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Volume : 1, Article : 11
e-NAM: Linking farmers to digital market amid Covid-19 pandemic
Author : Divyata Joshi and Anjali Chunera

ABSTRACT Agricultural marketing has always been a major challenge for the farmers in the country due to market fragmentation, multi-level charges and multiple stakeholders. To overcome these barriers from trade e-NAM was launched by governm...

Volume : 1, Article : 12
Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of Fresh Tea Leaf (Camellia sinensis) production in Assam: A Statistical Approach
Author : Abhijit Das, R.R. Mishra

ABSTRACTThe present study aims at estimating compound annual growth rate of tea in the state of Assam and Sonitpur district of Assam. The study was based on secondary data, which were collected from various published and unpublished sources...

Volume : 1, Article : 13
Azolla: a potential protein rich livestock feed for building sustainable livelihoods
Author : Kailash Chandra Samal, Laxmipreeya Behera and Jyoti Prakash Sahoo

ABSTRACTAzolla is a rapidly growing free-floating freshwater fern that fixes atmospheric nitrogen by establishing a symbiotic association with a prokaryotic cyanobacterium, Anabaena azollae. For lowland rice fields, it is a cost-effective, ...

Volume : 1, Article : 14
Reconsideration of eating time of citrus and fibrous fruits to assure maximum health benefits by proper nutrition: Empirical vs. Theoretical
Author : Swapan Banerjee

ABSTRACTFruits are one of nature`s wonderful creation that provides various taste, textures, flavors, and at last, total satisfaction. In this study, ten citrus and fibrous fruits were considered divided into two groups (total 20), consider...

Volume : 1, Article : 15
Non Photochemical quenching: A protective mechanism against Photodamage in Plants
Author : Shashi Meena, Sheel Yadav, Archana Watts & Mukesh Kumar Meena

ABSTRACT Photosynthesis is the process through which plants convert light energy into chemical energy and support all life activities on earth. The intensity and quality of sunlight in the natural environment can vary throughout the day. Th...

Volume : 1, Article : 16
Microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates from food and agricultural wastes: A biodegradable candidate for coating paper-based packaging
Author : Sreelakshmi K.R., Murugadas. V, Remya S., Rehana Raj and Mohan C.O.

ABSTRACT The use of petroleum based plastics for coating poses the threat of non-biodegradability to the paper based packaging materials which are otherwise fully biodegradable. The microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) which are biodegrada...

Volume : 1, Article : 1
Agricultural News Updates December 2020
Author : Aiswarya S, Bhagirath Das, Poulami Ray, Sougata Bhattacharjee

·         World Fisheries Day was celebrated on 21 November by Department of Fisheries: The Department of Fisheries in the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying celebrated World ...

Volume : 1, Article : 2
Marker assisted selection and Genome editing: Potent tools for bio-fortification in Vegetable crops
Author : Shubham Singh, Shatrunjay Yadav, Abhilash Singh, Ramavath Ramesh Babu

ABSTRACT Horticultural crops, including fruit, vegetables are having rich sources of mineral, nutritional and important vitamins constitute important part in our daily diets. The burgeoning human populations, insufficient food, and lack of...

Volume : 1, Article : 3
Genetics for improvement of drought tolerance in Rice
Author : Kailash Chandra Samal, Jyoti Prakash Sahoo and Ambika Prasad Mishra

ABSTRACT For rice cultivation, a significant quantitative characteristic is drought tolerance. Different types of environmental stress such as radiance, temperature, nutrient scarcity and nutrient toxicity render it very difficult to breed...

Volume : 1, Article : 4
Yellow flesh Watermelons: natural mutation or GMO?
Author : Apurba Pal, Shweta Singh and Kabita Mondal

ABSTRACT Yellow flesh watermelon a newly introduced cash crop gaining a high level of economic importance in the generation of income as the exterior doesn’t look any different than red variety of watermelon. But these are the hybr...