April 2012

Changing spatial pattern, trend and regional imbalances in pulse production in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India

Inspite of being the major source of protein and staple food for the majority of population the production of pulses is stagnated at all India level between 12 and 15 million tonnes. It is believed that the demand of pulses will increase upto 20 million tonnes during 2020 A.D. Thus, a need arise to find out the causes for such stagnation and to suggest some remedial measures for increasing the area and production under...

Author(s): Adnan Shakeel and Najmul Islam Hashmi

April 2012

Discrimination of the cultivation systems for coffea arabica L. via the incidence of filamentous fungi using the zip model on the Bayesian approach

Coffea arabica beans can be produced when basically considering two system types, conventional and organic. The main difference lies in the fact that the conventional system sues chemical fertilizers and pesticides whereas, in the organic system the produce use inputs derived from organic matter. Naturally, the presence or absence of filamentous fungi occurs in both systems. In conventional farming, the fungi found...

Author(s): Vanessa Siqueira Peres da Silva, Juliana Garcia Cespedes, Marcelo Ângelo Cirillo, Fabiana Aparecida Couto and Luís Roberto Batista