Aims: The experiment was conducted to assess the effect of vermicompost and tuber size on processing quality of potato during ambient storage condition. Study Design: Experiment was conducted in a split-plot design, where vermicompost levels were assigned to main plots and tuber...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46554
Teli Cristiane Briekowiec Kremer, Oscar Mitsuo Yamashita, Ivone Vieira da Silva, Alan Carlos Batistão, Mayara Peron Pereira, Marco Antonio Camillo de Carvalho & Adriano Maltezo da Rocha·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2019
Allelopathy studies investigate the positive and negative effects that secondary metabolites of plants, microorganisms or fungi on the development of neighboring individuals. This study aimed to evaluate the allelopathic potential of aqueous extracts of Stachytarpheta cayennensis...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46525
Soil quality is the capacity of a specific kind of soil to function, within natural or managed ecosystem boundaries, to sustain plant and animal productivity, maintain or enhance water and air quality, and support human health and habitation. This definition of soil quality encom...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/41589
Effect of graded levels of major nutrients and biofertilizers on yield, nutrient content and nutrient uptake of safflower growing in vertisols was investigated in field experiment carried out on clayey soil at College of Agriculture, Nagpur during rabi season using variety AKS/...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46223
This research was conducted with the objective of generating quantified information on the spatial variability of soil properties and apply them to improve the planning and management of acid soils in the highlands of Arsi zone, Ethiopia. In this research, the spatial variability...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46494
Hot pepper production is constrained by declining soil fertility and poor management practices in Assosa area, western Ethiopia. An experiment was conducted at Assosa Agricultural Research Center, during 2017/18 cropping season to evaluate different rates of blended fertilizers o...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46132
The study was conducted to investigate the effect of the application of cow dung to crude oil polluted soils on the growth of cowpea. It was a screen house experiment. Four rates of cow dung (0, 1, 2 and 3 g) and four rates (0, 5, 10 and 15 ml) of crude oil per 10 kg of soil were...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/41254
A field research trial at experimental station of National Maize Research Program (NMRP), Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal during winter 2015/16 was conducted to study the effects of different tillage and weed management practices on yield and yield attributing characters of winter maize (...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/44398
The work aims to study the mineralization of compost in soils and the availability of the fertilizing elements to plants. A silty sandy soil S1 and a sandy soil S2 have been used to study the elaborated compost mineralization. Soils-compost mixture (100:1) are incubated to 2/3 th...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46006
Aims: This study was carried out to test various substrates made of a mixture of earth with different proportions of organic fertilizing substances to improve the technique of mass production of plantain plantain material, and the multiplication of shelled strains (MSD). Place an...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/46147