Dr Akhil Verma Sorghum is the ‘King of Millets’ and a dual-purpose crop mainly grown for its grain and fodder, it is also known by various vernacular names such as great millet, jowar, charri etc.

Expansive Clay Soils Clay-heavy soils, common in many areas ... stabilizers during construction can enhance the load-bearing capacity of sandy soils. 3. Silt and Loam Soils These soils retain water ...

The imbalanced soil nutrient status caused by the long-term monoculture of flue-cured tobacco are a concern. The tobacco–maize relay intercropping, widely used in Yunnan, may improve soil nutrients by ...

and were enhanced in chestnut soil, clay, and at a bulk density of 1.2–1.4 g·cm-3. Random forest model and multifactorial optimization revealed that the effects of nitrogen addition on maize yield in ...

Selected physicochemical properties of the soils appear in Table 1. The hydrometer method was used to determine sand and clay contents and soil pH was measured in a 1:2 soil/deionized water mixture.

The Belden Village Apartments in Clairemont Mesa East of San Diego is home to a diverse population of older adults. Shital Parikh, a UC Master Gardener of San Diego County, took the initiative to ...

But really, there were substantial differences. In both soil types — silt loam and silty clay loam — chiseling followed by vertical harrowing yielded the most, and one pass with a soil ...