Sundaram Ravichandran

• Indian Council of Agricultural Research

The increasing threat to sustainable agriculture is a major concern of planners worldwide. Human population growth together with increasing food requirements and competition for land use is leading to land scarcity for agricultural purposes. Farm size influences the extent of the adoption of mechanization and modern methods of farm management pract...

Flavonoids are a major family of secondary metabolites, which are widely distributed in plants and are common constituents of human diet. Flavonoids have a number of biological activities, including antiviral, antibacterial, antiprotozoal and antifungal, etc. Flavonoids have been recognized as potential natural sources of antimicrobial drugs. Th...

COVID-19, a pandemic disease caused by the coronavirus originated from China has been ravaging the entire global nations due to which the entire global economy is in the doldrums. The disease has been there in the entire globe since November 2019 and is expected to damage human beings and the world economies for a long time. In this article, we dis...

Agriculture, the backbone of Indian economy, lot of time series data on various parameters and these time series data generated from agriculture can be effectively modelled using various time-series modelling techniques such as Box-Jenkins ARIMA modelling technique, State-Space modelling technique, Structural Time Series modelling methodology and v...

Agriculture, the lifeline of Indian economy, is highly dependent on the timely occurrence of monsoons, viz. SouthWest and North-East monsoons spread over nearly six months viz. June – December of the year. India receives 75% of rainfall during South-West monsoon in June to September and Indian agriculture is good during this time of the year. Stati...