Western zone of Tamil Nadu

A field experiment was conducted to study the response of conventional, nonconventional organic sources and industrial by-products in yield maximization of maize at the farmer’s field in Karapadi village, Sathyamangalam taluk, Erode district located in Western Zone of Tamil Nadu during April to June 2018.

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Integrated Farming System (IFS) for wetland situation experiments were conducted in Southern block of Agricultural Research Station, Bhavanisagar during 2013 to 2017 under All India Co-ordinated Project on Irrigation Water Management. The objective of the experiment was to work out the water requirements for cropping and livestock components in IFS under wetland situation.

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This study was conducted to evaluate the production performance of TANUVAS Aseel in Western Zones of Tamil Nadu. 150 Day old TANUVAS Aseel chicks were obtained from TANUVAS-CPPM, Hosur and distributed to farmers in different blocks of Erode district. Body weight and Egg production parameters were recorded in farmer’s field at weekly interval upto 72 weeks of time.

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A field experiment was conducted during kharif 2016 at R&D farm of Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd., Udumalpet with seven treatments comprising of two irrigation (100% and 150% ETc) and three fertigation levels (75%, 100% and 125% RDF) in addition, surface irrigation method as a check were arranged in randomized block design and replicated thrice. Rice was grown in sandy clay soil with pH and EC of 7.6 and 0.21 (dS m-1 ), respectively. A 115 day long variety ADT (R) 45 was used with spacing of 20x10cm. Fertilizers were applied @ 150:50:50 kg of N P2O5 K2O ha-1 .

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The study was conducted among certified organic farmers of Tamil Nadu. A sample size of 180 organic farmers was selected from the districts of Coimbatore, Erode and Tiruppur districts of Tamil Nadu. Data was collected through personnel interview method with help of semi structured interview schedule. Simple percentage analysis and simple ranking method are used for the study. Findings revealed that majority of the certified organic farmers faced constraints were inadequate availability of organic inputs in time (68.89 %), scarcity of irrigation water (64.

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The study revealed that majority (68.75%) of the farmers belonged to middle age group, had medium annual income (58.75%), belong to medium social cohesiveness(81.25%), had medium mass medium access (72.50%), had medium knowledge on climate change(83.75%). Having more percentage of respondents on medium and high level of fatalism as it was found in result hinted that there is need to develop competencies of farmers on consequences of climate change through the services of agricultural extensionists.

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In order to refine the fertiliser prescription equation for hybrid maize on an Inceptisol (Periyenackampalayam soil series- Vertic Ustropept), a field experiment was conducted at farmer’s holding of Allapalayam village, Annur block, Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu in Western Zone of Tamil Nadu during Rabi 2015-16. Basic parameters were calculated from the data generated from the field experiment.

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Mango is one of the most delicious fruit in India and also India is the largest producer of mango in the World. Moreover, Indians are fond of consuming mango fruits and juice especially during summer season. Since the mangoes are grown under various climate regions and its distribution also vary from tropical regions to sub-tropical regions. The marketing of mango fruits and its prices are fluctuating from high to low during the production season.

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Drought is a complex natural phenomenon and its impact on agriculture is enormous. The vegetation status was verified using MODIS satellite images through the Normalized Differential Vegetation Index (NDVI) for different agro-climatic zones (ACZ) over Tamil Nadu during the north-east monsoon season of 2015 (as extremely wet year), 2016 (as drought year) and 2017 (as normal year) for our analysis and it showed that satellite data was very effective for assessing the agricultural drought.

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Agriculture is the backbone of Indian nation. Climate and technology are the parents for agriculture. Agriculture in Tamil Nadu is unique in its character, with respect to climate. It has varied agro-climatic zones which favors for the growth of various types of crops in the country. On the other hand it also depends on technology. Hence the present study was planned to analyses the performances of selected crops with respect to the technology. For this study, Paddy crop from Cereals is purposively selected.

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