Rightly acknowledged as the ‘sunrise industry’ in India, the agriculture and allied sectors in general and Agribusiness sector in particular, have witnessed phenomenal growth in recent years with active participation of Government, Private Players, Cooperative Giants and other agencies. Agri-inputs is one of the core segment of agribusiness sector. In this regard, this Conceptual Review Paper, utilizing the published theoretical literature analyzed with a practical orientation, discusses the need, relevance, significance, guiding principles and the resultant multitude benefits of emerging scenario of e-Retailing of agri-inputs in the light of changing landscape of Indian agriculture This paper review the literature that explicitly addresses the adoption of Internet technologies by agri-input retailers and farmers for selling and buying of agri-inputs. It presents a holistic and critical review of the early predictions with regard to the importance of agri-inputs for Indian agriculture, evolution of agri-input marketing, emergence of e-Retailing, SWOT analysis of e-Retailing and explore the possibilities where e-Retailing of agri inputs may be heading in the future. This can help the agri-input dealers and retailers to develop proper e-Retail strategy for selling agri inputs by understanding farmers’ perception and buying behaviour for agri inputs and fulfil their needs effectively and efficiently

Due to rapid urbanization and industrialization, land is being used for non-agricultural purposes, breaking joint family to nuclear families, youth disinterest or dissatisfaction with agriculture lack of Credit, market knowledge, input price changes, and the lack of technical adoption are just a few examples. Multi-Stage, purposive and random sampling technique has been used for data collection. Dewas district and Tonk Khurd block were purposively selected as the FPC is located there and its operating area covers 10 villages so all the 10 villages were selected for the purpose of sampling. 18 farmers who were members of the FPC were randomly selected from each pre selected village from amongst a sample frame of 450 members. It was found that most of the members of Devasa Agro Farmer Producer Company were between 34-49 years of age, around 90 percent of them were literate, more than 50 percent of them were small and marginal farmers and around 84 percent of them had annual income of Rs 71960/- to 426042/-. Thus, it may be concluded that the FPC consisted of middle aged, educated small and medium farmers who had a decent annual income

The study was conducted at Main Agricultural Research Station, UAS, Raichur during rabi-2020-21 to utilize honey bees in sunflower hybrid seed production. Totally, thirty species of floral visitors were recorded on parental lines of sunflower hybrid (KBSH-44), among them 15 were hymenopterans, 7 lepidopterans, 5 coleopterans and 3 dipterans. Apis dorsata was predominant pollinator (20.08 ±10.45 bees/ 5 capitula/ 5 min.) on CMS parental line (CMS 17A), followed by A. cerana and least was A. florea. The peak foraging activity of A. dorsata was recorded at 1100-1200 hr with 33 bees, A. cerana recorded two peak foraging activity, one at 0900-1100 hr (23 bees) and another at 1500-1600 hr (19 bees) and A. florea recorded at 1000-1200 hr (8 bees). The maximum Shannon-Wiener index of diversity (H=1.28) of floral visitors on CMS line under open condition was recorded at 0800-0900 hr and 1000-1100 hr of the day and least (H=0.56) was at 1700-1800 hr. More number of honey bees were recorded in fertility restorer line (RHA 95C-1) compared to the CMS line. A. cerana under caged condition (three colonies per acre) without pollen load on CMS line were recorded highest mean number of nectar foragers (80.25±22.97 bees), followed by A. cerana, A. dorsata and A. florea foragers from natural colonies in open pollination condition. Whereas, highest mean number of nectar foragers (35.08±19.31) of A. cerana under caged condition (three colonies per acre) with pollen load were recorded, followed by A. cerana, A. dorsata and A. florea. Nectar foragers with pollen load on CMS line play an important role in transfer of pollen grains from restorer line to CMS line and carryout effective pollination. A. florea with pollen load spent more foraging duration (12.11 sec/capitulum) on CMS line, followed by A. cerana and least in case of A. dorsata in open pollination. Bees without pollen load spent significantly greater nectar foraging duration as compared with bees with pollen load, both in caged and open pollination situations. Significantly highest seed yield per hectare (887.74 kg), per cent filled seeds (94.44 %), test weight (5.04 g), volume weight (39.18 g/100 ml), kernel percentage (75.34 %), highest kernel to husk ratio (3.06) and highest seed quality & associated parameters were recorded in hand + open pollinated plots, followed by the A. cerana @ 3 colonies per acre treated plots, hand pollination, open pollination and least seed quality parameters were recorded in control treatment

The study was undertaken in the HAT Zone of Eastern ghats region of Andhra Pradesh in India, with the aims of Agri-business incubation, entrepreneurship development of tribal farmers. Area under major crops viz., Paddy, French Bean, Niger and Turmeric in High Altitude & Tribal Zone in Andhra Pradesh for the crop season of 2020-21 were taken into consideration for exploring options and opportunities of value addition and linking of the produce with markets. The minimum export market potential for rice from HAT Zone could be 433.06 crores per annum. Based on the gross margins $ 6.70 of French bean, an estimated Rs. 127.5 crores export revenue can be obtained after due measures. The modus operandi for achieving self-sustained processing units of Niger oil in the form of a producer company in the operational areas of the Farmers Producers Organizations (FPOs) in HAT zone of Andhra Pradesh was proposed. The total export potential of turmeric in the zone was worked out to be Rs. 671.03 crores. Export capacity of wheat could be Rs.8.68 crores and can be even higher if marketed as organic product. Finally, a three-tiered program was designed to create a value chain for the marketing of predominantly exotic floriculture

This study records the prevalence of gastrointestinal helminths in native poultry slaughtered by small meat vendors within the Lakhimpur district of Assam, India. The study was based on collecting alimentary tracts of local poultry slaughtered by meat vendors across the district from March 2022 to March 2023 and detecting parasites. A total of 338 samples from 200 native chickens and 138 ducks were collected. Out of 338 samples, gastrointestinal helminths were detected in 82.54% of the samples and parasitism was higher in local chicken (90.50%) than local ducks (71.01%). The highest prevalence was for Ascaridia galli followed by Raillietina echinobothrida, Raillietina tetragona and Capillaria spp. in both the species studied. The prevalence for Ascaridia galli, R. echinobothrida, R. tetragona and Capillaria spp. were 91%, 29.38%, 23.20% and 17.13% in local chicken, whereas in ducks were 85.71%, 24.49%, 21.42% and 11.22%, respectively. Dispharynx spiralis was detected in the proventriculus of three out of 200 local chickens (1.66%)

Fruits and vegetables that are the source of nutritional diet are highly perishable. The supply of fresh food products to remote disaster-affected area country is a serious concern. Under such situations, microgreens can be helpful to diversify and enhance the nutrient content of the diet in remote locations where food with vitamins C and A availability is a common constraint. Microgreens are small, tender, and immature plants that typically have two fully developed cotyledon leaves, and may or may not have the emergence of a rudimentary pair of the first true leaves. These tiny plants are considered functional foods that are rich in phytonutrients, which offer numerous health-promoting benefits and antioxidant potential. Microgreens are a good alternative to high-value food against various disorders during emergencies. A review was undertaken to study the suitability of microgreens to combat malnutrition. In this review, we focus on the crops that are commonly utilized for microscale vegetable production, with a particular emphasis on the mustard family due to their abundance of health-promoting secondary metabolites, such as polyphenols and glucosinolates. Additionally, we explore the consumer acceptance of both sprouts and microgreens

The size of pustule, number of pustules and per cent disease index due to white rust was recorded in mustard variety PM-28 in two consecutive crop seasons during 2015-16 and 2016-17 at 70, 80 and 90 days after sowing of the crop. The maximum average size of pustules was recorded in check (3.97 mm) followed by zinc sulphate (3.31 mm), Trichoderma viride (3.19 mm). The maximum reduction of the size of the pustules were found in Metalaxyl 0.3% followed by Metalaxyl 0.2% was 57.36 mm and 56.18 mm, respectively. Among the abiotic agents, maximum reduction in the size of the pustules were recorded in salicylic acid (46.48) followed by calcium sulphate (40.82 %) and Potassium chloride (39.59 %). The number of pustules were observed minimum in Metalaxyl 0.2% and Metalaxyl 0.3% was 2.07 and 2.07, respectively. Among the abiotic agents, salicylic acid recoded superior in all treatments over the control which reduced disease 36.27% over the check followed by calcium sulphate (30.88%). Salicylic acid 0.25% reduce 28.66 % white rust disease over the control followed by calcium sulphate at 1.00 % which reduce disease 21.20 %, zinc sulphate at 0.50 % was found least effective abiotic chemical which reduce 5.73 % disease

Cytopathological investigations were conducted on the bronchoalveolar lavage and impression smears collected from the slaughtered sheep showing pneumonic lesions at Deonar abattoir, Mumbai, Maharashtra. Using a standard protocol, the systematic random sampling method was used to note the gross lung lesions and collect bronchoalveolar lavage, impression smears, and representative tissue samples for histopathology. Different cytological values of BALF and impression smears of lung tissues found positive for ovine pulmonary adenomatosis by histopathological findings were compared with bronchopneumonia, bronchointerstitial pneumonia, and interstitial pneumonia. The recovery percentage (44.6%) and total cell count (30.76±2.49cells/?l) of BALF in OPA cases were high compared to other pneumonia cases. The plasma cell counts of BALF (20.00±5.63) and lung impression smear (14.20±2.70) in the OPA- positive cases was significantly higher than the other forms of pneumonia. The different cytological values of the pneumonic sheep lungs with particular reference to the ovine pulmonary adenomatosis were placed for the record

Effect of pre-harvest treatments with chemicals on yield,and storage of onion (Allium cepa L.) The experiment was laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications along with ten treatments. The pre-harvest spray comprises of Streptocycline 200 Ppm (1.2 g/lit), Copper oxychloride 0.25 % (2.5 g/lit), Streptocycline 200 Ppm + COC 0.25 % (1.2 + 2.5 g/lit), Cycocel 500 Ppm (1 ml/lit), Cycocel 1000 Ppm (2 ml/lit), Carbendazim 1000 Ppm (1 g/lit), Carbendazim 2000 Ppm (2 g/lit), Mancozeb 0.25 % (2.5 g/lit), Azoxystrobin 1000 Ppm (2 ml/lit) and control (farmer practice). Pre harvest spray was given at just start of neck fall before harvesting. The observations on equatorial diameter (cm), polar diameter (cm), average weight of bulb (g), % of ‘A’ grade bulbs, % of ‘B’ grade bulbs, % of ‘C’ grade bulbs, % of doubles, % of premature bolters, total bulb yield (t/ha) recorded at the time of harvesting of bulbs and storage losses including, rotting, sprouting, plw, and total losses were recorded during storage at 30, 60, 90, 120, 150 and 180 days after storage