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Research ArticleDiversity of birds at crop fields of Mondouri, West Bengal
Saswati Roy, Rakesh Pashi, S. Dey, Shantanu Jha
The study was carried out in Teaching Farm, Mondouri (22.941842N, 88.513064E) under Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Nadia and West Bengal during June 2015 to April 2016. Landscapes of the area can be classified into two major categories: agricultural fie…
4 Jan 2018
Research ArticleEcofriendly biointensive pest management modules in cowpea under sub-Himalayan West Bengal, India
Sumit K. Satpathi, Suprakash Pal, Rupsanatan Mandal, Nonigopal Shit, Ashutosh Sarkar
A field experiment was conducted at Regional Research Station (Terai Zone), Uttar Banga Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Pundibari, Cooch Behar (India) during the summer season of 2016 to determine the utility and economics of biointensive pest management modules agains…
4 Oct 2017- Meeting Report
Fruit flies: A major challenge in fruits and vegetable growing and their export from India
Shantanu Jha, A. Rama Devi, Ngalaton Kasar, Abhishek Mukherjee
The Fruit Fly Workers meeting held at the Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya on 7th August provided a unique platform to scientists working in the eastern and north-eastern parts of India on fruit flies to interact, share their experience and finally to prio…
4 Oct 2017 - Articles
Studies on target spot of Rauvolfia serpentina caused by Corynespora cassicola
Elvera Monin, B. Dasgupta, Palash Chandra Paul, Jayanta Saha, Srikanta Das
There is no abstract associated with this type of article.
21 Jul 2017 
Research ArticleAdeptness of bio-intensive approach against vascular bacterial wilt in Purulia district of West Bengal
C. Ghosh, B. Mahato, A. Chakraborty, S.K. Bhattacharya, M.K. Bhattacharjya
Vascular bacterial wilt being an impediment of brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) production under the acidic soil condition of Purulia district of West Bengal resulted in 20-30% yield loss every year. The present participatory action research was aimed to study t…
21 Jul 2017
Research ArticleManagement of rice insects by granular formulation of chlorantraniliprole along with foliar sprays of some new molecules
Sitesh Chatterjee, Chirasree Gangopadhyay, Santosh Kumar Roy
The experiment was conducted during kharif seasons of 2014 and 2015 to evaluate field bio-efficacy of new generation molecules against rice insect-pests. Control of pests in seedbed is relatively less expensive than transplanted main-field because of smaller a…
21 Jul 2017- Articles
Isolation and Characterization of Mycoflora from Infected Weeds
Gadeeyya G
An epidemic study was conducted on weed plants for the primary investigation of natural enemies which may became promising biocontrol agents. A total of 7 weed plants include Commelina benghalensis, Cyperus rotundus, Crotalaria verrucosa, Digera muricata, Sida…
21 Jul 2017 
Research ArticleAssessment of different approaches of management of stored grain pest of black gram under homestead condition of purulia district of West Bengal
A. Chakraborty, S.K. Bhattacharya, C. Ghosh, B. Mahato, M.K. Bhattacharjya
Black gram (Vigna mungo L.) is widely cultivated during May to September under the rainfed unbunded uplands of Purulia, West Bengal and the produces are stored by farmers under homestead condition for the purpose of consumption and seed for the next year sowin…
21 Jul 2017- Articles
Disease free seed potato production through seed plot technique at farmers level in Bangladesh
M. Azizul Hoque, M. Sharmin Sultana
No abstract is associated with this type of article.
2 Jul 2017 - Articles
Gene expression studies of the soybean-nematode interac-tion
Savithiry S. Natarajan, Benjamin F. Matthews
No abstract is associated with this type of article.
2 Jul 2017 - Articles
Efficacy, stability and persistence of Ganosol, a Ganoderma based fungicide against plant pathogens
A. Sajeena, T. Marimuthu
Ganoderma which was identified to have antifungal potential by dual culture technique against sheath blight pathogen of rice was developed as an emulsifiable concentrate. The formulation of 10EC at 0.25% was standardized as the best emulsifiable concentration…
2 Jul 2017 - Articles
Host preference of the pulse beetle (Callosobruchus chinensis L.) on different pulses
S. Chakraborty, P. Mondal, S.K. Senapati
No abstract is associated with this type of article.
2 Jul 2017 - Articles
Diseases of ber (Zizyphus jujube) in Eastern India
D.K. Misra, J. Saha, F.K. Bauri
No abstract is associated with this type of article.
2 Jul 2017 - Articles
Effect of biopriming of radish (Raphanus sativus) seed with some antagonistic isolates of Trichoderma
Ria Mukhopadhyay, Sitansu Pan
No abstract is associated with this type of article.
2 Jul 2017 - Articles
Sclerotinia rot of brinjal and its host range in West Bengal
Subhas Hansda, Rajesh Kumar Nanda, S. Dutta, S.K. Ray
No abstract is associated with this type of article.
2 Jul 2017 - Articles
Relative toxicity of some newer molecules against rice moth (Corcyra cephalonica)
A. Chakraborty, S. Chakraborti
No abstract is associated with this type of article.
2 Jul 2017 - Articles
Bioefficacy of imidacloprid 17.8 SL against whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) in brinjal
Abhijit Ghosal, M. L. Chatterjee
Field experiments were conducted in two crop seasons during 2010 and 2011 with brinjal (var Muktakeshi) to evaluate the efficacy of chloro-neonicotinoid as foliar application against whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius). Imidacloprid 17.8 SL @ 50 g a.i./ha, wa…
2 Jul 2017 - Articles
Initiatives of papain industry by private-public-farmer link-ages in classical biocontrol program for papaya mealybug in Tamil Nadu
A. Regupathy, R. Ayyasamy
Papaya cultivation for papain production is taken up by many progressive farmers in Tamil Nadu and facilitated by Senthil Papain and Food Products Ltd (SPFP), Coimbatore since 2004. The onslaught by the new invasive mealybug (PMB)-Paracoccus marginatus William…
2 Jul 2017 - Articles
A simple technique for preservation of female perineal pattern of Meloidogyne spp.
Matiyar Rahaman Khan
No abstract is associated with this type of article.
2 Jul 2017 - Articles
Control of cowpea (Vigna sinensis) root and collar rot (Rhizoctonia solani) with some organic formulations of Trichoderma harzianum under field condition
Sitansu Pan, Amrita Das
Cowpea (Vigna sinensis) has been considered as an important legume fodder and green manure crop during pre-kharif and kharif season. It has been considered even better in performance than maize. In some parts of India it is also used as green vegetable and pul…
2 Jul 2017