Efficient use of fertilizers is highly essential for sustainable agriculture, in the context of declining per capita availability of cultivable land, dwindling natural resources, increasing ecological disturbances and escalating cost of fertilizers. Compulsion of increasing productivity due to limited scope to bring new land under cultivation makes it obligatory to use fertilizers more efficiently. In the present context, there is a need to study the influence of surface fertigation involving the source, dosage and split application of fertilizers. The study also focuses on possible impact of...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous disease which is characterized by variable degrees of insulin resistance, impaired insulin secretion and increased glucose production. An association exists between diabetes and liver injury. Liver pathology among diabetics is similar to that of alcoholic liver disease, including steatosis, steato-hepatitis, fibrosis and cirrhosis. Elevated serum activity of the two aminotransferases, AST and ALT, is the most frequently measured indicator of liver disease and occurs in diabetics more frequently than in the general population. The cause effect...