Search
Now showing items 31-40 of 71
Jatropha curcas Biodiesel, Challenges and Opportunities: Is it a Panacea for Energy Crisis, Ecosystem Service and Rural Livelihoods?
In context of energy crisis and global warming, Jatropha curcas offers a great potential to combat fuel shortage and minimize carbon
emissions. J. curcas is a potential candidate for biofuel as it is drought tolerant, has ...
Moisture Stress Assessment through NDVI and Climate. Tools for Crop Managem-en t at Anantpur District, AP
Anantapur is the driest district of Andhra Pradesh and hence, agriculture conditions are very often precarious. Groundnut grows where
other crops fail and thus it is the predominant crop of Anantapur district. Groundnut ...
Balanced nutrient management: Effects on plant zinc
Participatory on-farm research on the diagnosis and
management of nutrient disorders over the last decade by
the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-
Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and its partners has established
...
Rythu Kosam (Andhra Pradesh Primary Sector Mission). Baseline Summary Report.
Andhra Pradesh has set a target for itself of becoming one of the top three states in India by 2022, in terms of socioeconomic
development and ease of doing business. The state aspires to achieve the status of a developed ...
Heavy metals concentration in soils under rainfed agro-ecosystems and their relationship with soil properties and management practices
Heavy metals are governed by parent material
of soils and influenced by the soil physicochemical properties
and soil and crop management practices. This paper
evaluates total heavy metal concentrations in rainfed soils
under ...
Quantification of Risk Associated with Technology Adoption in Dryland Systems of South Asia
Climate change increasingly becomes a challenge for smallholder farmers. Strategies that will
help farmers to cope with vulnerability are important. These strategies comprise a variety of
interventions ranging from technical, ...
Nitrogen response and water use efficiency of sweet sorghum cultivars
Sweet sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is a biofuel crop, which can be grown under tropical rainfedconditions without sacrificing food and fodder security. Three sweet sorghum cultivars (CSH 22 SS, NTJ2 and ICSV 93046) ...
Comparison of data mining approaches for estimating soil nutrient contents using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy
Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) operating in wavelength range of 350–2500 nm is emerging as a rapid and noninvasive
approach for estimating soil nutrient content. The success of the DRS approach relies on the ability ...
Balanced and integrated nutrient management for enhanced and economic food production: case study from rainfed semi-arid tropics in India
Soil degradation in the semi-arid tropics (SAT) is mainly responsible for low crop and
water productivity. In Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan states in India, the soil analyses
of farmers’ fields revealed widespread deficiencies ...
Crop coefficients of Jatropha (Jatropha curcas) and Pongamia (Pongamia pinnata) using water balance approach
Jatropha and Pongamia are potential source of bio-diesel and grow in a wide range of agro climatic zones and soil conditions. Data and knowledge available on water requirement of Jatropha and Pongamia are very scarce. Crop ...