Weed is one of the major problems in maize production. To develop an appropriate weed management practice, a field experiment was carried out during 2017 and 2018 at Khumaltar. Twelve different treatments, Pendimethalin as pre @ 1.0 kg a.i ha-1, Atrazine 1 Metribuzine 0.5 Tembotrione post 0.2 followed by (fb) HW, fb + (early ) tank mixed, Straw mulch, free (2 HW) Weedy check (control) were eval...

Rapid and non-destructive diagnostic tools to accurately assess crop nitrogen nutrition index (NNI) are imperative for improving crop nitrogen (N) diagnosis and sustaining crop production. This study was aimed to develop the relationships among NNI, leaf N gradient, chlorophyll meter (CM) readings gradient, and positional differences chlorophyll meter index [PDCMI, the ratio of CM readings betw...

Continuous cultivation of rice–wheat cropping system (RWCS) in Indo-Gangetic Plains India is showing declining factor productivity coupled with many environmental problems. Diversifying the RWCS one friendly options for sustaining food production. Four crop rotations involving maize and sorghum summer, wheat/potato/mustard winter followed by short duration mung bean late spring were studied to ...

In the first side-by-side large-scale trials of these two C(4) crops in the U.S. Corn Belt, Miscanthus (Miscanthus x giganteus) was 59% more productive than grain maize (Zea mays). Total productivity is the product of the total solar radiation incident per unit land area and the efficiencies of light interception (epsilon(i)) and its conversion into aboveground biomass (epsilon(ca)). Averaged o...

New Zealand dairy farmers are increasingly using supplementary feeds in an attempt to overcome the quantitative and nutritional limitations of pasture. The use of rolled maize grain and pasture silage supplements was evaluated on a farmlet basis for two seasons. Supplementary feeding resulted in 88 and 82 g milksolids (MS)/kg dry matter (DM) at stocking rates of 3.24 and 4.48 Friesian cows/ha r...

The warming of the climate and shrinking freshwater resources pose serious challenges to European agriculture. Meeting these demands a thorough knowledge major trends in soil moisture patterns across continent over time. Charting available water (ASW) content (m3 m-3) derived from ERA5 Land dataset grid cells 0.1° × 0.1°, highest values occurred Alpine, Baltic West Balkan countries, as well Nor...

Requirements for mitigation of the continued increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are much needed for the North China Plain (NCP). We conducted a meta-analysis of 76 published studies of 24 sites in the NCP to examine the effects of natural conditions and farming practices on GHG emissions in that region. We found that N2O was the main component of the area-scaled total GHG balance, and t...

Background: The key focus of crop diversification is the selection compatible crops for increasing biodiversity, efficient use resources and enhancing system productivity. Monocropped coconut gardens provide ample scope through inclusion several as intercrops. present study was conducted to assess feasibility intercropping maize, finger millet, black gram green in garden. Methods: Field experim...

The following method was used to apply the topology of current study evapotranspiration ETo, net irrigation demand, schedules, and total effective rain fall different crop models: using Food Agriculture Organization's (FAO) CROPWAT 8.0 standard software CLIMWAT 2.0 tool FAO-56 Penman-Monteith approach examine variable ETo. Due high temperatures in summer with an annual mean 6.33 mm/day, topolog...

Summer maize crop development, yield, and water use characteristics under deficit conditions at different growth stages were investigated in this study using irrigation regime treatments the seedling (S), jointing (J), tasseling (T), grain filling (F) 2018 2019 China. Ten set, including three-irrigation application intervals (JTFi, STFi, SJFi, SJTi), two-irrigation applications (STi, JTi, JFi),...