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Understanding the ionic composition and physicochemical properties of salt-affected soils (SAS) is vital for their rehabilitation. The sodium adsorption ratio (ESR), exchangeable sodium ratio (SAR), exchangeable sodium percent (ESP), ESR–SAR relationship, and Gapon’s selectivity coefficient (KG) were determined...

A comprehensive understanding on soil salinity appraisal is prerequisite for development and execution of rehabilitation programs and productive agricultural use of salt-affected soil (SAS). Indian agriculture since pre-independent era has been providing top priorities to rehabilitate SAS for&...

Results of the multi–location field trials (Mundri, Kaithal, Haryana; Budhmore, Patiala, Punjab and Moiudinpur, Etah, Uttar Pradesh) showed that the sole application of Reliance formulated S (RSF)/or its conjunctive application with gypsum declined soil pHs of surface 0-15 cm soil layer ...

The soil health card parameters analysed for 116 samples in duplicate showed similarity in the soil fertility rating developed by both soil testing methods namely soil testing machine ‘Dharti ka Doctor’ and soil analyzed following the standard procedures in the laboratory. Parameter wis...

Soils collected from S-w showed greater pH1:2 (8.83) followed by Su (8.54), Fa (8.47), R-w (8.37), R-b (8.35), S-b (8.13), Veg (8.04) (P<0.05) (Table 1). The Walkley–Black organic carbon (WBOC) content was greater for soils collected from Veg (6.76 g kg-1) field followed b...

Drought is the one of the most hazardous abiotic stress resulting in huge losses to crop yield worldwide. Plants have evolved diverse ways to eliminate the harmful effect of different stresses. The acquisition of important plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in rhizosphere is&#x...

Time series modelling deals with time based data (minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years) to derive hidden insights to make informed decision making. In time series modelling, past observations of the same variable are collected and analyzed to develop a model describing the un...

Coconut is an important plantation crop which India holds third position in production. Coconut has the never ending list of uses also is facing numerous hurdles adding pressure to the mere survival of the sector. With increasing human population forecasting methods can help ...

Arecanut is an important plantation crop which India holds number one position in area and production. Arecanut has the never ending list of uses i.e. for chewing purpose, as medicine, as vegetable, as stimulant, fuel wood, lubricant, tannin, wrapping, clothing etc.,(Aman, 1969). Arecan...

Indian fisheries and aquaculture is an important sector of food production, providing nutritional security to the food basket, contributing to the agricultural exports and engaging about fourteen million people in different activities. Fish production in India has increased at a higher rate&...

Goods and Services Tax (GST) is paradigm shift to Indian Economy. Introduced in the year 2016 it has widened the tax base by including more number items in the list of taxation abolishing multiple tax system on single item and distributing the tax proceeds among the ...

Discriminant function analysis (DFA) is primarily used for predicting the probability of an observation belonging to a given class or category based on one or multiple predictor variables (continuous and/or categorical). It differs from logistic regression in the grounds that, the DFA&#...

Ever increasing population coupled with diminishing available land for agricultural purposes poses serious concern to the planners to meet the challenging demand for food and nutritional security. To boost the productivity from per unit use of natural resources per unit time plant prote...

In econometrics, cointegration analysis is used to estimate and test stationary linear relations, or cointegration relations, between non-stationary time series variables such as consumption and income, interest rates at different maturities, and stock prices. The significance of cointegration analysis...

Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model is used to forecast future values of a series based on past values. Box-Jenkins or ARIMA model is one of the popular linear time series models and can be applied in different domain of agriculture to forecast time se...

The importance of spatio-temporal modeling is increasing day by day in many areas with the growing accessibility of spatio-temporal data. The spatio-temporal time series data exhibits spatio-temporal relationships among themselves. Therefore, it is essential to recognize those relations and �...

Micronutrient malnutrition is a major global public health concern. To curtail this, dietary diversity characterized by the consumption of cereals, pulses, vegetables, and fruits is often advised. Herein lies the need for screening of different cultivars of commonly consumed food crops for&#...

Deterioration of soil quality under resource-intensive modern agriculture in the face of global climate change poses a huge risk to food security. Because of the complex nature, estimators of soil quality often rely upon a limited set of soil attributes, along with statistical data...

Forecasting in agriculture is a formidable challenge, more so when it needs to be based on objective, systemic methods also having the aspects like timeliness and accuracy. Its need and usefulness for farmers, planners, researchers, agribusiness firms and other stakeholders need hardly ...

Farmers Producer Company (FPC) has emerged as a new business model for the rural area. Like agriculture and horticulture, it is working in poultry sector too. With an intuition to find out the impact of poultry based Farmer Producer Company on upliftment of rural people, ...

Book Chapter: Designing Field experiments in Agro-Forestry

Apple crop is the predominant temperate fruit in the high hills of Himachal Pradesh (HP), India, primarily due to the ideal temperate climate of the region characterized by high altitude and significant snowfall. This study aims to examine the marketing aspects of appl...

General Crop Estimation Surveys (GCES) based on Crop Cutting Experiments (CCEs) are conducted for estimation of crop yield following random sampling approach for almost all major crops. About 13 lakh CCEs are conducted every year which has now increased rapidly due to the Pradhan&#...

Farmer’s perception towards any policy or services is highly important for any policy makers and servicemen to analyse any current new project and to establish new service centres respectively. Current study was conducted in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. In the present study, perception...