The present scenario where erratic climate with rising temperature year by year is making it difficult to grow traditional crops like rice and wheat. In this context, the drought resistant course cereal millets are very important for future food and nutrition security. Millets in general contain three to five times more of nutrients content than the regularly c...

The present study entitled „A study on awareness and extent of utilization of crop insurance scheme in Chitradurga district‟ had been initiated focusing on extent of awareness, extent of utilization and feasibility of crop insurance scheme with the following objectives; profile characteristics of respondents. Awarenes of respondents on crop insurance scheme. Ex...

Rice is one of the most important crop in the world. However, its production is largely limited by the phosphorus (P) deficiency in many soils. Developing cultivars with tolerance to low P represents a sustainable solution to the problem of rising P fertilizer cost and diminishing natural P resources. The present investigation was carried out to study the inter...

Drought is one of the major abiotic stress limiting the productivity of agriculture in India, which effects germination, growth and productivity of crops. Successful remediation of drought prone areas for crop production is based on sustainable management practices which involves the use of drought tolerant microorganisms which are of low cost and easily adapta...

The present study entitled “Value Chain Analysis of Red gram in Karnataka” was under taken to study conceptual frame work of red gram value chain, costs and margins at different stages of value chain and their implication on farmer‟s income. Combination of purposive and random sampling techniques was used for selection of district, taluks, market functionaries ...

Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the important cereal crops of the world and world’s third leading cereal crop, after wheat and rice. Maize crop is prone to several foliar and stalk rot diseases. Among the foliar diseases, turcicum leaf blight incited by the fungus Exserohilum turcicum (Pass.) Leonard and Suggs has become a major threat and results in severe reduc...

The present study entitled “Studies on effect of silver nanoparticles against bacterial leaf blight of rice caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae” was performed at National Centre for Compositional Characterisation of Materials (NCCCM), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Hyderabad. In this scenario, silver nanoparticle synthesis was carried out using the l...

Soybean anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum truncatum (Schw.) Andrus and Moore is one of the most important seed borne diseases of soybean. Detailed investigations were carried out on symptomatology, isolation and identification of the pathogen, cultural and morphological characterization of the pathogen, in vitro evaluation of fungicides, bioagents and botani...

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) belongs to the family Solanaceae and is one of the most important vegetable crops in India. It is a good source of vitamins, minerals, organic acids, essential amino acids and dietary fibres. In India, tomato is grown in an area of about 193.7 mha. In Telangana, tomato is cultivated in an area of 0.7 mha with an annual pro...

The present study was taken up to evaluate the influence of zeolite on nitrogen use efficiency and grain yield of maize grown in red soils. A pot culture study was conducted during kharif, 2018-19 in Green House of Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad. The soil required for the present experimen...

The present study was taken up to evaluate the influence of zeolite on nitrogen use efficiency and grain yield of maize grown in red soils. A pot culture study was conducted during kharif, 2018-19 in Green House of Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad. The soil required for the present experimen...

The present study was taken up to evaluate the “Effect of zinc and iron nutrition on growth and yield of Finger millet (Eleusine coracana .L)”. An experiment was conducted during kharif , 2018 at College Farm, College of Agriculture, PJTSAU. The study was taken up in sandy loam. The soil of the experimental site was low in organic carbon (0.42 %), available nit...