Global consciousness of food safety, health and environmental issues has stimulated interest in alternative agricultural systems like organic farming. Since information on organic farming of tuber crops is meagre, a field experiment was conducted in split plot design over a five-year period at Central Tuber Crops Research Institute, India. The aims were to evaluate the impact of organic, c...

SOILS in the humid tropics are known for their low retention capacity of nutrients and high susceptibility to leaching (Van Wambeke, 1992). Nitrogen is particularly susceptible to leaching losses since mineralization and nitrification both proceed very rapidly under humid tropical conditions and because nitrate is very mobile in most soils. In central Amazonian Oxisols, a large accumulation of ...

The present study was designed and conducted to fi nd the appropriate physical baseline values for hepatobiliary enzymes such as, alanine aminotransferases (ALT), aspartate aminotransferases (AST), alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and gamma glutamyltransferases (GGT) in adult healthy Murrah buffaloes in hot humid climatic conditions and also to assess the ideal storage condition for buffalo sera samp...