India traditionally is an agrarian economy, where even today 40% of the country’s GDP is derived from agriculture and agriculture products. Lately the Indian farmer community was not exposed to the use of ICT for its well-being, but since the Indian private sector has entered the arena, the acceptability of the latest innovations and tools by the farmer has increased. EID Parry, the group compa...

The rice theory of culture is the idea that farming societies developed into more interdependent, tight cultures in response to demands plant. Farming general an interdependent subsistence style, but traditional paddy was starkly different from other major crops like wheat, corn, and potatoes. Paddy required twice as much labor per hectare wheat farming. Farmers responded by creating customs sh...

The study was conducted with a sample of 120 sericulture farmers in Kamrup district Assam three development blocks viz. Bongaon, Boko and Chayani Borduwa. revealed that majority (43.33%) the respondents belonged to middle age group, 36.67% were illiterate, 45.83% small size family 69.17% had pucca house. In case operational land holding (34.17%) possessed holding, 33.95% annual income ranging f...

Rice is the staple food and rice production consumes about 50% of the fresh water resources in China. In addition, drought is one of the most important constraints in rice resulting in large yield losses and limiting the average yield increase of the country. There is an urgent need to enhance water-saving (W) capacity or drought resistance (DR) of rice. WDR varieties can be developed through i...

Over the years, many rice morphotypes have appeared in paddy fields due to the autocratic nature of the rice plant. However, some of these morphotypes are problematic weeds and those which pose serious threat are commonly called as weedy rice (Oryza sativa L.) which has aggravated with the increase of direct-seeded culture technique (Ho et al., 1999). Besides, the presence of weedy rice in padd...

this experiment was conducted in order to optimize the use of paddy fields as second cropping in the mazandaran province. study planed with 8 new cultivars and carried out in randomized complete block design with four replications during two years 2006 and 2007 in dashte-naz agricultural research station of sari. nursery prepared in the september and seedlings were transferred to the field in t...