Tamarind (Tamarindus indica L.) is most important multipurpose tropical fruit crop. It is a large evergreen tree with beautiful spreading habit with dense foliage and cultivated throughout the India except Himalayan region and western dry regions. The main disadvantage of seed propagation is freshly harvested seeds of tamarind exhibit poor germination percentage even it exposed to favorable conditions of germination due to seed dormancy. It might be due to morphological factor such as hard, thick testa or due to improper storage and handling (secondary dormancy). To overcome this problem,...

Cotton (Gossypium spp. L) is one of the most important commercial cash crop and important fiber crop of global significance cultivated in more than seventy countries. It is an important raw material of economy in terms of both employment generation and foreign exchange and hence it is known as 'White gold' or 'friendly fiber and king of fiber'. The cotton plant belongs to the genus Gossypium of the family Malvaceae. In cotton, flowering is a continuous process. However, all the flowers produced are not retained and harvested. About 40 to 50 per cent of the flowers and bolls are shed due to...

Okra is a fast growing, erect, herbaceous annual and belongs to the family Malvaceae. Okra is an economically important vegetable crop grown in tropical and sub-tropical parts of world. The current global scenario firmly emphasizes the need to adopt ecofriendly agricultural practices for sustainable food production. The cost of inorganic fertilizers is increasing enormously to an extent that they are out of reach of small and marginal farmers. The use of organic liquid products such as beejamrit, jeevamrit and panchagavya results in higher growth, yield and quality of crops. The use of...

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is a widely cultivated plant, belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae and having a chromosome number, 2n =14. In botanical terms, the cucumber is classified as a pepo, a type of botanical berry with a hard outer rind and no internal divisions. PGR such as GA3, NAA and Ethrel include many aspects of plant growth, development and flowering and yield. They are organic substances when they are used in low concentration to change the plant growth usually by stimulating part of the natural growth regulatory system. Now a day farmers are using PGR on large scale in...

La commercialisation des chèvres est un secteur généralement négligé. La vente de chèvres implique des transactions de nature privée, qui se déroulent d'abord entre le commerçant et l'intermédiaire, puis entre l'intermédiaire et le grossiste, l'intermédiaire et le boucher et entre l'intermédiaire - grossiste et l'unité de transformation de la viande, etc. Dans ce processus de commercialisation, la part des premiers vendeurs dans la roupie des acheteurs varie de 52 à 99 pour cent. Cependant, pour les éleveurs pauvres, la chèvre est considérée comme un "compte d'épargne...