To study the effect of sulphur and boron on post-harvest soil fertility status, a pot experiment was conducted at Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Institute of Agricultural sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi during the kharif season of 2017 taking...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/44529
Studies on antifungal effect of garlic (Allium sativum) essential oil and wood ash were determined on causative agents of post-harvest fruit rot of banana. Different concentrations of essential oil of garlic (0.15, 0.50, and 1.0%) and quantities of wood ash (0.1, 0.3 and 0.5g) we...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/29614
Though needed in very small quantities, micronutrients are as important as primary and/or secondary nutrients in yield-formation and in enhancing crop-quality. Twenty four field experiments (18 sulfur response; and six sulfur rate determination), therefore, were conducted to eval...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/44106
Trichoderma is an environment friendly soil borne fungus that speeds up decomposition of organic materials into compost. Currently, many farmers in Bangladesh are using Tricho-compost to increase soil fertility and to get higher crop yield. A study was conducted with the purpose...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43590
The goal of the research was to determine the concentration of lead, copper, cadmium, zinc and iron in the soil of different pH, the degree of contamination in the intensive production of Elstar apples, as well as the impact of soil contamination on the concentration of heavy met...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43373
Periploca angustifolia as an endangered plant species were grown at Balouza Research Station (North Sinai, Egypt) during the period from November, 2016 to April, 2018 including three months seedling stage, two months transplanting and establishment stage, and 12 months plant old...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/44540
Damaged and depleted soils need to be rebuilt, improved and used efficiently to support permanent agriculture. Generally there have been several attempts to use cover crops as soil amendments to improve soil management and conservation while improving soil productivity. This expe...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43186
The long periods or rotation cycles of forests production are sources of uncertainty in the predictions of future forest conditions. The rotation cycles of the different types of forests in Europe vary between 30 to 200 years. There is a lot of uncertainty in forecasting the futu...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/43669
In October 2015 and 2016, onion plants of Barke Aliero exhibiting characteristic symptoms of dried leaves beginning from the tip, abnormal protrusion, root discoloration and curling of the stalk from tip was observed in Kebbi State, Nigeria. In both cases, disease was very severe...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/38339
Dário Costa Primo, Rômulo Simões Cezar Menezes, Renisson Neponuceno de Araújo Filho, Aldo Torres Sales, Emmanuel Damilano Dutra, Eraldo Rodrigues da Silva, Rosa Virginia Tavares Grangeiro, Everardo Valadares de Sá Barretto Sampaio, João Lucas Aires Dias, Victor Casimiro Piscoya & Moacyr Cunha Filho·International Journal of Plant & Soil Science·2018
Several studies have demonstrated that organic fertilisers or ground rocks may be a viable alternative to industrialised chemical fertilisers in some agricultural systems. The present study aimed to compare the effects of ground phosphate rocks, gliricidia prunings and chemical f...
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Research Article10.9734/IJPSS/2018/44177