Agriculture plays a vital role in India's economy. 54.6 % of the total workforce is engaged in agriculture and allied sector activities (Census 2011) and accounts for 18.4 % of India's GVA at current prices during 2022-23. In recent times, precision farming has transformed tradit...
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Research Article10.9734/acri/2025/v25i71319
A economic analysis of passive solar distillation unit is presented in the paper. Initial cost and maintenance costs, life of the system and estimates the cost of unit mass of distilled water were used to evaluate net present worth (NPW), benefit-cost ratio, payback period (PP) a...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i130614
Field experiment was conducted during Rabi season of 2013-14 to evaluate the effect of weed management in potato with conventional method. There were five treatments viz. - Hand weeding @ 30 DAP, 40 DAP and 50 DAP, Weed free and weedy check. Among all treatments maximum tuber yie...
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Research Article10.9734/JEAI/2017/38277
Field experiments were performed at the Soil Science research farm of Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, during the kharif season of 2022 and 2023. This experiment primary goal was to understand, biomass and nitrogen uptake pattern of maize (Zea mays L.) grown i...
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Research Article10.9734/ajsspn/2025/v11i1483
The present investigation was designed to assess the extent of variability, genetic advance, heritability and interrelation of different traits of 19 lisianthus genotypes at ICAR-IARI Regional Station, Katrain, Kullu, HP during 2019–2021. The mean performance of different genotyp...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i530679
Rice-Wheat (RW) is a major cropping system followed in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India. This cropping system popularised with mechanisation of both mentioned crops. Increase in mechanisation, particularly use of combined harvesting enables harvesting of rice in a very short span of...
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Research Article10.9734/ijecc/2022/v12i730706
The evolution and impact of water conservation techniques in Indian agriculture, underlining their vital role in fostering sustainable resource management amidst increasing global water scarcity. It begins by exploring traditional water management practices, illuminating their hi...
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Research Article10.9734/jgeesi/2024/v28i3755