Conventional and organic farming greatly differ in approach, preventive measures and agents used in the cultivation of plants, disease and pest control. One of the measures in the fight against weeds in organic farming is veiling the soil with various materials of organic and inorganic origin. In...

An experiment was conducted with sixty genotypes of fennel for phenotypic characterization of different vegetative characters such as plant height, branches per plant, primary branches per plant, secondary branches per plant, umbels per plant, umbellate per plant, seeds per umbellate, seeds per...

In Haryana condition, studies carried on cultivation of G. lucidum during 2013 and 2014, a combination of wheat straw+saw dust (1:1), having a 20% dosage of wheat bran as supplement and amended with calcium sulphate (3%) and calcium carbonate (1%), was filled in polypropylene bags, plugged,...

Fruit development involves the phenomena of cell division and cell elongation. The process is signalled and regulated by the combined action of hormonal substances such as gibberellins, cytokinins and auxins. Benzyladenine (BA) in the presence of adequate internal auxin concentrations is able to...

A new lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) variety 'Sunny Red Butter' that belongs to butter-head type has transverse broad elliptical leaf with red color. Crossbreeding of 'Oriana' and 'Cardinale' was made to obtain seeds of the F₁ generation. Subsequent generations were selected using in pedigree methods...

A low cost tractor drawn carrot bed loosening implement was developed to assist in carrot harvesting. It reduces human drudgery involved in carrot harvesting. The implement consisted of frame, carrot bed loosening unit and side thrust balancing unit. The bed loosening unit comprised a rectangular...

An experiment was conducted during 2013-14 at Research Farm of the Department of Vegetable Science, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar to study the effect of different times of harvesting on yield contributing characters of garlic (Allium sativum L.). The experiment was laid out in...

The present investigation was conducted during kharif 2010 at three locations viz., Vegetable Experimental Farm, SKUAST-K, Shalimar; KVK, Malangpora and RRS & FOA, Wadura. The basic materials consisted of 10 genotypes of sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) viz., SP-4, SP-21, SP-29, SP-31, SP-32,...

An experiment was conducted during the year 2013-14 at Urban Technology Park, Division of Vegetable Science, Habbak, Srinagar. The carrot stecklings were graded into four classes with respect to their weights. Each of the four grades of stecklings was transplanted at four different spacings....

Postharvest fresh-keeping of fruits is one of the important issues in the policy of "countryside, agriculture and farmers". The application of chitosan (CTS) in the storage of fruits could avoid the damage of chemical fungicides residue to human health, reduce the physical preservation costs and...