Disposal of yard waste on farmland could help reduce the need for additional landfill disposal sites and should help improve soil quality and productivity. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of disposal of yard waste compost (YWC) on production of field corn (Zea mays) and vegetables. Several on-farm and experiment station studies were conducted from 1993 to 1994. Corn fora...

In the present investigation, an attempt was made to formulate sustained release matrix tablets of Diclofenac sodium using Gum acacia and Okra gum as release modifier. Six batches of sustained release matrix tablets of Diclofenac sodium were prepared by using different drug: polymer ratios viz. 1:1, 1:1.5, 1:2, 1:2.5, 1:3, and 1:3.5 for both gum acacia and Okra gum. The tablets were analyzed fo...

The objective of this investigation was to assess the direct and residual effect graded levels boron (B) on growth, yield quality parameters crops in cauliflower-cowpea-okra cropping sequence. For experimentation, cauliflower grown as a test crop B fertilization while cowpea okra were succeeding fertilization. study revealed an incremental trend plant physiological corresponding escalating leve...

Okra farmers use inorganic fertilizers which are expensive, they result to water pollution, increases the soil acidity, affects nutrients availability and uptake as well reducing microbial activity. Organic manure improves physical, chemical biological properties, environmental friendly. However, have limited information on utilization of these organic sources growth yield, quality net economic...

This study was carried out to examine the effect of selected fruit peels on growth and yield okra (Abelmoschus esculentus). 10g ground banana, watermelon, pawpaw, pineapple, plantain, orange applied 7 kg soil left for days before planting seed. NPK (15:15:15) serves as positive control while groups without fertilizer served negative study. Each treatment replicated five times in polythene bags ...

Samples of okra and brinjal fruits, collected from non-integrated pest management (Non-IPM) and IPM fields in village Raispur, Ghaziabad District (U.P.), were analyzed for pesticide residues. The residues of chlorpyrifos in soil were 4.219 and 1.135 microg/g at harvest time in non-IPM and IPM fields of summer okra crop from initial value of 0.407 microg/g before sowing, while in brinjal crop, i...

The seeds of ten genotypes and twenty-nine wild relatives of okra were analysed for the presence of trypsin, chymotrypsin, and Helicoverpa gut proteinases (HGPs) inhibitors (HGPIs), with the aim to identify potent inhibitors of H. armigera gut proteinases. Proteinase inhibitors (PIs) obtained from wild relatives of okra exhibited stronger inhibition of HGPs than the genotypes of okra. In in vit...