ANITA KUMARI*, K. S. AHLAWAT, DALIP KUMAR BISHNOI, KAUTILYA CHAUDHARY, CHHAVI SIROHI, VIRENDER DALAL AND PAWAN KUMAR POONIA
Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, Department of Forestry, Department of Agricultural Economics, Department of Soil Science
CCS Haryana Agricultural University Hisar-125 004 (Haryana) India
*(e-mail: anitahsr@gmail.com)
(Received: 22 August 2024; Accepted: 28 September 2024)

SUMMARY

The present work was conducted to study the effect of willow (Salix alba) based agroforestry system (AFS) on physiological and yield responses of different crops. Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), wheat (Triticum aestivum), barley (Hordeum vulgare) and mustard (Brassica juncea) were sown in their respective seasons with willow intercropping (5-year old willow based agroforestry system with a spacing of 3m×3m) and without willow intercropping i.e. as sole crop in open fields. Willow growth parameters, including basal diameter (14.35 cm) and DBH (12.19 cm) were recorded during the study. Observations were recorded on growth, physiological traits, yield attributes and economics of the intercropped species compared to their respective sole crop under willow based AFS. A significant reduction in photosynthetic rate, plant height and yield parameters was observed in all the above crops with willow-based AFS compared to open-field sole cropping system. Fodder yield in sorghum ranged from 5.41 t/ha (with willow) to 40.90 t/ha (sole crop control) whereas grain yield of wheat and barley ranged from 1.76 t/ha (with willow) and 4.33 t/ha (open field), and 0.74 t/ha (with willow) and 3.91 t/ha (open field) respectively. However, mustard seed yield ranged 0.99 t/ha (with willow) to 1.88 t/ha (sole crop).

Key words: Agroforestry, barley, grain yield, green fodder, sorghum, mustard, wheat, willow

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KANGKAN DEBNATH, VINOD KUMAR*, SEEMA S. DODDAMANI AND CHANDRASHEKHAR S. S.
Department of Seed Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, UAS, Dharwad-580005, Karnataka
Indian Grassland and Fodder Research institute, Dharwad-580 005 (Karnataka), India
*(e-mail: vinoddhone@gmail.com)
(Received: 24 April 2024; Accepted: 4 September 2024)

SUMMARY

The most significant drawback of grass seed is their low germination capacity, ranging from 12.0% to 17.5%, coupled with a lack of caryopsis, resulting in poor seed set. To address this issue and promote better seedling establishment, the process of multiple seed pelleting is deemed essential. This investigation focuses on evaluating various filler materials suitable for seed pelleting, specifically aimed at identifying the most economical and efficient option for farm-level use in fluffed seeds of dinanath grass. The experiment involved the assessment of eight different indigenously available fillers: soil, sawdust, wheat bran, charcoal, vermicompost, FYM (Farm Yard Manure), limestone, and biogas slurry powder. Fluffed seeds of dinanath grass were pelleted with these fillers using a gum arabica solution (50%) as the adhesive material. Standardization of filler quantity and adhesive requirement was conducted for each filler material. The laboratory investigation revealed soil to be the most suitable filler material based on various parameters studied. While limestone pellets exhibited the maximum pellet diameter and individual pellet weight, soil pellets demonstrated higher uniformity in pellet diameter and could accommodate the maximum number of seeds within each pellet. Consequently, soil pellets resulted in higher seed germination rates per pellet. Moreover, soil pellets exhibited favorable characteristics such as easy breakage upon water imbibition, rendering them more suitable for pelleting purposes.

Key words: Dinanath grass, seed pelleting, filler material, soil pellets, seed germination

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KHUSH LATA, SUNDEEP KUMAR ANTIL*, RAVINDER PARWASI AND ANIL KUMAR
Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, GJUS&T, Hisar-125 001 (Haryana), India Haryana Space Applications Centre, Hisar, Haryana
KVK, Sonipat, Haryana, CCS HAU
Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, COAE&T, CCS HAU Hisar-125 004 (Haryana), India *(e-mail: sundeepantil@gmail.com)
(Received: 8 September 2024; Accepted: 27 September 2024)

SUMMARY

The Land Use Land Cover (LULC) information has always played a significant role in planning, management, and monitoring of various programmes at local, regional, and national levels. Changes in LULC are the direct and indirect consequences of human and climatic actions happened in that region. An attempt has made to study the changes in LULC pattern of Fatehabad district in the Haryana, India for the period of year 2016 and year 2021 using the Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The Sentinel 2A, MSI data and supervised classification using maximum likelihood supervised classifier was used to prepare the land cover maps of the district. The five main LULC classes viz; water bodies, built-up, fallow, Agriculture and vegetation have undergone significant changes in last five years. The present study is focused on the land use and cover change detection with a total covering an area of 2,538 sq. km of the district. The increased in built- up area from year 2016 to year 2021 has indicated the expansion in urbanisation, increased population and industrial activities in the district. The decreased in water bodies area by 27.21%, vegetation by 44.22%, and increase in fallow land by 16.41% present an alarming situation from 2016 to year 2021. However, in further studies the inclusion of other co-variable which contributes in LULC changes in the analysis should certainly improve the results of the study.

Key words: Change detection, classification, land use land cover, remote sensing

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YOGESH JINDAL, D. S. PHOGAT, N. K. THAKRAL, SATPAL AND J. TOKAS
Forage Section, Department of Genetics & Plant Breeding, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004 (Haryana), India *(e-mail: satpal.fpj@gmail.com)
(Received: 12 May 2024; Accepted: 25 September 2024)

SUMMARY

The single-cut fodder oat variety, HFO 427, was developed by Forage Section, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar. It was released and notified for cultivation under timely sown, normal fertility and irrigated conditions during rabi season in South zone (Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh) of the country. It was developed through pedigree method of breeding. HFO 427 gave 320.2 q/ha green fodder yield which was 12.6% and 12.5% more than the national checks Kent (284.5 q/ha) and OS 6 (284.7 q/ha), respectively. It showed superiority of 13.5% green fodder yield than the South zone check JHO 2000- 4 (282.2 q/ha). In the case of dry matter yield, the variety HFO 427 (67.4 q/ha) out yielded the best national checks Kent (61.9 q/ha) by 8.9% and OS 6 (62.3 q/ha) by 8.2%. This variety out yielded the South zone check JHO 2000-4 (56.9 q/ha) by 18.4%. The variety HFO 427 gave a seed yield of 10.4 q/ ha out yielded the best national checks Kent (9.47 q/ha) by 9.9% and OS 6 (7.78 q/ha) by 33.8%. This variety out yielded the zonal check JHO 2000-4 (8.97 q/ha) by 16.0%. The estimated crude protein content was 8.4% in HFO 427 which was at a par with the national checks Kent and OS 6 and zonal check JHO 2000-4.

Key words: Oat, single cut, green fodder, seed yield and crude protein

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