Jitendra Singh

Background: Acid lime being the nutrient exhaustive fruit crop and requires regular annual application of macro and micronutrients and there was a need to study the response of foliar application of Urea and Nano urea as a source of nitrogen to assess its impact on Kagzi lime trees. The reason to undertake this research was based on response of fol...

An experiment was conducted to determine the contribution of Azospirillum brasilense and vermicompost to improving plant growth characteristics, yield variables, physical characteristics and maintaining sustainable agriculture in custard apple cultivar “Balanagar” during 2018–19 and 2019–20 at the Fruit Instructional Farm, Department of Fruit Scien...

This study attempted the efficacy of various Urea and Nano urea treatments on Kagzi lime fruit characteristics, such as weight, length, breadth of juice recovery, total soluble solids (TSS), acidity, TSS/Acidity ratio ascorbic acid content, and pH value of juices. There were some significant differences in the reaction of Kagzi lime to these treatm...

A field experiment was conducted from June, 2022 to March, 2023 at the Instructional Farm, Department of Fruit Science and Department of Natural Resources Management (NRM), College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalrapatan, Jhalawar in the newly established orchard of jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus L.) cv. Chandra. The experiment consisted of...

Field experiments were conducted for two successive seasons July 2018 to November 2018 and July 2019 to November 2019 at the Fruit Instructional Farm, Department of Fruit Science, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar district under Rajasthan state of India. The experiment consisted of different treatments of Azospirillum brasilense (AZS)...

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The present investigation entitled "Effect of foliar spray of zinc and iron on leaf nutrients status of zinc and iron and quality parameters of guava (Psidium guajava L.) cv. Sardar" was carried out at instructional Farm, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar-326023 (AU, Kota) during 2018-19. The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block...

A field experiment on "Effect of microbial consortia on growth and development of Jamun (Syzygium cumini L.) cv. Goma Priyanka" was conducted during the year 2019-20, at the Instructional Farm, Department of Fruit Science, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar. The experiment consisted of 10 treatments laid out in Randomized Block Design w...

Jhalawar is known as mini-Nagpur of Rajasthan in respect to mandarin cultivation and production. Mandarin is the mainstay of farming in this region. It covers 12000 hectares area in the district and the production is of the order of 3.0 lac tonnes. In the district 0.43-92.33 % orchards were found under custody of citrus decline. On an average 17.42...

A field experiment was conducted at Fruit Instructional Farm of College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar during June 2019 to December 2019 to study the effect of foliar spray of zinc and iron on yield attributes of guava cv. L-49. The experiment comprising 16 different treatments of ZnSO4 and FeSO4 was laid out in Randomized Block Design with...

Correlation studies were determined among growth, development and soil parameter of Jamun plants in response to use of different treatment combinations of Vermicompost and PSB during June to December 2019 at Instructional Farm, Department of Fruit Science at College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar. The growth and development attributes viz....

Correlation studies among yield and quality of guava fruit to zinc and iron status of leaf. The yield and quality attributes viz. number of fruits per plant, fruit length, fruit diameter, fruit weight, fruit volume, estimated yield per plant, estimated yield q/ha., total soluble solids, total sugars, reducing sugars, non-reducing sugars, seed cavit...

Correlation studies were determined during active growth phase to study the effect of different treatment combinations of Vermicompost and PSB during June to December 2019 with growth, development and soil parameters of Jamun cv. Goma Priyanka plants under vertisols at Instructional Farm, Department of Fruit Science at College of Horticulture and F...

An experiment was conducted to performance of different genotypes for growth and production of capegoosberry (Physalis peruviana L.) in the department of Fruit Science, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalarapatan, Jhalawar during 2017-18. The experiment was laid out in Factorial Randomized Block Design with five genotypes as treatments repli...

The experiment was conducted from September 2017 to February 2018 at Plant Tissue Culture Laboratory, Department of Fruit science, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalrapatan City, Jhalawar to examine the effect of different combinations of plant growth regulators for in-vitro propagation of strawberry. The nodal segments were cultured on MS...

A field experiment entitled "Studies on consortium of Azospirillum brasilense and Vermicompost application on plant growth attributes, soil physico-chemical characteristics and microbial population in Custard apple cv. Raydurg" were conducted for two successive seasons (of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar district under Rajasthan state of India....

A field experiment was conducted to study the effect of different levels of potassium and zinc on growth, yield and economics of sweet potato. The experiment was laid out on clay and loam soil by adopting randomized block design with factorial technique (FRBD). The sixteen treatments consisted of combination of four levels of po-tassium (0, 80, 100...

A field experiment using different kinds of mulch materials viz. No mulch (M 0), Rice husk (M 1), White polythene (M 2) and Black polythene (M 3) was conducted on medium to deep black soil at Jhalawar Rajasthan to observe their effect on the soil physicochemical changes and on growth, production and quality of strawberry. Highest increase in soil t...

Root-zone temperature (RZT) plays important role in improving plant growth and development of strawberry (Fragaria×ananassa Duch) by influencing the uptake of water and mineral nutrients by roots. RZT attains greater prominence as roots are less adapted to fluctuations in temperature than shoots. The North-Indian plains are characterized by clear d...

The world over there is heavy reliance on three crops-rice, wheat and maize to fulfill dietary energy requirement of the mankind. There are many other crops of promise which can be utilized to share the dominating reliance on these crops. Jackfruit. is one of them. lts ripe fruits contain 22.4-24 per cent carbohydrates and are rich source of it. T...

A definite increasing trend for carboxylation efficiency of Jamun plants was observed from March to October months followed by a reduction in photosynthetic rates during November and December months. Stomatal conductance and relative humidity percentage of Jamun leaves were low before monsoon months followed by a sharp increase from July to Septemb...

A definite increasing trend for carboxylation efficiency of Jamun plants was observed from March to October months followed by a reduction in photosynthetic rates during November and December months. Stomatal conductance and relative humidity percentage of Jamun leaves were low before monsoon months followed by a sharp increase from July to Septemb...

In order to raise stocks to be used as rootstocks, an in-vitro study was undertakent during the year 2011–12 at the Tissue Culture Laboratory and at the Department of Fruit Science, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhal rapatan city, Jhalawar (Rajasthan). From the findings of the experiment, it appeared that seeds of Carrizo, Rangpur lime and...

An experiment entitled ‘Effect of mulches on growth, production and quality of strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.) cv. Winter Dawn under different growing environments’ was conducted at College of Horticulture and Forestry, Jhalawar, Rajasthan. The experiment consisted of sixteen treatments comprising three mulch materials [Rice husk (M1), White...

It may be inferred that during early bearing phase of Nagpur mandarin, the major contribution of vegetative growth was from spring and rainy season flushes. In the early bearing phase of Nagpur mandarin, the extent of seasonal vegetative growth was maximum in spring flush (45.03%) followed by rainy season flush (42.02%), however, the winter fall fl...

study was carried out to investigate the effect of silver nitrate (SN) and silver thiosulphate (STS) concentration, number of sprays and method of applications on induction of staminate flower in gynoecious cucumber cv. ‘Infinity’. Higher dose (400 ppm) of AgNO3 and lower dose (2mM) of STS was found better. Further, twice application over once was...

The objective of this study was to analyze the rainfall variability and trend, and examine vulnerability of fruits production to rainfall variability in Jhalawar district of Rajasthan. A time series data were used to carry out a comprehensive study of the effect of rainfall variability on fruit crops. It was observed that inter-annual and seasonal...

The investigation was carried out to study the dynamic relationship between rainfall and fruits production in Jhalawar district (Rajasthan). From the analysis of time series data for the period of 10 year (2001-2010), it observed that inter-annual and seasonal variability of rainfall was a major cause of fluctuations in production of fruits in the...

The variations in shape (round and cordate), fruit colour (yellowish green, light green, pale green), pulp colour (pale white, creamy white) and areole shape (rounded, rounded and fused, mummiform) of custard apple fruits were observed. The areoles were prominent and the rind was leathery in the landraces collected from Dara and Baran sites. The ar...

The daily rainfall data of 39 years (1973-2011) were analyzed to determine the annual one day maximum rainfall of Jhalarapatan area of Rajasthan. The observed values were estimated by Weibull’s plotting position and expected values were estimated by four well known probability distribution functions viz., normal, log-normal, log-Pearson type-III an...

College of Horticulture and Forestry (MPUAT), Jhalarapatan, Jholowar-326 023 (Rojasthan). *troduction Deepening water crisis has been a matter of great :: -::rn across the globe. Agriculture sector being the :"=:st consumer of water (Yadav et ol., 2007) offers ,i"=a: scope for managing water effectively. Micro-'-;ation system has proven its worth i...

A study was undertaken on growth performance of Nagpur mandarin scion on different rootstocks. Maximum budding success (68.31%), maximum length of scion (17.97 cm), maximum plant height (34.584 cm), maximum leaf area (19.958 cm(2)), relative water content in leaves (51.744%) and chlorophyll content (0.194 mg/g) were observed in scion budded on roug...

Studies of variation in plant environmental factors of Kinnow mandarin for at Agriculture Research Station, SriGanganagar district of Rajasthan state in India during 2002-04 with respect to three differential irrigation treatments revealed that overall maximum carboxylation efficiency (A) was estimated at 70% Etc treatment from April to June with a...

Variations were recorded in growth and yield performances of trees as well as annual crops grown in combination under tree-crop farming. Plant growth and yield of all component crops were higher when grown under conjugation as compared to their sole croppings. Under integrated model, there was 50-53% increase in yield (84.60 to 86.52 q/ha) of ber o...

The leaf extract of Aonla and Ber showed allelopathc influence over the test crops- Cluster Bean, Moth Bean, Brinjal and Mustard. Cluster Bean and Moth Bean showed significant reduction in germination and seedling growth characters treated with aqueous leaf extract of Karonda. While Brinjal and Mustard recorded a significant increase in these chara...

Significant differences were recorded in yield levels of tree fruits as well as annual crop components that obtained under integrated cropping models when compared with their sole cropping. The growth and yield in tree fruits were more under the integrated cropping models of Aonla + Ber + Karonda + Cluster Bean + Brinjal and Aonla + Ber + Karonda +...