Considering the constraints due to unavailability of uniform quality chicken manure in local market, three different combinations of wheat and soyabean meal (de-oiled cake) were tested for their ability to affect yield and cost of production of Button Mushroom (Agaricus bisporus). Compost was prepared by mixing 18, 22 and 25% soyabean meal with wheat straw by short method of composting. 80% chi...

Replenishing nutrients through organic sources is essential to maintain the soil health and sustainability in Eastern Himalayan Region, India which is organic by default. Keeping this in mind an experiment was laid out on randomized block design with six treatments viz., T1: Vermicompost (VC; 2.5 Mg ha-1), T2: Poultry manure (PM; 1.25 Mg ha-1), T3: Swine manure (SM; 3.0 Mg ha-1), T4: Cow du...

The present work was conducted to elucidate the effect of different soil mediums in various ratios on seed germination efficiency and growth of seedling of Simmondsia chinensis under in vivo conditions. The highest germination (94%) was recorded for seeds cultivated in S1 medium containing desert soil and Farm Yard Manure (FYM) (2:1) followed by S4 medium (90%) having desert soil, clay, FYM (1:...

An efficient protocol has been developed for regeneration of complete plants through somatic embryogenesis in H. coronarium. Creamish white, pale yellow and brown calli were obtained on MS medium supplemented with different concentrations of auxins [2, 4-Dichlorophenoxy acetic acid (2, 4-D), Indole-3 acetic acid (IAA) and 1-Naphthylacetic acid (NAA)] after 4 weeks. Creamy white calli developed ...

Organic source of nutrient has effect on soil physico-chemical properties, growth and yield cabbage. To determine the organic nutrients physio-chemical cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata). Field experiment was conducted acidic sandy loam Horticulture farm at Agriculture Forestry University (AFU), Rampur, Chitwan, from 5th December 2020 to 26th March 2021.The laid out in Randomized Complet...

Zea mays (maize) and Vigna radiata (green gram) are found to be the chromium (Cr) tolerant and sensitive plants, respectively. In the present paper, we investigate the reduction of the toxicity of Cr in the sensitive plants by the mixed crop cultivation in the field using various amendments. Further, the potassium dichromate was used as the source of hexavalent Cr. The results indicated that Cr...

Despite evaluation of large number of agroindustrial wastes for their use as casing material for Agaricus bisporus (Lange) Imbach cultivation, scant attention has been given to the importance of biological properties of casing materials. In the present study, an attempt was made to characterize the bacterial flora in casing layer, namely, Farm Yard Manure (FYM) and Spent Mushroom Substrate/spen...

filed experiment was conducted to study the effect of manure and various combinations of foxtail millet and mungbean intercropping on the grain yield, weed performance,and the nutrients concentration in millet. the experimental design was a split plot with three replications. main plots were differentmanure rates (0, 15 and 30 t ha-1) and the subplots comprised five combinations of intercroppin...