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S. K. N. Math , S. L. Patil , R. N. Adhikari , Vasudev K. Lamani

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The field studies were conducted at Research Farm of Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute, Research Centre, Bellary and in the farmer's fields in Joladarasi and Chellagurki watersheds of Bellary district of Karnataka during 2000-2003. Survival per cent, height, collar diameter and canopy spread of all the bio-fence species evaluated were higher in ridge planting over flat planting. Among the bio-fence species, Agave sisilana survived better and recorded higher collar diameter over other species. Lower runoff and soil loss was observed in ridge planting than flat planting. Ridge planting reduced runoff by 56.9% and soil loss by 87.4% over flat planting. Agave sisilana and Euphorbia tirucalli were found more efficient in reducing runoff by 34.6% and 31%, soil loss by 61.9 and 48.4% and conserving 16.4 and 12.4% higher soil moisture over control respectively. At research farm, sorghum yield was higher by 37% when planted with Agave sisilana and bengalgram yield was higher by 23% when planted with Euphorbia tirucalli. Grain yield of sorghum, sunflower and bengalgram crops were higher by 22, 42 and 11% respectively in ridge method over flat method of planting. Sorghum, sunflower and bengalgram crops when planted away from bio-fence species (2-4 m) recorded 7.1%, 4.8% and 6.7% higher yields as compared to near to bio-fence (<2 m) species. The performance of Agave sisilana and Euphorbia tirucalli planted in ridge method of planting was better with minimum effect on crop yields with better soil and water conservation.

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S. L. Patil ¹, P. K. Mishra ¹, N. Loganandhan ¹, M. N. Ramesha ¹, S. K. N. Math ¹

Affiliations
1 Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute, Research Centre (ICAR), Bellary 583 104, IN

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Pulses play a major role in providing overall prosperity to the small and marginal farmers through nutritional security by meeting their dietary protein requirements and improving production base through conservation of natural resources. Inclusion of pulses in the cropping system as a crop rotation improves soil fertility and crop productivity of cereals and oil seeds. Chickpea is one of the important pulses cultivated in Vertisols during winter season. We examined chickpea cultivars for energy use efficiency, economics, physiological efficiency and water use efficiency (WUE) under different rainfall situations for their sustainable yield and overall profit, in Vertisols of semi-arid tropics of South India. Results revealed that low input energy and high grain and stover yields of cultivars result in higher total output energy and net benefit energy. Higher dry matter efficiency of 0.702 was observed with medium-duration cultivar, whereas WUE was higher in short-duration cultivar followed by medium-duration cultivar. We conclude that medium- duration cultivar and short-duration cultivar are more suitable for the SAT region in terms of greater energy benefits, higher income per unit area, physiological efficiency and water use efficiency. Thus short-duration cultivar could be cultivated during normal to above normal rainfall years and during normal to drought years in winter season on residual soil moisture in Vertisols medium-duration cultivar for higher energy efficiency and economics.

Keywords

Chickpea, Cultivars, Dry Matter, Economics, Energy, Water Use Efficiency.

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S. L. Patil ¹, Sachin Negi ², U. M. Chaskar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Instrumentation and Control, College of Engineering, Pune, IN
2 Department of Instrumentation at H. N. B. Garhwal University, A Central University, Srinagar Garhwal, Uttarakhand, IN

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The wireless sensor network is one of the most significant technologies in the 21st century. So far wireless networking has been focused on high-speed and long range applications. However, there are many wireless monitoring and control applications for industrial and home environments which require longer battery life, lower data rates and less complexity than those existing standards. As an open and global standard for wireless sensor network, ZigBee shows advantages on low-cost, low power consumption and self forming. The ZigBee standard has been developed by the ZigBee Alliance based upon the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. The paper deals with the experimental results related to star topology implementation of wireless sensing network for process automation.

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Wireless Sensor Network, ZigBee, Process Automation, Web Page.

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M. N. Ramesha ¹, M. Jhenkhar ¹, D. Holscher ¹, S. L. Patil ², H. C. Hombe Gowda ³

Affiliations
1 Georg-August University, Goettingen, DE
2 ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Research Centre, Ballari 583 104, IN
3 ICAR-IISWC Research Centre, Sunabeda 763 002, IN

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Krushi Aranya Prothsaha Yojane (KAPY) is a special programme launched by the Government of Karnataka. In this programme, the Forest Department raises quality seedlings in forest nurseries and distributes seedlings to the farmers, public and NGOs at subsidized rates, and also pays incentives to the farmers to encourage them to grow native tree species on their farmlands. Incentives of Rs 10, 15 and 20 have been paid for each seedling that survived after the first, second and third year respectively. Evaluation of the seedlings would be done by the forest officers. In 2017, the incentive amount was increased to Rs 30, 30 and 40 for the first, second and third year respectively, for each surviving seedling at the end of each growing period.

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M. B. Kudari ¹, S. L. Patil ¹

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1 Department of Agricultural Extension Education, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (Karnataka), IN

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The present study was conducted in Dharwad, Gadag, Belagavi, Haveri, Vijaypur, Bagalkot and Uttar Kannada districts of northern Karnataka. The total sample size for the study was 80 Assistant Technology Manager (ATMs). The Ex-post-facto research design was adopted for study. Findings of the study revealed that that majority (81.25 %) of the ATMs belonged to young age group, studied graduation (52.50 %), had less than 5 years of total experience, had participated one to two times of training (55.00 %), belonged to medium organizational climate (61.25 %), belonged to medium organizational commitment (57.50 %), belonged to medium job involvement (61.25 %), belonged to medium job satisfaction (45.00 %), belonged to high job stress (51.25 %), belonged to medium self confidence (61.25 %) and 63.75 per cent of ATMs belonged to medium job performance. Among eleven independent variables job involvement, education, training received and job performance showed positive and significant relationship with perception of usefulness of ATMA by ATMs. All the eleven independent variables taken together explained 49.70 per cent of the variation in the perception of usefulness of ATMA by ATMs.

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Perception, ATM, ATMA.

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M. N. Ramesha ¹, S. L. Patil ², K. B. Sridhar ³

Affiliations
1 ICAR-IISWC Research Centre, Ballari 583 104, IN
2 ICAR-IIPR, Regional Research Centre, Dharwad 580 005, IN
3 ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad 500 059, IN

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