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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

Volume 6 Issue 2, June 2010

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1 A MODEL ORGANIC FARM - AN HOLISTIC APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE– M. JAYARAM REDDY, V.C. REDDY, N. JAGADEESHA AND A. SATHYANARAYANA REDDY

2 EFFECT OF CHEMICAL WEED CONTROL ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF DIRECT SEEDED PUDDLED RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.)– K.S. MOHAN, T.V. MUNIYAPPA, K.N. KALYANAMURTHY, Y.M. RAMESHA AND H.R. SAVITHA

3 INFLUENCE OF ORGANIC FERTILIZERS AND SULPHUR LEVELS ON YIELD, QUALITY AND ECONOMICS OF CLUSTERBEAN (CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBA L. TAUB.)– V.S. BAVISKAR, P.G. SHETE AND R.A. DASPUTE

4 GROWTH AND YIELD OF RICE AS INFLUENCED BY AGE OF SEEDLINGS AND INTEGRATED N MANAGEMENT FOR LATE PLANTED SITUATION– A. UPENDRA RAO, K.M. DAKSHINA MURTHY AND T.V. SRIDHAR

5 EFFECT OF SPACING AND GENOTYPES ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF AEROBIC RICE– M.K. BASAVARAJA, K. MURALI, SIDDARAM, Y.M. RAMESHA, H. YOGEESHAPPA AND H. PRAKASH

6 STUDIES ON ECONOMIC RETURNS OF SUGRACANE BASED INTERCROPPING SYSTEM– M.W. SURYAWANSHI, M.G. UMATE AND A.P. THOMBRE

7 INFLUENCE OF MALE TO FEMALE RATIO ON PRODUCTION OF HYBRID COTTON SEED (NHH-44)– D.B. WAGHMODE, R.A. KATARE, P.K. WAGHMARE AND P.B. KEDAR

8 AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF ANIMAL-AGRICULTURE IN CENTRAL U.P.– RAHUL KUMAR RAI AND D.S. SINGH

9 PRODUCTIVITY OF TURMERIC SEED AS INFLUENCED BY METHODS OF PLANTING AND LEVELS OF FYM– AMIT DIXIT, SOMNATH CHOUDHURY AND NEELAM CHOUKSEY

10 EFFECT OF FYM AND INORGANIC FERTILIZER ON GROWTH AND YIELD AND RABI GRAIN AMARANTH (AMARANTHUS HYPOCHONDRIACUS L.)– Y.M. KUSHARE, P.G. SHETE, S.L. ADHAV AND V.S. BAVISKAR

11 SUCKING PESTS AND BOLLWORM STUDIES OF LATE SOWN BT COTTON (GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM L.) AS INFLUENCED BY DIFFERENT PLANT SPACINGS, FERTILIZER LEVELS AND NAA APPLICATIONS UNDER IRRIGATION– VISHWANATH BIRADAR

12 ECONOMICS OF TRANSPLANTED PIGEONPEA IN SOLE CROPPING AND FINGER MILLET BASED INTERCROPPING SYSTEM– D.S. POORNIMA, B.C. SHANKARALINGAPPA, K.N. KALYANA MURTHY AND H.R. SAVITHA

13 EFFECT OF PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS ON MORPHOPHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND YIELD IN BITTERGOURD– GEETA BIRADAR, C.M. NAWALAGATTI, M.B.DODDAMANI AND M.B. CHETTI

14 STUDIES ON HERITABILITY AND GENETIC ADVANCE IN MUTANT POPULATIONS OF SESAME (SESAMUM INDICUM L.)–M.B. BORANAYAKA, S.M. IBRAHIM, C.R. ANANDA KUMAR, D.S. RAJAVEL, T.V. SHADAKSHARI AND G. RAGESHA

15 EFFECT OF WEED MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON WEED FLORA, DENSITY, WEED CONTROL EFFICIENCY AND YIELD OF SOYBEAN UNDER AGRO-CLIMATIC SITUATION OF CHHATTISGARH– SANDEEP SHARMA, P. S. RATHIYA AND D.K.GUPTA

16 RESPONSE OF SUMMER CLUSTERBEAN [CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBA (L.) TAUB.] TO ORGANIC FERTILIZERS AND DIFFERENT LEVELS OF SULPHUR FOR VEGETABLE PURPOSE– V. S. BAVISKAR, P.G. SHETE AND R. A. DASPUTE

17 INFLUENCE OF PLANTING LAYOUTS ON YIELD AND QUALITY OF SORGHUM FODDER– A.A. SHAIKH, M.M. DESAI AND R.S. KAMBLE

18 EFFECT OF DIFFERENT SOURCES OF NITROGEN ON YIELD AND QUALITY OF CABBAGE (BRASSICA OLERACEAE L. VAR. CAPITATA)–B.G. HIWALE, P.G. NAIK AND S.V. KAWATHE

19 EFFECT OF INTEGRATED WEED MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF SOYBEAN (GLYCINE MAX L.) UNDER AGRO-CLIMATIC SITUATION CHHATTISGARH– SANDEEP SHARMA AND D.K.GUPTA

20 RESPONSE OF DWARF WHEAT TO DATE OF SOWING AND WEED CONTROL METHODS– R.R. PARMAR

21 WEED SUPPRESSION ABILITY OF RICE GENOTYPES UNDER LOWINPUT CONDITION IN CHHATTISGARH– A.B. JADHAV, P. KATIYAR AND R.F. THOMBRE

22 RESPONSE OF SUNFLOWER TO MOISTURE CONSERVATION PRACTICES AND PLANTING GEOMETRY– M.B. GULED, V.S. SURKOD AND C.B. KABADAGI

23 STUDY ON VARIATION AND SELECTION PARAMETERS IN RAGI GENOTYPES (ELEUSINE CORACANA GAERTIN.) – D.D. KADAM, R.D. NIGADE AND S.R. KARAD

24 EFFECT OF NURSERY MIXTURES ON NUTRIENT CONTENT AND QUALITY PARAMETERS OF SEEDLINGS OF DIFFERENT TREE SPECIES– S.B. DEVARANAVADGI, S.Y. WALI, S.B. PATIL,M.B. JAMBAGI AND D.N. KAMBREKAR

25 IMPACT OF FRONT LINE DEMONSTRATION ON PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY OF GARLIC CV. GODAVARI IN DHULE DISTRICT OF MAHARASHTRA– J.K. DHEMRE AND S.B. DESALE

26 EFFECT OF RHIZOBIUM SEED INOCULATION, NITROGEN AND PHOSPHORUS ON GROWTH, NODULATION, FLOWERING AND SEED YIELD OF COWPEA CV. PUSA PHALGUNI (VIGNA UNGUICULATA WALP)– B.N. PATEL AND D.K. JADAV

27 EFFECT OF AGE OF SEEDLINGS UNDER DIFFERENT SYSTEM OF RICE INTENSIFICATION (SRI)– B.N. MANJUNATH, R. BASAVARAJAPPA, SIDDARAM, A.S. POLICEPATIL, H. YOGEESHAPPA AND K.N. KALYANAMURTHY

28 EFFECT OF VARIOUS TILLAGE AND NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON GROWTH AND YIELD ATTRIBUTES OF GROUNDNUT (ARACHIS HYPOGAEA L.)– S.B. PATIL, P.C. BALAKRISHNA REDDY, SHARANAPPA, B.C. SHANKARALINGAPPA AND BAPURAYAGOUDA B. PATIL

29 EFFECT OF DIFFERENT LOCATIONS ON YIELD AND YIELD TRIAL OF POTATO (SOLANUM TUBEROSUM L.)– NAGEENA NAZIR, ATHAR ALI KHAN, ANJUM RASHID AND SAMEERA SHAFI

30 SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND ITS EFFECTS ON CROP PRODUCTION–A.V. TAK AND V.B. TAK

31 PHYSIOLOGICAL ATTRIBUTES OF RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.) AS INFLUENCED BY SESBENIA ACULEATA AND OTHER ORGANIC SOURCES OF NUTRIENTS– HARISH H. DESHPANDE, P. DEVASENAPATHY AND S.B. PATIL

32 RESPONSE OF BT-COTTON HYBRIDS FOR TARGATED YIELD UNDER NORTHERN TRANSITIONAL ZONE OF KARNATAKA–A.S. POLICEPATIL, B.M. CHITTAPUR, B.N. MANJUNATH, H. YOGEESHAPPA AND SIDDARAM

33 EFFECT OF TILLAGE AND NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON SOIL PROPERTIES AND YIELD OF RAINFED GROUNDNUT– S.B. PATIL, P.C. BALAKRISHNA REDDY, B.C. SHAKARALINGAPPA, SHARANAPPA AND BAPURAYAGOUDA B. PATIL

34 PHYSIOLOGICAL AND QUALITY CHARACTERISTIC IN SEED OF COWPEA (VIGNA UNGUICULATA (L.) WALP) CULTIVARS– SANJAY SINGH

35 YIELD, YIELD PARAMETERS AND ECONOMICS OF PIGEONPEA (CAJANUS CAJAN (L.) MILLSP) AS INFLUENCED BY GENOTYPES, PLANTING GEOMETRY AND PROTECTIVE IRRIGATION– G. PRAMOD, B.T. PUJARI, M.K. BASAVARAJA, VIJAY MAHANTESH AND VENKATE GOWDA

36 EFFECT OF BIOFERTILIZER AND GIBBERELLIC ACID ON YIELD CONTRIBUTING CHARACTER OF ONION– H.S. WAGHMODE, R.S. PATIL AND B.S. PANDURE

37 STUDIES ON THE ROLE OF HONEYBEES IN HYBRID SEED PRODUCTION OF SAFFLOWER –U.K. KADAM, P.R. PALANDE AND P.D. KHADE

38 BALANCED NUTRITION OF CHICKPEA IN GROUNDNUT-CHICKPEA CROPPING SYSTEM– R.A. SINGH, I.P. SINGH AND EKHLAQ HAIDER

39 EFFECT OF NITROGEN LEVELS THROUGH ORGANIC SOURCES ON GROWTH, DRY MATTER PRODUCTION AND NUTRIENT UPTAKE OF IRRIGATED AEROBIC RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.)– SIDDARAM, K. MURALI, B.N. MANJUNATHA, Y.M. RAMESHA, M.K. BASAVARAJA AND A.S. POLICEPATIL

40 EFFECT OF CHEMICAL WEED CONTROL ON NUTRIENT UPTAKE AND ECONOMICS OF DIRECT SEEDED PUDDLED RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.)– K.S. MOHAN, T.V. MUNIYAPPA, K.N. KALYANA MURTHY, Y.M. RAMESHA AND H.R. SAVITHA

41 INFLUENCE OF GREEN MANURE AND DIFFERENT ORGANIC SOURCES OF NUTRIENTS ON YIELD AND SOIL CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.) GROWN UNDER LOWLAND CONDITION– HARISH DESHPANDE AND P. DEVASENAPATHY

42 EVALUATION OF SULPHATE AND CHLORIDE DOMINANT SALT TOLERANCE OF GROUNDNUT GENOTYPES BASED ON PHYSIOLOGICAL TRAITS– H.P. GAJERA, S.V. PATEL, J.K. KANANI AND B.A. GOLAKIYA

43 SEED YIELD AND NET RETURNS OF DRIP IRRIGATED LATE KHARIF CASTOR (RICINUS COMMUNIS L.) AS INFLUENCED BY PLANT GEOMETRY AND NITROGEN LEVELS– R.A. PATEL, J.J. PATEL AND A.S. PATEL

44 EFFECT OF ORGANIC MANURES ON PRODUCTIVITY OF FINGER MILLET AND REDGRAM INTER CROPPING SYSTEM UNDER PROTECTIVE IRRIGATION– N. JAGADEESHA, V.C. REDDY, N. KRISHNAMURTHY AND T. SHESHADRI

45 EFFECT OF DEPTH OF ROOT PRUNING AND COPPICING HEIGHT OF GLIRICIDIA SEPIUM ON GROWTH, YIELD AND ECONOMICS OF RABI SORGHUM IN ALLEY CROPPING SYSTEM– S.Y. WALI, S.B. DEVARANAVADGI, S.B. PATIL, M.B. JAMBAGI AND D.N. KAMBREKAR

46 PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT HERBICIDE IN WEED GROWTH OF CHICKPEA (CICER ARIETINUM L.)– SUNIL KUMAR, RAGHUVIR SINGH, ASHOK KUMAR AND NARENDRA KUMAR

47 INFLUENCE OF LOW TEMPERATURES STRESS ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF RICE– K.M. DAKSHINA MURTHY AND A. UPENDRA RAO

48 GENETIC ARCHITECTURE FOR YIELD AND ITS COMPOSITION IN CASTOR (RICINUS COMMUNIS L.)– P.B. PATEL AND H.C. PATHAK

49 STUDIES ON SPACING AND NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF ECLIPTA PROSTRATA L. AND RESIDUAL SOIL PROPERTIES – S. KALITA, P.L. SINGH AND B. SINGH

50 NEW VISTAS IN ORGANIC AGRICULTURE – PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE–V.C. REDDY, N. JAGADEESHA, G.S. KRISHNA REDDY, G.G.E. RAO AND A. SATHYANARAYANA REDDY

51 EFFECT OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC SOURCES OF NITROGEN ON QUALITY OF CABBAGE (BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. CAPITATA L.)– V.V. DALAL, P.S. BHARADIYA AND V.D. AGHAV

52 INTERCROP ASSOCIATION OF PIGEON PEA (CAJANUS CAJAN) WITH LITTLE MILLET (PANICUM SUMATRENCE L.)– N.B. PATIL, S.I. HALIKATTI, Y.H. SUJAY, B.H. PRASANNA, KUMAR, SANJAY C. TOPAGI AND V. PUSHPA

53 GROWTH AND YIELD OF POTATO INFLUENCED BY IRRIGATION REGIMES, PLANTING LAYOUT AND FERTILIZER LEVELS– R.R. NIMBALKAR, B.A.SHINDE, M.M. CHANDANKAR AND S.M. EKATPURE

54 HETEROSIS AND INBREEDING DEPRESSION IN COWPEA– K.S. YADAV, H.S. YADAVA AND H. DIXIT

55 FIBRE YIELD AND FIBRE WEIGHT OF MESTA VARIETIES AS INFLUENCED BY SPACING AND NUTRIENT SOURCES– K. PUSHPA AND R. KRISHNA MURTHY

56 SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF NAGINA-22 DROUGHT TOLERANT ESTS FOR DROUGHT SPECIFIC SSRS– PRASHANT VIKRAM, ALOK KUMAR SINGH AND S.P. SINGH

57 PRODUCTIVITY AND FIBER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT THROUGH TRANSGRESSIVE BREEDING IN DESI COTTON– BASAMMA KUMARI, S.T. KAJJIDONI, P.M. SALIMATH AND MALAGOUDA PATIL

58 STUDIES ON THE IMPACT OF IRRIGATION OF DISTILLERY SPENTWASH ON THE NUTRIENTS OF CREEPER MEDICINAL PLANTS– S. CHANDRAJU, R. NAGENDRASWAMY, GIRIJANAGENDRA SWAMY AND C.S. CHINDANKUMAR

59 VALUE ADDITION OF POTATOES AND CHILLIES BY FARMERS OF JALANDHAR DISTRICT OF PUNJAB– KULDIP KUMAR, AJAY SHARMA, PRABHJOT KAUR AND D.S. DHILLON

60 HETEROSIS STUDIES FOR GRAIN YIELD AND ITS COMPONENTS IN PEARL MILLET– K.J. VAGADIYA, K.K. DHEDHI, H.J. JOSHI, H.B. VEKARIYA AND A.S. BHADELIA

61 EFFECT OF PLANT PRODUCTS AND INSECTICIDES ON BRUCHID (CALLOSOBRUCHUS CHINENSIS) INFESTATION, SEED VIABILITY AND VIGOUR OF SOYBEAN DURING STORAGE– V.K. DESHPANDE, HARISH H. DESHPANDE AND SANJAYA C. TOPAGI

62 EFFECT OF NITROGEN AND SULPHUR APPLICATION ON GRAIN YIELD, NUTRIENT UPTAKE AND QUALITY OF SUNFLOWER OIL (HELIANTHUS ANNUUS L.) IN INCEPTISOL– SYED SHUJAT HUSSAIN AND F.A. MISGIR

63 EFFECT OF PLACEMENT OF FERTILIZERS AND POULTRY MANURE UNDER DRIP IRRIGATION ON GROWTH AND YIELD ATTRIBUTES OF BRINJAL (SOLANUM MELONGENA L.)– S.M. SALUNKHE, S.S. PINJARI, R.S. DEORE AND T.R. BIRARI

64 ADOPTION OF AGROMET ADVISORY SERVICES (AAS) FOR IMPROVING LIVELIHOOD OF RURAL FARMERS– N. JAGADEESHA, B.T. RAVINDRABABU, H.K. PANKAJA AND M.B. RAJEGOWDA

65 EFFECT OF BIO AND INORGANIC FERTILIZERS COMBINATION ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF SOYBEAN– B.B. GOSAVI, G.H. KHAKHARE, B.A. SHINDE AND R.R. NIMBALKAR

66 PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS OF CROPS GROWN UNDER DIFFERENT FARMING SYSTEMS OF KASHMIR– AJAZ A. SHAH, MIR SHOWKAT, SHABEER A. RATHER, T. HUSSAIN AND R. THAPLOO

67 STUDY OF LAD, RDMP AND CGR OF LATE SOWN BT COTTON (GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM L.) AS INFLUENCED BY DIFFERENT PLANT SPACINGS, FERTILIZER LEVELS AND NAA APPLICATIONS UNDER IRRIGATION– VISHWANATH BIRADAR

68 EFFECT OF PLACEMENT OF FERTILIZERS AND ORGANIC MANURE UNDER DRIP IRRIGATION ON SOIL HEALTH AND ECONOMICS OF BRINJAL (SOLANUM MELONGENA L.)– S.M. SALUNKHE, S.S. PINJARI, R.S. DEORE AND T.R. BIRARI

69 EFFECT OF FE-EDTA ON GROWTH, YIELD AND QUALITY OF RED CHILLI (CAPSICUM ANNUUM L.)– H.R. SAVITHA, B.I. BIDARI, G.C. SHASHIDHARA, K.N. KALYANA MURTHY, D.S. POORNIMA AND K.S. MOHAN

70 YIELD AND QUALITY OF SOYBEAN (GLYCINE MAX (L.) MERRILL) AS INFLUENCED BY INTEGRATED WEED MANAGEMENT – A.A. SHAIKH, M.M. DESAI, S.B.SHINDE AND R.S. KAMBLE

71 EFFECT OF LAND CONFIGURATION, INORGANIC FERTILIZERS AND LEVELS OF FYM ON QUALITY AND NUTRIENT STATUS OF RABI GREENGRAM– P.G. SHETE, V.S. BAVISKAR AND S.L. ADHAV

72 EFFECT OF AGE OF SEEDLING, ORGANIC MANURES AND NITROGEN LEVELS ON THE YIELD AND YIELD CONTRIBUTING CHARACTERS OF RICE CV. GURJARI– A.S. PATEL, J.J. PATEL, R.A. PATEL AND G.J. PATEL

73 GROWTH PARAMETERS OF LATE SOWN BT COTTON AS INFLUENCED BY DIFFERENT PLANT SPACINGS, FERTILIZER LEVELS AND NAA APPLICATIONS UNDER IRRIGATION– VISHWANATH BIRADAR

74 CONSEQUENCE OF SUPERIOR CROP ESTABLISHMENT IN SUMMER GROUNDNUT THROUGH PRE-SOWING SEED TREATMENTS– SNEHAL P. PATEL, P.S. BHARODIYA AND D.K. KAKADE

75 STUDIES ON RESIDUAL EFFECT OF MAIZE-LUCERNE INTERCROPPING ON SUCCEEDING BENGALGRAM– L. VENKATESH, A.S. POLICEPATIL, H. YOGEESHAPPA, B.N. MANJUNATHA, V. PARMESH, AND Y.M. RAMESHA

76 SEED SOAKING TREATMENT WITH NITRATE SALTS VIS A VIS PHYSIOLOGY OF GERMINATION AND SEEDLING VIGOR IN RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L. VAR. RATNA)– BANDANA BOSE, V.P. NIGAM AND M.K. SHARMA

77 GROWTH AND QUALITY PARAMETERS OF GRAPES (CV. THOMPSON SEEDLESS) UNDER LOW AND HIGH YIELDING VINEYARDS IN BIJAPUR TALUK– H. YOGEESHAPPA, S.I. TOLANUR, Y.M. RAMESHA, A.S. POLICEPATIL, B.N. MANJUNATHA AND SIDDARAM

78 INFLUENCE OF INTERCROPPING ON THE GROWTH AND YIELD OF LITTLE MILLET AND PIGEONPEA– N.B. PATIL, S.I. HALIKATTI, Y.H. SUJAY, B.H. PRASANNA KUMAR, SANJAY C. TOPAGI AND V. PUSHPA

79 EFFECT OF DIFFERENT SYSTEM OF RICE INTENSIFICATION ON YIELD, WATER REQUIREMENT AND WATER USE EFFICIENCY– B.N. MANJUNATHA, R. BASAVARAJAPPA, A.S. POLICEPATIL, SIDDARAM, H. YOGEESHAPPA AND J. VENKATE GOWDA