Aim: To study the effect of different mulches on quality and soil parameters ridge gourd.
 Study Design: The experiment was carried out with 7 treatments in Randomized Block Design (RBD) three replications.
 Place Duration Study: research trial at P.G block, College Horticulture, Rajendranagar, SKLTSHU, Hyderabad during Kharif, 2021 summer, 2022.
 Results: Among organic inorganic...

Human activities such as mining, expanding industrial areas, application of fertilizers and pesticides on land, petrochemical spillages, etc. lead to an increase in the number heavy metals soil, thereby causing soil contamination. Similar air water contamination, contamination also has a severe impact ecological balance. Iron, chromium, zinc, copper, lead, cadmium, mercury are major metal pollu...

Determination and Comparison of the Efficiency Optimum Vinasse Mulches Based on Mechanical Indicators (Case Study: North Khorramshahr)

Many techniques have been and are being made to find alternatives water-saving practices. Among them, Partial root drying (PRD), one effective approach, plays a major role in reducing the harmful effects of water deficit stress. Field experiments were carried out on mango trees for private farm Egypt over course two years, 2020/2021 2021/2022, an area with sandy soil, hot summer conditions, col...

Post-planting weed control methods on abandoned farmland were studied in three fi eld trials in southern Finland using a completely randomized design with four treatments and 30 to 40 replications. Mulches of 60 × 60 cm [sheet mulch – strips of plane waste and plastic fi bre, newspaper – waste paper slurry, wood chips, pure wood fi bre slurry], herbicides [i.e. glyphosate or terbuthylazine alon...

Abstract The research was conducted to study the performance of cucumber under protected conditions with different plastic mulches. This experiment in a split plot design, having irrigation levels as main and mulches subplots. revealed that mulching helped maintain soil moisture higher than bare black mulch showed temperature (23.3%) 100% irrigation. Plant height yield also influenced by mulchi...

cantaloupe (cucumis melo var reticulatus) belongs to cucurbitaceae family and is cultivated in various parts of iran. polyethylene mulches have recently been used in vegetable growing, for different purposes. to study the effects of different polythylehe mulches on the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of cantaloupe, an experiment was conducted in kaboutar-abad agricultural research ...

The changing patterns of climatic parameters like rise in atmospheric temperature, changes in precipitation patterns, excess UV radiation and higher incidence of extreme weather events like droughts and floods are emerging major threats for vegetable production in the tropical zone (Tirado et al., 2010). Vegetable crops are very sensitive to climatic vagaries and sudden rise in temperature as w...

Soil temperature controls plant growth and many related processes in the soil. A mulch or crop residue covering the soil may alter soil temperatures significantly. Available simulation models often lack experimental data for the mulch thermal conductivity and its dependence on air velocity. The apparent thermal conductivity (k) of wheat straw, pine straw, tire chips, dry sandy soil, and the the...