An attempt was made to determine the overall farm-specific technical efficiency or inefficiency of onion farms of Bangladesh. Farm-level data were used for the estimation of the parameters of Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function. The model for technical inefficiency effects in the stochastic frontier included age, experience, education, and farm size. The elasticity of output wi...

abstract assessing moisture in the soil under cultivation of crops to achieve high performance and reduced water are necessary. knowledge of the moisture distribution in the root zone, time consuming and costly field tests that simulation models, a suitable alternative in answer to issues of movement and are water distribution. in this study assessment of soil moisture, to aid swap simulation m...

An experiment was conducted to study the effect of sulphur application on growth, yield and quality of onion at Horticulture Farm of Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Sriniketan. The treatments consisted of six incremental doses of sulphur application (10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 kg ha-1) and no sulphur application (control, 0 kg S ha-1). Treatments were arranged in Randomized Block Design...

this experiment was conducted to study the effect of transplanting date of onion set and transplant on earliness of onionpopulationsin khuzestan province at behbahan agriculture research station in khuzestan province and farm of baghe-e- malek region within one year (2013-14). experiment was performed in split factorial based on rcbd with three replications. main plot consisted of propagule typ...

Background and Objectives: Onion (Allium cepa L.) possesses aromas and flavours, which have made them one of important ingredients of food. In addition, recent publications have reported that onion and its extract have many biological properties such as antimicrobial and antioxidant. Yellow and White Sweet Spanish onions belonging to Amaryllidaceae, are cultivated all over Iran as a condiment, ...

Onion thrips (Thrips tabaci (Lindeman) is the most serious insect pest causing damage to crop. This study aimed evaluate effects of some botanical oils including cotton, castor bean and bitter cucumber on infesting onion. Field experiments were conducted at Gezira state during two winter seasons (2015/16-2016/17). Two in first season (2015/16) experimental farm University Research Station Farm ...

This study was undertaken to evaluate natural mulches for weed control in organic onion (Allium cepa) production where current practices rely on hand-weeding or plastic mulch. Three experiments were conducted over 2 years, with two experiments conducted on-farm in different years and one experiment conducted on-station. Treatments consisted of hand-weeding or mulches of wheat (Triticum aestivum...

A field experiment was conducted at the `Research Farm` of Regional Seed Production Office of Lal Teer Seed Limited, Dinajpur, Bangladesh during November 2008 to April 2009. The study was conducted to investigate the effect of bulb size and planting spacing on seed production of cultivar Taherpuri onion. Three bulb sizes [small (5±2g), medium (10±2g), and large (15±2g)] and four planting spacin...

Onion plays a crucial role in enhancing food security and generates income for the smallholder farmers of Ethiopia. This paper was attempted to analyze determinants onion supplied market Gemechis District, Oromia Region Data study were collected from both primary secondary sources. The data by household survey using pre-tested structured questionnaire key informant interview checklists. 176 far...