe barbadensis Miller is regarded as the correct name (Saroj et al, 2004).ThesisItem Open Access Management and Biochemical Studies on Charcoal Rot of Cowpea Incited by Macrophomina phaseolina (Tassi.) Goid.(College of Agriculture, Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, 2019) NITIKA KUMARI; A. K. MeenaCowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp] is an important pulse crop. It is grown in various parts of Indian subcontinent. It has different growth habits i.e. erect, semi-erect, trailing, climbing and bushy growths. It can be used as a pulse, vegetable as well as fodder crop in India. The consumption varies in different ways like the tender young leaves and green pods are used as vegetables while several snacks and main meal dishes like dal are prepared from the grain. The seeds can also be preserved by canning or freezing. It is also used as green manure crop. It is grown to flowering and then incorporated in soil as a green manure. All the plant parts that are used for food are nutritious. It consists of over one hundred different species widely found in the tropical and sub-tropical regions and has a great morphological and ecological diversity (Ng and Monti, 1990). It is a most versatile pulse crop since it has smothering nature and drought tolerant characters. It is a native to central Africa and belongs to the family Fabaceae.ThesisItem Open Access Variability and Genetic Divergence in Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp.] Genotypes(College of Agriculture, Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, 2020) NAVREET KAUR RAI; Dr. A.K. SharmaPulses are valuable as well as inexpensive source of plant derived proteins, vitamins and various minerals for the majority of vegetarian population in India. India's pulses requirement is projected at 32 million tonnes (MT) by the year 2030 and 39 MT by the year 2050 with an annual growth rate of 2.2% (Singh et al., 2015) which requires an all-round efforts and strategic steps in research, generating innovations, its dissemination, and commercialisation along with capacity building. Among the pulses Chickpea, Pigeonpea, Mungbean and Blackgram crops contributes up to 86-87% share in production, while minor pulses viz., Horsegram, Mothbean, Cowpea, Rajmash and Lentil contribute only 13-14% share in production.ThesisItem Open Access Dynamics of Carbon and Potassium in Soil as Influenced by STCR Based Fertilizer Recommendation on Wheat Under Clusterbean - Wheat Cropping System(2021) NARESH KUMARI; S. K. KhariaAgriculture is the backbone of indian economy because it contributing about 16.02 per cent of the country’s gross domestic production (GDP) in, and providing livelihood to about 50 per cent population. India’s food requirements are expected to go up consistently in the future without a break. With the increasing demographic pressure and remote possibility of availability of additional arable land, further augmentation in production will have to be harnessed vertically through increasing intensity of cropping and productivity with more efficient use of fertilizers and organic sources. Among the different food crops, role of cereals are highest towards transformation of Indian agriculture from deficit to sufficiency. Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is an important crop cultivated for food and feed under a wide range of agro-climatic conditions in India. India stands in second position next to china in the world with regard to area and production of wheat. In India, wheat is grown on 29.14 million hectares with total production of 102.19 million tonnes with average productivity of 3507 kg ha -1 (Anonymous, 2020). Rajasthan contributed 10.49 million tonnes of wheat from 3.0 million hectares area with productivity of 3501 kg ha -1 (Anonymous 2020) to the national pool. Wheat productivity is highly variable within different agro-ecologies of India, due to variable climatic conditions, genotypes, seeding time and practices and other management practices (Kantwa et al., 2015).ThesisItem Open Access Studies on Shelf-life and Value Addition of Ber (Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk.) cv. Gola(College of Agriculture, Swami Keshwanand Rajasthan Agricultural University, 2021) NARESH KUMAR; Susheel KumarBer (Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk.), is one of the most common fruits, indigenous to an area between India and China. The genus Zizyphus has been derived from “Zizaif” which is the Arabic name of the fruit (Baily,1947). It is one of the important underutilized fruits of India called as ‘King of arid zone fruits’. It belongs to the family Rhamnaceae which has about 50 genera and more than 600 species (Pareek, 1983). According to De Candolle (1886), the centre of origin for this fruit crop is central Asia and it is found growing wild as well as in cultivated forms throughout the warmer regions up to an altitude of 1500 metres above mean sea level. It is one of the most hardy fruit crop extensively grown in arid and semi-arid regions of India. It can be successfully cultivated even in the most marginal ecosystems of the sub-tropics and tropics (Pareek, 2001). Ber is popular due to high economic returns, low cost of cultivation wider adaptability and ability to withstand drought (Gupta et al., 1983). Due to its high nutritional and medicinal properties and low-cost cultivation, it is also considered as poor man’s fruit (Gajbhiye et al., 2003).
