With increasing awareness of the environmental pollution and health hazards associated with the use of synthetic dyes on textiles involving eco-friendly processes of dyeing textiles has become imperative. Due to the ban by Germany on the use of azo dyes in textiles garments imported to Germany, quite some excitement has come to prevail in the textile processing...

A field experiment was conducted to study the influence of irrigation schedules and weed management practices on growth and yield of blackgram, on sandy loam soils of S.V.Agricultural College Farm, Tirupati, during summer, 2001. The study was laid out in a split - plot design with three replications. The treatments comprised of four irrigation schedules viz., ...

Fertilizer industry has been the backbone of Indian agriculture. Chemical fertilizers played a vital role in India’s Green revolution and they continue to play a predominant role in India’s agriculture economy. The progress of Indian Agriculture has been going through different phases. Over years specific policy initiatives have set the direction and steered th...

Twenty four Nellore ram lambs with an average body weight of 18.81±0.5 kg were randomly distributed into 4 groups each comprising of 6 animals and fed conventional diet (R1) containing concentrate and chopped sorghum straw and a complete diet containing 15% detoxified neem seed cake in three different forms namely mash (R2), expander extruder processed pellets ...

Banana being a typical climacteric fruit is more prone for deterioration and has less shelf life. So far, no systematic effort has been made to study the effect of various post harvest application of polyamines and AOX inhibitors on prolonging shelf life in different varieties of banana. Hence, a set of four experiments were conducted to study the effects of p...

A field experiment was conducted during February to April, 2001 at Students’ Farm, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad to “study the effect of organic and inorganic sources of nitrogen on yield and quality of okra”. Two cultivars viz., cv. Arka Anamika and cv. Parbhani Kranthi were selected for this study. The treatments consisted of 4 levels (25,...

A field experiment was conducted during kharif 2002 at Rice Section, Agricultural Research Institute, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad on clay loam soil of medium in available N, high in available P and K to find out the influence of organic farming on rice yield and quality. The treatments consisted of two farming practices (organic and inorganic) and six rice variet...