A majority of farmers regularly listened to the farm broadcast "Karshika Rangam" with full comprehension and selection of the programme as per the schedule. The retention, recall and influence of the broadcast on adoption ...

The heritability and inter-correlation study of Cowpea grown for seed purpose is reported. All characters examined were found to have high heritability. Selection index technique was found to be not efficient over ...

The detailed soil survey of Manalur Village representing the 'kole' area of Trichur district was carried out. Three soil series viz. Konchira, Perumpuzha and Anthikad were identified. The morphological features, chemioal ...

Twenty surface soils representing four major rice soil types of Keraia viz., the Kari, Karapadom, Kayal and low level laterites were extracted with different extractants viz.. one normal potasium chloride at different ...

Rice seeds were treated with two doses each of gamma rays and EMS. The tillers on Mj plants were classified according to their node positions. The frequencies of emergence for the various tiller categories were estimated. ...