The study is based on the production and marketing of small onion in coimbatore district. Data were collected by individual questionnaire method from 40 formers 14 middlemen Devarayapuram village, Thondamuthur taluk, Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu. Cobb- Douglas function was run to identify significance labour capital yield onion. identified that major problems farmers low level prices, credit...

Onion is cultivated worldwide for its bulbs, but production threatened by pathogens and pests. Three distinct diseases of onion are caused species that belong to the fungal genus Botrytis. Leaf blight a well-known foliar disease B. squamosa can cause serious yield losses. Neck rot postharvest manifests in bulbs after storage associated with three species: aclada, allii, byssoidea. The symptomle...

Onion (Allium cepa L.) is the most economically important monocot outside of the grasses and is a member of the family Alliaceae in the order Asparagales. The Asparagales are a monophyletic order sister to the Commelinanae, which carries the grasses, palms, and bananas. These two important groups of monocots separated at least 130 million years ago and show little synteny at the recombinational...

This study was designed to investigate the effects of dietary onion flesh or onion peel on lipid peroxides and DNA damage in aged rats. Sprague Dawley male rats (n=40, 16 mo old) were blocked into five groups and raised for 3 mo with either an onion-free control diet or onion diets (Allium cepa L., intermediate-day variety) containing either 5% (w/w) powdered dried onion flesh, 5% (w/w) powdere...

Rhizome rot caused by Pythium spp and Fusarium spp is one of the most devastating diseases of ginger in most of the ginger growing areas of the Nepal. Realizing the context for development of alternative control strategies to reduce dependency on synthetic fungicides, a field experiment on management of rhizome rot disease of ginger using eco-friendly natural products was conducted at GRP, Kapu...

A Field experiments were conducted for two years at Agricultural Research Station, Bhavanisagar of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India during kharif season of 2010 and 2011 to evaluate the new formulation of oxyfluorfen (23.5% EC) on weed control in onion and their residual effect on succeeding crops. Herbicides are being chemical in nature, excessive and repeated use may pose...

Onion bulb crop production using sets as planting material has been increasing for the last decade in response to high demand and because of their yielding capacity adaptability continuously changing growing environment. The objective this experiment, therefore, was investigate effect seed rate on yield quality onion setsas a highly demanded material. Treatments comprised two cultivars (Kamlin ...

Onion thrips, Thrips tabaci Lindeman (Thysanoptera: Thripidae), is a well-known onion pest worldwide. Onion thrips cause both direct and indirect damage to onion by feeding and ovipositing on leaves that may cause green onions (scallions) to be unmarketable and dry bulb onion size to be reduced. Onion thrips can also transmit several plant pathogens that reduce onion bulb size and quality. One ...