ABC of Agri

What if we cooked vegetable steaks?

The craze for vegetable steaks indicates a desire to eat healthier while preserving the planet and animal welfare. Based on soy, peas or cereals, many processors and distributors now offer these products which are now found in different forms: pancakes, steaks, minced … Is this the end of meat consumption? A steak that looks more and […]

The rediscovery of forgotten edible oils.. Are edible oils good for health?

If sunflower, rapeseed or olive oils still dominate our diet, tastier, rarer, more “trendy” oils are invading our kitchens. Walnut oil, carnation, shuttle, squash, hemp… which one to choose? How are they produced and what interests do they have compared to “classic” oils? An evolution in tastes and ways of consuming Less butter, less oils consumed raw: […]

Without flour, No bread. But where does the flour come from? Is bread Gluten free?

Contrary to popular belief, flour does not only come from wheat, but is obtained by grinding the seeds of legumes or cereals of all kinds. Therefore, there is a wide variety of flours that we can taste at the baker’s or use to make our bread at home. The most common  Flour used to make bread […]

Seedless fruits and vegetables: natural or not?

Grapes, watermelons, mandarins but also cucumbers and pickles … seedless fruits and vegetables are popular on stalls and in vegetable gardens. To meet this demand, the seed catalogs display, for example, varieties of tomatoes “fleshy and with very few seeds”. But how do you get these varieties and what is it for?  The seeds are actually seeds […]

Utilization of different parts of Diospyros melanoxylon

Usha Kumari1 , Sudeepa Kumari Jha2 , Madhuri Pradhan3 , Satish Kumar Pandey4 Department of Horticulture, BAU, Kanke, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. Department of Agricultural Entomology, BAU, Kanke, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, College of Agriculture, OUAT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha., India Senior Research Fellow , ICAR –IINRG , Namkum, Ranchi. ABCofAgri publish code: […]

IDENTIFICATION OF COTTON GROWTH STAGES AND GROWTH PATTERN STUDIES IN COTTON GENOTYPES

  Name of the author : Y. JANAKI RAMULU Title of the thesis : IDENTIFICATION OF COTTON GROWTH STAGES AND GROWTH PATTERN STUDIES IN COTTON GENOTYPES Degree : MASTER OF SCIENCE IN AGRICULTURE Faculty : AGRICULTURE Department : CROP PHYSIOLOGY Chairperson : Dr. T. RAMESH University : PROFESSOR JAYASHANKAR TELANGANA STATE AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY Year of […]

Insecticides / Pesticides Registered under section 9(3) of the Insecticides Act, 1968 for use in India

(As on 18/09/2018)    Source S.No. Name of the Pesticide 1. 2,4-D Amine salt 2. 2,4-Dichlorophenoxy Acetic Acid 3. Abamectin* 4. Acephate 5. Acetamiprid 6. Afidopyropen 7. Alachlor 8. Allethrin 9. Alphacypermethrin 10. Alphanaphthyl Acetic Acid 11. Aluminium Phosphide 12. Ametroctradin 13. Ametryn 14. Ampelomyces quisqualis 15. Anilophos 16. Atrazine 17. Aureofungin 18. Azadirachtin (Neem Products) […]

LIST OF PESTICIDES WHICH ARE BANNED, REFUSED REGISTRATION AND RESTRICTED IN USE: INDIA

(As on 30th September, 2018) Source PESTICIDES / FORMULATIONS BANNED IN INDIA   A. Pesticides Banned for manufacture, import and use . 1. Aldicarb    (vide S.O. 682 (E) dated 17th July 2001) 2. Aldrin 3. Benzene Hexachloride 4. Benomyl (vide S.O 3951(E) dated 8th August, 2018) 5. Calcium Cyanide 6. Carbaryl (vide S.O 3951(E) dated […]

PESTICIDES AND FORMULATIONS REGISTERED FOR USE IN THE COUNTRY UNDER THE INSECTICIDES ACT, 1968

Updated on 18.09.2018 Source S. No. Name of the Pesticides Formulation registered No. of formulation 1. 2 ,4-Dichlorophenoxy Acetic Acid (2,4-D Sodium Amine and Ester Salt a) 2, 4-D Sodium Salt used as Tech a.i. 80% w/w min. 1 b) 2,4-D Amine Salt 58% SL 22.5% SL 2 c) 2,4-D Ethyl Ester 38% EC, 4.5%  […]

General Agriculture – Model Question

The passion of gardening from Europe to Asia

This is a first: France and China have formed a partnership around learning gardening in schools. With the 2015-2016 school year, 22,000 children from French-speaking schools in Beijing were introduced to the joys of growing flowers and vegetables, while at the same time, in France, the 17th edition of gardening in schools was getting ready. Beijing renews […]

Svalbard: Noah’s ark of seeds

It may seem paradoxical to keep seeds in a safe frozen 1000 km from the North Pole. In this place where nothing grows, the seed bank of Svalbard, located in Norway, is mainly a “rescue bank”!  In situ and ex situ collections More than 1,500 gene banks store seeds or vegetative organs around the world. From the smallest to the largest, some […]

Cucurbitaceae: a generous and colorful botanical family

Since the 90s, in France we associate the period of All Saints to Halloween, a party from across the Atlantic. On the evening of October 31, everything is good to be scared: skeletons, ghosts, witches, zombies … and grinning pumpkins! Squash and pumpkins are indeed kings in this season: their colors brighten market stalls, and pumpkin dug […]

Grass Cultivation – Today, grass makes life easier!

What a pleasure to find, at the awakening of spring, its dense lawn in the garden … Modern grass varieties simplify our life: less weeding, less mowing, fewer holes in the lawn Grass to avoid weeding With the ban on the use of synthetic plant protection products from 2019, if you are a gardener you […]

Quality protein maize for improving the nutritional status

ABCofAgri Publish Code: ABCAG269811A Maize (Zea mays L.) is the third major cereal crop in the world after wheat and rice and is used for both livestock feed and human consumption. Maize contribute 15% of the world’s protein and 19% of the calories derived from food cops. Pregnant women, lactating mothers, and young children are […]