A field experiment with two sets, each comprising 13 chickpea genotypes with three replications was carried out during Rabi 2012-2013 in stress and non-stress conditions. The objective of the reported research was to study the response of chickpea genotypes in drought stress and to screen the appropriate genotypes performing better in water deficit and irrigated conditions. Three genotypes TG12...

in arid and semi arid, seedling emergence and establishment are key stages for final plant density in chickpea production. drought stress, especially at the end of the growing season, is one of the factors which decrease a main part of chickpea grain yield in these areas. therefore the aims of this study were assess to the effects of hydro priming and hormonal priming by gibberellin and abscisi...

Sugarcane is an important industrial crop in South China, mainly grown in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yuennan and Fujian Provinces. State farms are important cane producers. They produce about one-tenth of the nation’s total cane. These sugar companies are integrated enterprises including farm and milling activities but, due to declining sugar prices, they are not particularly profitable. Under the “Re...

The purpose of the study was to identify and document technical knowledge and information gaps that can inform development of appropriate training programs for cane farmers. The study employed a survey research design; involving 105 small scale farmers in selected from eight Sub-counties of Kakamega County. Data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Pearson’s product m...

Sucrose losses after cane harvest is one of the most important problems in sugarcane crop particularly for millers and farmers. Loss in sucrose after harvesting causes low sugar recovery in mills. There are a large number of factors associated with low sugar recovery such as varietal type, atmospheric conditions, time lag, etc. Sucrose losses occurring in postharvest sugarcane are generally of ...

The study aims to extend the range of resources from which ethanol may be made from sugar cane bagasse which is used primarily for preparation of pulp and paper. Seven fungal strains isolated from sediment and degraded wood of pulp and paper mill effluent in which one strain identified by 18S rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) as Cryptococcus albidus had higher decolourization and delignifi...

Field study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of formulated baits of 0.005% brodifacoum, 0.0375% coumatetralyl, 0.005% bromethalin and 2% zinc phosphide against field rats inhabiting sugarcane crop. The efficacy was calculated on the criterion of reduction in rodent activity, damaged canes and yield of harvested canes. After five applications of baits, the rodent activity reduced to 9...

Results from 30 trials were used to test the effect of moisture regime (rainfall and irrigation), level of nitrogen fertilizer or variety on the ripening response to glyphosate. The results showed that adequate moisture was required at the time of spraying and between spraying and harvesting to produce good ripening responses. At least five hours should elapse between spraying and heavy rainfal...

Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is routinely exposed to periodic floods and highwater tables in Florida’s EvergladesAgriculturalArea. Learning sugarcane responses to these conditions will help improve yields. This study evaluated the effects of constant water-table depths, periodic floods, and N on cane and sucrose yields of two sugarcane cultivars. In 2001 and 2002, two foliar N and four water trea...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the agronomic characteristics of sugarcane as a function of the no-tillage system (NTS) compared to the conventional one (CS) with, and without, manuring. The experimental design was completely randomized, using four repetitions, in a factorial scheme 4 x 2. The treatments were: sugarcane NTS on sunnhemp (Crotalaria juncea); sugarcane NTS on jack bean...