The present study was conducted on the 90 farmers during 2013-14 Alibag and Murud Tahsils of Raigarh district of Maharashtra State. The present study was examined marketing costs, margins and price spread of coconut. At the overall level, 89.65 per cent quantity was sold in different markets, of which, 9.64 per cent quantity was sold through Channel I (Producer-Consumer), 41.78, 39.92 and 8.66 per cent quantities were sold through Channel II (Producer-Village trader-Retailer-Consumer), Channel III (Channel-III: Producer-Wholesaler-Retailer-Consumer) and Channel IV (Producer-Village trader- Wholesaler- Retailer- Consumer), respectively. The Producers share in consumer’s rupee was the highest in channel I (96.29 per cent) and lowest in Channel IV (66.22 per cent), however maximum quantity was passed through Channel III (41.78 per cent) and Channel II (39.92 per cent) very low quantity was passed through channel IV (8.66 per cent). The cost of marketing of coconut in Channel IV i.e. in nearby markets was observed highest in Pen and Alibag markets due to higher transportation charges.

The present experiment was conducted under the study on scope and use of light trap as IPM tool in chickpea ecosystem. Documentation of information was done on biodiversity of harmful insect fauna in chickpea ecosystem collected in light trap at Jabalpur. Standard design of Jawahar light trap with 80 W mucury vapor lamp was used to record the insect catches in chickpea crop from September 2012 to April 2013. Data was classified on taxonomic and economic aspect as crop pests. In all 51 species of insects were collected during the cropping season of chickpea. These insect species belongs to 6 insect orders and 23 families. Lepidoptera was the largest order with 30 species. Other major orders were Hemiptera (9 species), Coleoptera (4 species) and Orthoptera (6 species). Isoptera (1 species) & Diptera, (1 species)were the other orders of minor significance. Based on economic importance this collection was represented by 51 species of harmful insects.

The aim of the study was to predict the correlation of body weights with different body measurements and to derive simple regression equations for estimation of live weight in Sahiwal cattle. Total 194 purebred growing Sahiwal cattle of both the sexes was taken for study and was divided into six age groups (0-6, 6-12, 12-18, 18-24 and 24-36 months). Animals were weighed on a mechanical scale and their heart girth (HG), body length (BL), height at wither (HAW), chest depth (CD) and head to shoulder length (SH) were measured. All the phenotypic correlations among body weight and different body measurements were positive and heart girth (HG) shown highest correlation with live body weight than other body measurements. Study revealed that when HG can be used as a single variable to evaluate body weights more accurately up to age of 36 months in Sahiwal calves.

Jack is heterozygous in nature and has long juvenile phase, true to the types can be obtained through grafting. This experiment was carried out to find out the optimum age of rootstock for carrying out softwood grafting in jack. The grafting operation was carried out at monthly intervals on two months to seven months old rootstocks. Precured scion sticks were used for grafting purpose in this experiment, seven months old rootstock recorded the maximum graft success (72.39%) when compared to all the other ages of rootstocks under study. There was no sprouting observed in case of six months old rootstock and the least success (23.60%) was in five months old rootstock. The number of days taken for bud sprouting was minimum (21.50) in case of seven months old rootstock and the maximum number of days was recorded in four months old rootstock (23.32) and five months old rootstock (23.52).Seven months old rootstock recorded the maximum number of leaves (5.60), number of buds (3.49), length (19.50cm) and girth of shoot (0.86cm), whereas the number of branches was highest (1.91) in four months old rootstock. The mortality of grafts was minimum (25.65%) in seven months old rootstock, while it was highest in case of six months old rootstock.

The study was to increase the source size per unit land area by manipulating plant density (spacing) and nutrient level (mainly nitrogen). The crop was grown with different levels of nitrogen (50 %, 100 % and 200 %) in combination with two different spacing (60 x 30cm2 and 45 x 30cm2) and growth regulator mixture comprising 20 ppm NAA, 10 ppm GA and 20 ppm BA was imposed. Effect of defoliation in two different spacing was also studied. With wider spacing, number of achenes and 100 achene weight per head were higher due to less plant population that produced significantly bold grains which reduced the competition between the plants and also allowed more light interception and availability of nutrients. Among all the treatments, the plants treated with 200 % N along with growth regulator mixture increased absolute growth rate (AGR), seed yield, total dry matter (TDM) and oil content under both plant densities. This treatment enhanced leaf area duration by 15.7%, seed yield was reduced by 32%, due to lesser number of plants/m2. There was no significant difference between the seasons and also between different plant densities in seed yield per plant. In the same treatment, similar observations were recorded for TDM through seed yield/m2 which was more in 60 x 30 cm2 spacing. Whereas biomass/m2 was more in 45 x 30 cm2 spacing up to 30 per cent. Seed yield and TDM were high in rabi compared to kharif. The overall conclusion from this study is, increasing source size by applying 200% N combined with growth regulator mixture by maintaining recommended plant density and productivity can be increased up to 10-15 per cent.