Keeping aside the economic consequences, imposition of strict lockdown in order to break chain deadly infection SARS-CoV-2, has potentially improved global environmental quality by facilitating a significant reduction atmospheric pollution. In present study, level pollutants India viz., NO2, AOD, and PM2.5 before during 2020 were assessed compared using standard methods. The study revealed NO2 ...

The paper presents a detailed understanding of nitrogenous fertilizer use in Indian agriculture and estimation of seasonal nitrogen loosses from rice crop in Indo-Gangetic plain region, the ‘food bowl’ of the Indian sub-continent. An integrated methodology was developed for quantification of different forms of nitrogen losses from rice crop using remote sensing derived inputs, field data of fer...

A field experiment with wheat was conducted at Pusa (25.98°N, 85.67°E, 52 m amsl), Bihar (middle Gangetic plains of India), to assess the responses phenology, yield attributes, and growing season temperature heat stress. For this purpose, planted on five dates (viz., 15 November, 25 5 December, December) for three consecutive years 2014–2015, 2015–2016, 2016–2017) prominent cultivars region RAU...