Mathura Yadav

Nepal Agricultural Research Council | NARC · Department of Agronomy

Results indicated that variety NIDW 295 and UAS 415 registered higher NPK uptake at 160 kg n/ha. However, fertilizer use efficiencies - agronomic, physiological and recovery efficiency, tended to decrease with increase in N levels.

Application of each higher level of N significantly improved the growth and yield traits over its lower level up to 160 kg N/ha. Application of 200 kg N/ha did not prove to be beneficial. All the growth and yield traits (independent variables) showed a positive and linear relationship with grain yield except for 50% to flowering suggesting the rein...

Rice crop endures several biotic stresses among which sheath blight is one of the devastating diseases. This disease is caused by necrotrophic fungus Rhizoctonia solani AG1 IA that reduces 20 to 40% yield. Forty two diverse rice genotypes were evaluated against sheath blight under artificial epiphytotic condition in the field of National Wheat Rese...

Agriculture is the main occupation in Nepal and around 60.4% Nepalese are actively engaged in the agricultural sector. Wheat is the third most important cereal crop after rice and maize in terms of area and production, in Nepal. Currently, less than 2 % area of the total wheat cultivation, is under zero – till wheat. Zero tillage (ZT) is a vital co...

Low and unbalanced fertilizer application rate are the major factors contributing to the poor yield of wheat in Nepal. The Site Specific Nutrient Management (SSNM) provides the field specific recommendations in a cost effective and precise manner. A field experiment was done at National Wheat Research Program (NWRP), Bhairahawa, Rupandehi, Nepal du...

Soil fertility in several parts of Nepal is declining mainly due to continuous cultivation and without replenishing soil nutrient removal by crops with quality fertilizers in required quantity. Nepal does not produce chemical fertilizers and most farmers cannot afford to buy the imported fertilizer. Under these circumstances, emphasizing locally av...

Weed dynamics and yield and yield parameters of wheat was studied in long-term soil fertility experiment under rice-rice-wheat system during winter season of 2018-19. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design with nine treatments replicated three times. Treatments were applied as: T1- no nutrients added, T2- N added; T3- N and...

Field experiments were conducted during rainy seasons of 2017 and 2018 at National Wheat Research Program (NWRP), Bhairahawa to identify the suitable age and appropriate dose of digestate/biogas slurry regarding yield maximization of rice (cv. Ram dhan). The experiment compared the effect of different age [5 days (fresh), 90 days (3 months) and 180...

Delineating tensiometer based irrigation scheduling in wheat to reduce irrigations is need of present time, for which an experiment was conducted at National Wheat Research Program, Nepal during 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. Trial was conducted with 3 levels of irrigation threshold (20, 35 and 50 kPa) and three depths of installed tensiometers (20, 35 a...

A field experiment was conducted in split plot design comprised of three sowing times allotted to main plot starting on 5th November, 25th November and 10th December and three wheat varieties Vijay, NL971 and BL4316 were to sub plot with three replications at National Wheat Research Program, Bhairahawa, Rupandehi, Nepal during 2015 and 2016 with ma...

Field experiments were conducted with an objective to prepare nitrogen response curves in rice for three establishment practices on the alkaline and silt loam soils of NWRP, Bhairahawa during 2012 and 2013. The experiment was laid down in split plot design; three establishment practices were designed (puddled transplanted, non-puddled transplanted...

Rice–wheat cropping system (RWCS) of the South Asia is labour-, water-, capital-and energy-intensive, and become less profitable as the availability of these resources diminished. This could be further aggravated with deterioration of soil structure, declining underground water and lesser land and water productivity which ultimately are threat in f...

Rice-wheat cropping system (RWCS) of the South Asia is labour-, water-, capital- and energy-intensive, and become less profitable as the availability of these resources diminished. This could be further aggravated with deterioration of soil structure, declining underground water and lesser land and water productivity which ultimately are threat in...

Rice–wheat cropping system (RWCS) of the South Asia is labour-, water-, capital- and energy-intensive, and become less profitable as the availability of these resources diminished. This could be further aggravated with deterioration of soil structure, declining underground water and lesser land and water productivity which ultimately are threat in...

A farmers’ field survey was conducted to identify the crop management practices in Rice-wheat based cropping system in western terai of Nepal in 2013. Sixty households from two districts, Kapilbastu (Pakadi) and Nawalparasi (Ramgram) were selected purposively by using simple random sampling techniques. A semi-structured interview schedule was used...