Shabir Ahmad Rather

Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir | SKUAST-K · The Faculty of Forestry

With the advent of civilization, open field/soil-based agriculture is facing some major challenges; most importantly decrease in per capita land availability. Soil is usually the most available growing medium for plants. It provides anchorage, nutrients, air, water, etc. for successful plant growth. However, soils do pose serious limitations for pl...

Man’s relationship with his environment is a complex one. Primitive man managed to live as part of the natural ecosystem without altering its major characteristics. But now, man has modified ecosystems by directing energy and materials from the system to serve his personnel needs without due considerations to the overall sustainability of the ecosy...

Man’s relationship with his environment is a complex one. Primitive man managed to live as part of the natural ecosystem without altering its major characteristics. But now, man has modified ecosystems by directing energy and materials from the system to serve his personnel needs without due considerations to the overall sustainability of the ecosy...

The present study was carried out during year 2015 and 2016 at ICAR-Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture (CITH), Srinagar, India with the objective of trait specific characterization of walnut accessions with specific emphasis on lateral bearing trait. The study was initiated on pre-selected indigenous accessions collected from various pocke...

Use of botanicals or herbal medicines implies substantial historical use, and this is certainly true for many products that are available as 'traditional botanicals or herbal medicines'. In many developing countries, a large proportion of the population relies on traditional practitioners and their armamentarium of medicinal plants in order to meet...

Apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) is an important fruit crop grown in India and has rich diversity in North Western Himalayan region. In apricot, major breeding concern is: 1) extension of ripening season either early or late because the most of commercial varieties ripen in a small window of early/mid season. 2) Late flowering to escape spring frost a...

The present study was conducted in Boundary plantation of District Budgam of Kashmir valley, with an aim to assess the composition, structure, and vegetation indices of life forms growing in the system. Results of the study revealed that floristic composition of the system consists of 4 genera, 3 species of 3 families of cultivated plants (herbage)...

The present investigation was conducted on a 22- year old Elm plantation established at Wadura campus of SKUAST-Kashmir. Four diameter classes viz., D1 (5-10cm), D2 (10-15cm), D3 (15-20cm) and D4 (>20cm) were stratified from the plantation and 24 trees (6 from each diameter class) were randomly selected and felled in the year 2015. The growth param...

The aim of this study was to determine average daily gain in physico-chemical characteristics, yield efficiency, Flesh thickness, Stone size, Pulp stone proportion and Leaf size of some apricot cultivars at commercial harvest. Correlation analysis was conducted to assess change in yield efficiency and flesh thickness with regard to leaf size. Beari...