Now a day’s Grafting is regarded as a rapid alternative tool to the relatively slow breeding methodology. To increase domestic and sustainable vegetable production grafting is a new technology by using resistant rootstock to improve yield and quality of produce. It was first started in Japan & Korea and Efforts are being made in AVRDC to improve production in the Asian lowland tropics. Currently most watermelon, cucumber and various solanaceae crops are grafted before being transplanted in the green house or in the field. The purpose of grafting also has been greatly expanded to various type of stress tolerance, increasing plant vigor, yield and duration of crop. Vegetable grafting has potential to promote cultivation of the vegetables under non-traditional conditions and frazile agro-eco-systems. Focus on enhancing the capacity of vegetable production and consumption to reduce malnutrition by adopting some innovations.

Fig is highly perishable subtropical fruit, hence it succumbs to high spoilage due to Bio- chemical changes takes place during the storage. The shelf life of fruit is these reduced at a faster rate. Post harvest treatment of fig with different gauges of polyethylene cover with or without ventilation resulted in extending shelf life of fig and biochemical changes like physiological loss in weight, total sugars, reducing sugars and no reducing sugars found Significant increase in all the treatments during the advancement of storage.

- In the present study twenty diverse okra genotypes were used to estimate the correlation and path analysis for fruit yield and its contributing characters. The genotypes were evaluated for the following fifteen characters: plant height (PH), stem diameter (SD), number of nodes on main stem (NNMS), first branching node (FBN), number of branches per plant (NB/P), days taken to first flowering (DFF), first flowering node (FFN), first fruiting node (FFr.N), number of flowers per plant (NF/P), number of fruits per plant (NFr/P), fruit diameter (FD), fruit length (FL), fruit weight (FW), number of seeds per fruit (NS/F) and yield/ha (Y/h). Number of flowers per plant and number of fruits per plant showed highest positive and very high significant correlation with yield per hectare followed by nodes on the main stem and plant height. Plant height and nodes on the main stem showed positive and significant correlation with yield per hectare. Stem diameter showed negative and significant correlation with first branching node and plant height with number of branches per plant and days taken to first flowering. Path coefficient analysis on various yield contributing characters revealed that fruits per plant, fruit length, number of seeds per fruit, number of branches per plant, plant height, fruit weight and number of flowers per plant showed direct positive effect towards yield.

A 7.4 kW (Twin cylinder, water cooled) Diesel engine was operated on recommended B20 ((Jatropha methyl ester 20 per cent: Hi-speed Diesel 80 per cent) blend. The standard 200 h durability test procedure as per EMA standard was followed to test engine durability for its performance in terms of break power, BSFC, BSFC, BThE and Exhaust gas temperature with four load conditions specified by EMA (0, 50, 75 and 100 percent load). The performance of diesel engine was found satisfactory for the trial duration.

This study presents the drying kinetics of asparagus using solar dryer and fluidized bed dryer at four temperature levels of 40, 50, 60 and 700C. The drying rate was always higher in case of fluidized bed dryer as compare to solar dryer and it was increased with increase in temperature. The maximum drying rate 5.953% d.b./min was observed in fluidized bed dryer at 70oC in the first 60 min. Three thin layer drying models were fitted to the experimental data of asparagus. The best model to predict the moisture content of asparagus in thin layer was found to be Page equation. Color of asparagus was slightly changed after drying. The power consumption was found lower for fluidized bed dryer as as compare to solar dryer. The rehydration ratio was maximum of 5.745 for fluidized bed dryer at 600C and dehydration ratio was maximum 7.092 for solar dryer at 700C.