Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the fourth most important food crop in the country after rice, wheat and maize. It is a leading crop in terms of protein and dry matter production per unit area and time. Potato is utilized in preparation of readymade products like fried items (Chips, French fries), dehydrated products (Flakes, granules, starch, gravy thicker, potato custard, powder etc.) and canned products. The per capita availability in India is about 17.7 kg (1/3 of the world average), which emphasizes further, increase in productivity. water is the key input in potato production and its...

African Marigold (Tagetes erecta L)is an important commercial flower of India, belonging to family Asteraceae. It is also known as friendship flower in the United States and represents vulgar minds. Easy cultivation and wider adaptability of the crop has increased its popularity . Flowers are sold in the market as loose flower or for making garlands, offering in temples, churches, festivals, beautification and landscape. Although marigold is a very important flower, yet very little research work had been done towards the crop improvement. It has a lot of variation with respect to growth and...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicon Mill.) is an important vegetable crop belongs to family solanaceae. It is well known and very popular vegetable among farmers and grown successfully throughout the world. It is used as vegetable and ripe fruits are also utilized into salad, soups, pickles, sauce, ketchups etc. Yield of tomato crop is primarily governed by the genetic makeup of the variety. Thus, full genetic potential of the variety can be utilized through recommended cultural practices. To develop the variety, existence of significant heritable variability is of prime importance. Some biometric...

An experiment was conducted to assess the effect of sulphur levels and sowing methods on mustard. The twelve treatment combination comprising four sulphur levels viz.0, 20, 40, 60 kg/ha and three sowing methods viz. broad casting, line sowing, and border method were arranged in randomized block design with three replication. The observation was recorded in growth, yield and yield contributing characters. Addition of sulphur enhanced the growth, yield and yield contributing characters with each additional dose of sulphur, however application of 60 kg S/ha encouraged the yield of mustard...

Marigold (Tagetes erecta Linn)is an important commercial flower of India belonging to family Compositae. It is very popular due to easy to grow and wider adaptability. Flowers are sold in the market as loose or for making garlands. Flowers are traditionally used as offering in temples, churches and are used in festivals, beautification and landscape.Closer planting of marigold increased number of plants but produces poor quality flowers and wider spacing decreases number of plants and flowers which are not economical, therefore, appropriate planting geometry is needed. Pinching is an...

The book "Evaluation of different insecticides against E. vittella on okra crop" contain a details account of E. vittella control. The experiment was conducted to determine the efficacy of insecticides against shoot and fruit borer E. vittella (Fabricius)on okra variety Arka Anamika.Various insecticides were tested for the control of E. vittella in kharif season okra crop. Generally the wide spectrum insecticides also lead the pest resurgence and causes secondary pest out break. However, some entomologist have found that the use of navel insecticides, bio pesticides and Neem based...

The present book expedites the concept of Non- additive entropies especially Kapurs and Tsallis entropies in communication systems. It acquaints the readers not only with the related mathematical modeling but also discuss their basic properties applicable to large domain in communication systems. Moreover, book provides deeper insight of the concepts like composability, stability and time-frequency representation of non-additive entropies. In the present era, the interdisciplinary approach towards the concepts is increasing and integrated so as to boost research. Therefore, the present...