International Journal of Advances in Agricultural Science and Technology
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KSAN (KISAN SOIL ANALYSING NETWORK)
Get PDF The whole world is developing into a digitalizing world, whereas the uses of smart phones are rapidly increasing and mobile applications are created in many fields. As well as the field of agriculture is also developing in mobile application. In order to help the farmers in need of help, we have researched some information about mobile application and created an app based on soil analysis. Soil analysis is a major Problem of agriculture & farming, but their rapid identification remains difficult in many parts of the world due to the lack of the necessary infrastructure. The combination of increasing global smartphone penetration and recent advances in computer vision made possible by deep learning has paved the way for smartphone-assisted soil analyzing, Overall, the approach of training deep learning models on increasingly large and publicly available image datasets presents a clear path toward smartphone-assisted soil analyzing on a massive global scale
An Analytical Study of Relationship between Socio-Economic Profile and Impact of Minimum Support Price Scheme on Small Farmers of Begusarai District of Bihar
Get PDFMinimum Support Price fixed by the government to protect the farmers against excessive fall in price during bumper production years. Questions, are being raised about the efficacy and effectiveness of the instruments of price policy specifically the Minimum Support Prices. Under these circumstances it assumes greater significance to understand the impact caused by the minimum support prices on small farmers with socio-economic scale. Total of 60 beneficiaries and 60 non-beneficiaries was selected in Teghara block of Bihar district by purposive sampling method. The primary data were collected with the help of interview schedule and the responses were recorded, classified and tabulated and appropriate statistical tools were employed. The results showed that higher percentage of small farmers were middle aged, attained middle school level education and had low income, the beneficiaries who had primary school level education with high farm experience, present near to the market and contacted extension agents had been sought to have more impacted
Knowledge of Utilization of Citrus Fruit Peels after Consumption among Random Selected Population at Sonepat District in Haryana State
Get PDFCitrus is an important part of fruit family. It belonging to the family Rutaceae, which include fruits such as orange, mandarin, lime, lemon, sour orange and grapefruit, pomelo appear as a well known promising source of multiple beneficial nutrients for human beings. Processing of citrus by-products (peel, pulp, and seed) potentially represents a rich source of phenolic compounds and dietary fiber, by consumption of citrus fruit the large amount of peel waste produced. These citrus fruit residues, which are generally discarded as waste in the environment, they can act as potential nutraceutical resources. Such comprehensive Utilization of Citrus By-products provides comprehensive knowledge and information on the development and utilization of citrus by-products, including (types, preparation, and determination) of their main functional components. One of the most popular fruits in the world, from the point of processing is citrus fruits by which produces citrus peel, a primary by-product. Current statuses of citrus peel pollute the environment and waste resources so eco-friendly solutions are sought. This review systematically summarized the knowledge of utilization of citrus peel, which generally discarded as waste by consumer after consumption of fruit. 
IMPACT OF KVK IN DOUBLING FARMERS INCOME IN SITAPUR DISTRICT OF UTTAR PRADESH
Get PDF More than half of Indian population were engaged in agricultural sector but the available technology doesn’t ensure food security of the country. Hence, to diffuse new agricultural invention and innovation in the farming community, there arises a need for effective medium for transfer of technology. Thus, KVK bridges the gap between the technology generation and dissemination. The present study was proposed to understand the impact of KVK in doubling farmers income to formulate suitable programmes. For the study, descriptive research design was adopted. 120 respondents from Biswan taluk of Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh were selected as respondents. Primary data collected from respondents and secondary data from available literatures. The findings revealed that majority of the respondents were middle aged, illiterate, upto 5 members in their family, medium level of annual income, possesses their own land, agriculture as their main occupation, medium level of mass media exposure, office bearer in one organization, high level of extension contact. Meanwhile, more than half of the respondents had reported medium level of impact towards the activities carried out by KVK, beneficiary selection is not unbiased is a major constraint suggested that maximum emphasis should be given on learning by doing. 
Evaluation of Matured Larval Weight and Larval Duration of New Breeding Lines of Bombyx mori L
Get PDFWe planned to conduct this study with the main aim to develop bivoltine breeds for our tropical climatic conditions by using silkworm breeds with known genetic backgrounds (KA, NB18 and PM) in various hybrid combinations and incorporating them over generations, followed by backcrossing and adequate selection of different generations with the objective of profitability and productivity. The isolated Bivoltin lines (R1 and R2) were reared with their parental races at different times of the year to evaluate their stability in the expression of commercial traits. For the present breeding program, the purebred Bivoltine Kalimpong-A (KA), which spin white oval cocoons, New Bivoltine18 (NB18) white cocoons with rotating dumbbells and Multivoltine Pure Mysore (PM), the yellow pointed cocoons of the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori L., Selected. One-way and three-way crosses were made using the above three breeds. The first single cross comprised KA females and PM males. The second unique cross comprised NB18 females and PM males. Selection was performed at the egg, larva, pupal, and cocoon stages over the course to determine the desired traits. The offspring of F from the respective crosses were backcrossed with their respective bivoltine males to improve commercial traits. Heterosis in the F1 generations of crosses, including NB18 and PM, was determined by the mean score of the parents (MPV) and the best score of the parents (BPV). A significant test for heterosis was performed using a standard ANOVA table. Based on the results of our study, it was found that the performance of the characters, viz. The weight of mature larvae and the duration of the larvae over generations do not simply increase or decrease regularly, but fluctuate irregularly. The reason for this variation may be due to random genetic drift, sampling errors in estimating generational means, selection pressures, and environmental factors. Therefore, inbreeding variations due to random drift and sampling errors could be reduced by increasing the number sampled and selected
ADOPTION BEHAVIOUR OF BRINJAL GROWERS TOWARDS INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN EAST GODAVARI DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
Get PDFThe present study was conducted in Korukonda and Ramchandrapuram division having prominent area under brinjal in East Godavari district by selecting 4 villages from each mandal for study. Total 72 brinjal growers were selected. The study revealed that personal and socio economic characteristics of the respondents education, , land holding , extension participation , area under brinjal , extension contact and mass media exposure were positively and significantly correlated with their level of adoption of IPM practices. The variable age, family type, annual income and occupation had negative and significant correlation with the adoption level. Availability of biopesticides, pheromone traps and light traps at reasonable price and at local places were the important suggestions made by brinjal growers. The other suggestions were insect organization of demonstration campaign for proper guidance on IPM practices and for identifying insect pest from state department of agriculture and state agricultural universities.  
Impact of KVK Trainings on Economic Condition of Vegetable Growers in Prayagraj District of Uttar Pradesh
Get PDFThe present investigation was conducted in chaka, jasra, and kaundhiara blocks of Prayagraj district, Uttar Pradesh. One hundred twenty respondents were selected randomly from 10 villages which were selected from the data given by KVK staff of naini, prayagraj. Respondents were taken as trainees and non-trainees to compare the economic condition between them. Where non trainees were selected from 5 of the 10 villages for appropriate results. The primary data were gathered by the researcher itself through pre-structured interview schedule. Appropriate statistical tools were used to interpret the collected data to draw logical conclusion. The finding inferred that majority of trainees have shown medium and high level of economical status, whereas non trainees have shown low level of economical status when annual income, physical assets, land holding were taken as a parameters to compare.  
TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE OF FARMERS ON MEDICINAL PLANTS AND ITS ADOPTION IN MAMIT DISTRICT OF MIZORAM
Get PDF Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesise hundreds of chemical compounds for functions including defence against insects, fungi, diseases, and herbivorous mammals. Traditional healers have used several plants to treat various diseases over the years and use of many of these plants as medicine is described in Ayurvedic texts. Many diseases including cancer, leprosy, syphilis, all types of fever, children’s abdominal disorders, elephantiasis and hydrocele have been treated using botanical sources. The plants synthesize several non-nutritive phytochemicals for different purposes and these have been reported to be beneficial as they possess various medicinal activities in humans. These phytochemicals are primary or secondary metabolites with varying biological activities and they are usually the main active principles present in plants. It has been estimated that in developed countries such as United States, plant drug constitute as much as 25% of the total drugs, while in fast developing countries such as India and China the contribution is as much as 80%. Thus, the economic importance of medicinal plants is much more to India than to the rest of the world. These countries provide two third of the plants used in modern system of medicine and the health care system of rural population depend on the indigenous system of medicine. Hence the present study was undertake in order to find out the adoption level of the medicinal farmers towards improved variety and technology with respect to socio-economic profile of the farmers of Mamit block of Mamit District, Mizoram. The Study revealed that most of the respondents (43.33%) per cent have medium adoption level followed by 28.34 per cent of respondents belonged to low Adopted category whereas 28.33 per cent fell in high adopted category
A Study on Identification of Indigenous Technology Knowledge (ITK) and its Utilization in Contemporary Modern Agriculture at Shajapur District of Madhya Pradesh
Get PDFThe ITK is an explicit or “codified” knowledge that is transmittable in formal, systematic language. On the other hand, ITK is a tacit knowledge of the local or indigenous people, which is personal, content-specific and therefore hard to formalize and communicate. Local or indigenous people acquire knowledge by actively creating and organizing their own experiences. Indigenous knowledge functions within the given socio-economic and spatial boundaries of the society and plays an active part in the culture of the population concerned, being preserved, communicated, and used by its members to serve some purpose in relation to productive activity within the society. Therefore, “A Study on Identification of Indigenous Technology Knowledge (ITK) and its Utilization in Contemporary Modern Agriculture at Shajapur District of Madhya Pradesh” with specific objective. The sample of the present study was selected by proportionate random sampling method 120 ITK users were selected randomly for this study through the KVK Shajapur, M.P. The finding regarding adoption behavior of ITK users in contemporary modern agriculture: the highest adoption observed in case of horticulture crop (mean score 2.20), followed by Sorghum (mean score 2.10), oil seed crops (mean score 2.06), soybean (mean score 1.99), maize (mean score 1.97), groundnut (mean score 1.95), wheat (mean score 1.92), weather forecasting (mean score 1.91), and pulses crops (mean score1.87)
A Study on Job Performance of Anganwadi Workers under ICDS Scheme in Sehore District of Madhya Pradesh
Get PDFUnder ICDS various jobs are assigned to Anganwadi workers which include coordination with block and district health care establishments to avail medical schemes and to help pregnant/lactating women and infants for nutrition supplements. Anganwadi workers also focus to ascertain immunization and health check-ups for women and children. They organize supplementary nutrition for feeding infants and keep a record of expecting mother’s childbirths and diseases/infections of any kind. They work proactively to spread awareness of health schemes run by government and inform supervisors for village’s health progression, or issues needing attention and intervention. Keeping in view the job performance of Anganwadi workers was studied by taking 120 Anganwadi workers of Sehore district. The main finding is that most of the Anganwadi workers (40.00%) had moderate job performance, 34.17% of workers had low job performance whereas, only 25.33% Anganwadi workers had high job performance