Rice is a crop of primary importance in regions, where two-thirds of the world's starving
population reside. Recent climate change projections anticipate spatial shift in precipitation …

Anticipated water crisis, traditional rice cultivation having standing water for most of the
growth stages and mounting labour shortage necessitates the search for alternative water …

Shifting cultivation (jhum) and forest land are the main land uses in North Eastern region of
Indian Himalaya, but in the long term this form of agriculture is not acceptable due to the soil …

Monocrop**, low productivity, energy–use efficiency and net returns are some of the major
factors that contribute to unsustainable agriculture production system in the Eastern …

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) exhibit multifunctional mutualistic symbiosis with plants.
The beneficial effect of AMF has been exploited for most of the crop plants but its role in …

Rice blast, caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, is one of the most devastating
diseases of rice (Oryza sativa L.), causing tremendous yield loss worldwide. In the present …

In north eastern region, rice is grown in diverse agro-climatic conditions viz., upland, jhum,
terraces, lowland and deep water. The region is considered to be a hot spot for rice diversity …

We conducted a field experiment at the Crop Research Farm, SHIATS, Allahabad (UP)
during the kharif season of 2015 to evaluate the effect of customised leaf colour chart …

A field experiment was carried out during the wet seasons of 2012 and 2013 at Patna, Bihar,
to evaluate the performance of 7 promising rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotypes under 2 crop …

Field experiment was conducted at Agricultural Farm of the Regional Rainfed Lowland Rice
Research Institute, Gerua, Assam during early ahu (summer) season of 2015 and 2016 to …