MANAGEMENT OF LEAFHOPPER (Orosius albicintus) OF SESAMUM WITH CERTAIN INSECTICIDES.

T. VENKATRAMANA REDDY*, K.V. HARI PRASAD, M.S.V. CHALAM and K. VISWANATH Department of Entomology,S.V. Agricultural College, ANGRAU, Tirupati-517502, Chittoor Dt., A.P, India ABSTRACT A field experiment was carried out during Kharif 2018 at dry land farm, S.V. Agricultural College, Tirupati to assess theefficacy of certain insecticides against leafhopper (Orosius albicintus) of sesame. Results on efficacy […]

EFFECT OFCASTOR GENOTYPES WITH DIFFERENT BLOOMS ON GROWTHAND DEVELOPMENT OF CASTOR SEMILOOPER, Parallelia algira (LINNAEUS)

M. MUNESWARI*, K. V. HARI PRASAD, N.C. VENKATESWARLU AND V. UMAMAHESH, Department of Entomology, S.V. Agricultural College, ANGRAU, Tirupati-517502, Chittoor Dt. A.P, India ABSTRACT Effect of castor genotypes with different blooms on growth and development of castor semilooper, Parallelia algira was studied using neonate larvae. Biological parameters such as egg duration, larval duration, pupal duration, […]

INFLUENCE OF THERMAL INDICES ON PHENOLOGY OF RAINFED LOWLAND RICE

G. NAVEEN*, V. UMAMAHESH, A. R. NIRMAL KUMAR and Y. REDDI RAMU Department of Crop physiology, S.V. Agricultural College, ANGRAU, Tirupati – 517502, Chittoor Dt., A.P., India ABSTRACT A field experiment was carried out during kharif, 2018 on sandy clay loam soils of wet land farm of S. V. Agricultural College, Tirupati, Acharya, N. G. […]

BIO DIVERSITY OF PLANTHOPPERS IN SORGHUM CROP-ECOSYSTEMS OF SOUTHERN AND SCARCE RAINFALLZONES OFANDHRAPRADESH.

L. GEETHANJALI*, M. S. V. CHALAM, S. R. KOTESWARA RAO and G. MOHANNAIDU Department of Entomology, S.V. Agricultural College, ANGRAU, Tirupati – 517502, Chittoor Dt., A.P., India ABSTRACT Six planthopper species were collected, identified and described from sorghum crop ecosystem of southern and scarce rainfall zones of Andhra Pradesh. The planthopper fauna collected from sorghum […]

A STUDY ON GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF CROP INSURANCE SCHEMES IN ANDHRA PRADESH AND INDIA.

M. MARY SHARON*, B. APARNA, S.RAJESWARI and B. RAVINDRA REDDY Department of Agricultural Economics, S.V.Agricultural College, ANGRAU, Tirupati-517 502, Chittoor Dt., A.P., India ABSTRACT Agriculture is an important sector of the Indian economy, accounting for 15.87 per cent of the nation’s GDP, about half of the population still relies on agriculture. It is varied, diversified […]

SPECIES COMPOSITION OFPREDACEOUS COCCINELLIDS IN PULSESAND GROUNDNUT CROPECOSYSTEMS OFCHITTOOR DISTRICT,ANDHRAPRADESH.

T. VASISTA*, M. S. V. CHALAM, K. V. HARI PRASAD and G . MOHAN NAIDU Department of Entomology, S. V. Agricultural College, Tirupati- 517 502, Chittoor Dt., A.P., India ABSTRACT A survey was conducted in ten major pulse and groundnut growing mandals of Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. From each mandal five villages were selected […]

CULTURAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIABILITY IN ISOLATES OF Sclerotium oryzae, THE RICE STEM ROT PATHOGEN.

Y. VANI*, R. SARADA JAYALAKSHMI, P. MADHUSUDHAN and V. LAKSHMI NARAYANA REDDY Department of plant pathology, S. V. Agricultural College, ANGRAU, Tirupati – 517 502, Chittoor Dt., A.P., India ABSTRACT Twelve isolates of Sclerotium oryzae (Catt). causing stem rot of rice were collected from major rice growing areas in Andhra Pradesh, India. Variability among these […]

GENETIC VARIABILITYAND CORRELATION STUDIES ON PHYSIOLOGICAL,YIELDAND YIELD ATTRIBUTES IN GROUNDNUT ( Arachis hypogaea L.).

K. SARITHA*, R. P. VASANTHI, M. SHANTHI PRIYA AND P. LATHA Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, S.V. Agricultural College, ANGRAU, Tirupathi- 517502, Chittoor Dt., Andhra Pradesh, India ABSTRACT The extent of genetic variability and association of important physiological, yield and yield characters were determined in a set of 32 groundnut genotypes. Analysis of variance […]

INFLUENCE OF SEED PRIMING ON SEED GERMINATIONAND SEEDLINGVIGOUR OF DRY DIRECT SOWN RICE (Oryza Sativa L.).

R. PAVANI,V. UMAMAHESH *, A.R. NIRMAL KUMAR AND Y.REDDI RAMU Department of Crop Physiology, S.V. Agricultural College, ANGRAU, Tirupati- 517502, Chittoor Dt., Andhra Pradesh ABSTRACT A laboratory experiment was conducted in completely randomized design and replicated thrice with six popular aerobic rice genotypes i.e. MTU 1010, MTU 7029, JGL 20171, NLR33671, MTU 1075 and MTU […]

CORRELATION AND PATH ANALYSIS STUDIES IN GROUNDNUT (Arachis hypogaea L.) UNDER ORGANICAND INORGANIC FERTILIZER MANAGEMENTS.

G. MEGHALA DEVI*, M. SHANTHI PRIYA, M. REDDI SEKHAR AND P. LATHA Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, S.V. Agricultural college,ANGRAU, Tirupati- 517502, Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India ABSTRACT Character association and path analysis studies were conducted in 30 genotypes of groundnut under organic and inorganic fertilizer managements. Significant positive association of pod yield per […]