A field experiment was carried out during three successive seasons at M/s. Balaji Flowers, Devashola Estate, The Nilgiris by the Dept. of Floriculture and Landscaping, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University to evaluate Asiatic hybrid lilium cultivars with different levels of fertigation on growth and yield characters. Among the treatments application of @ 8:4:10 g NPK/m2 along with micronutrient mixtures @ 4 g/m2 in the cv. Pollyanna during summer season performed best compare to other treatments. Overall plant growth, days taken for bud initiation, flower shoot length and flower yield were found to be superior under F7 fertigation treatment in summer season over other fertigation levels and seasons. Among the four cultivars, Pollyanna showed improvement in flower shoot length, number of flower buds, diameter of flower and flower yield during summer season. A few other cultivars, viz., Navona, Black Out and Tresor also exhibited higher flower yield during all three seasons. Thus, it has been observed that there is no significant difference among three seasons for flower production in Lilium cultivars but fertigation and cultivar played a significant role.

The present study was conducted as ex-post facto knowledge test in the Rewa district of the Baghelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh. The knowledge was measured using a modified knowledge test developed by Sah, 2005 [19]. 48.33%, 28.33% and 23.34% Peri-urban respondents had medium, low and high level breeding knowledge respectively; 43.33%, 38.33% and 18.34% respondents had medium, low and high feeding knowledge; 60.00% low, 31.67% medium and 08.33% high level healthcare knowledge; 51.67% medium, 31.67% low and 16.66% high level management knowledge; 56.67% medium, 25.00% high and 18.33% low clean milk production practices knowledge and 46.67% medium, 36.67 % low and 16.67% had high level of overall knowledge while that of rural respondents had 51.67% low, medium 33.33%, 15.00% high level breeding knowledge; 55.00% low, 31.67 % medium and 13.33 % high level feeding knowledge; 66.67% low , 30.33% medium and 3.33% high level of healthcare knowledge; 48.33% medium, 41.67 % low, 10.00 % high level of management knowledge; 51.67% medium, 35.00 % low and 13.33 % high level clean milk production knowledge and 48.33 % low, 40.00% medium and 11.67% had high level of overall knowledge. The mean score of knowledge secured by peri-urban respondents was 13.83±2.37, 14.57±3.42, 10.35±1.73, 16.79±2.89, 17.24±3.19 and 72.78±8.92 while rural farmers secured 11.32±1.36, 12.46±2.49, 09.04±2.63, 13.21±3.38, 13.31±2.53 and 59.35±8.82 in breeding, feeding, healthcare, management, clean milk production and overall improved dairy farming practices knowledge respectively. In breeding, feeding and overall knowledge about dairy farming practices, peri-urban farmers were more knowledgeable at the 5 % level of significance and in clean milk production and management; knowledge level was at the 1 % level of significance. Non-significant difference was observed in health care practices in peri-urban and rural dairy farmers.

Kesar mango is grown in Khed, Ambegaon and Junnar tahsils of Pune district hence, these three tahsils have been considered for the study. About 30 Kesar mango growers from Khed, Ambegaon and Junnar tahsils of Pune district were selected. Cost of establishment of mango orchard per hectare for five years was Rs. 1, 74,970. Initial establishment costs such as planting material, gap filling and fencing account for 9.76 per cent of total establishment cost. The average initial establishment cost was Rs. 17100. Total cost of production was Rs. 81,831. The prevailing rate in the market during the period under study was Rs. 3200 per quintal. The gross income received from Kesar mango was observed to be Rs. 1,31,200. The per hectare net profit at input cost and total cost was Rs. 83065 and Rs. 49369, respectively. B:C ratio was 1.60. The most important problems in the production of mango were heavy investments, pest and disease and fruit drop which were ranked as first, second and third respectively. The efforts need to be made to increase area under Kesar mango in plain zone of western Maharashtra.

Forecasting of sediment yield and runoff is very useful for designing of soil and water conservation structures and planning of watershed activities, design of hydraulic structures, etc. Stochastic based model are found to be very reliable in estimating and forecasting sediment yield. In present study, sediment yield on daily basis of Kal river is tributary of Savitri basin were forecasted using seasonal ARIMA model developed in SPSS software following initial analysis of time series, identification model, apply diagnostic checks, adopting a model and forecast the runoff by adopted model with checking the statistical indices such R, RMSE, CE, EV, MAD, MAPE. The sediment yield data for duration of 2003 to 2009 (7 years) measured at Birwadi station were used to calibrated, validate and forecast the sediment yield by the ARIMA model. It is observed that, the data used in ARIMA model is stationary, no trends and no seasonality found in data sets on daily basis. The two models were identified as ARIMA (111,111)31 and ARIMA(101,000)31 as best model for forecasting the sediment yield with R value more than 0.95 during calibration and forecasting period. The other statistical indices RMSE, CE, EV, MAD, MAPE were also found in appropriate range to forecast the sediment yield with goodness of fit. Hence, developed seasonal ARIMA model could be adopt for forecast the sediment yield on daily basis for sub tropical coastal region of Maharashtra by adopting the estimated parameters.

The present experiment was carried out during 2012-15 at farm nursery of the department of Horticulture, CCSHAU Hisar. The jamun seedling were raised in the nursery bed and poly bags in the month of August, 2012 and patch budding was done in the month of July and August 2013. The experiment was repeated during the year 2013-2015. The germination of seed, bud sprouting and shoot length were higher in nursery beds and plant survival was better in poly bags. The time taken for bud sprouting varies from 31-35 days and the maximum success in terms of per cent bud sprouting (38.3%) and maximum shoot length (31.3 cm) were observed from budding done during 4th week of July in seedling raised in nursery beds. However, maximum plant survival percentage (90%) was recorded from budding done from second week of July to second week of August in poly bags. There was not much variation in the temperature during the period of study. Although the relative humidity ranged from 77 % to 92 %. Hence, it is the growth period of the plant, mainly the cell sap flow, which plays vital role in success of budding.