A field experiment was conducted during 2017 at Horticulture Research Farm-1, BBAU, Lucknow. Studies on the Effect of organic manure and bio-fertilizers on growth and yield parameters of strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.) cv. Chandler, revealed that plant height, number of leaves, length of leaf with petiole, length of leaf, length of petiole, width of leaf, total number of fruits, length of fruit, width of fruit, weight per fruit, weight of fruit per plant, weight fruit per plot were maximized when foliar spray was done with R.D.F (100%), P.S.B (100%), Vermicompost (100%) and Azotobacter (100%) respectively.

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Background: Pulses are the major source of protein and is widely used to fulfill protein requirement of the growing population. Perennial pigeon pea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] is a predominant crop grown in kharif season, also known as Red gram, Arhar or Tur. The present study aimed to correlate yield of C. cajan with growth and soil properties under agroforestry system in Madhya Pradesh. Methods: An experiment was conducted to assess the yield of Cajanus cajan under agroforestry system at Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur during the year 2020-2021. In this study Cajanus cajan (Arhar) intercropped with Pterocarpus marsupium (Bijasal) and Psidium guajava (guava) under silvi-horti-agri system. During study period, growth parameters such as height, no. of pods and no. of branches of C. cajan were recorded and soil properties such as Soil pH, EC, Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium were also estimated before sowing and at the time of harvesting of agriculture crop. Result: Study revealed that yield has highly significant positive correlation with an average plant height (0.4735), no. of pods/plant (0.2558) and no. of branches/plant (0.3765), another result shows that yield has highly significant correlation with organic carbon % (0.7966), nitrogen content of soil (0.3049), Potassium (0.3036), Phosphorus (0.6244) and has negative correlation with pH of soil (-0.9336) and EC (-0.8740) at 5% level of significance. Similarly, correlation of yield with soil parameters at the time of harvesting and the results revealed that the yield has positive correlation with organic carbon % (0.5277), nitrogen content of soil (0.1102), Potassium (0.2324), Phosphorus (0.7118) and has negative correlation with pH of soil (-0.4861) and EC (-0.3853) at 5% level of significance.

Khamer (Gmelina arborea) is a fast-growing multipurpose tree belongs to the family Lamiaceae (Verbinaceae). It has multiple uses ranging from particle board, plywood, core stock, furniture, carriages, sports, musical instruments to sawn. It is mainly propagated through seeds but the problem in seed germination is its hard seed coat which limits seed germination. So the present study was carried out at experimental area of Agroforestry plot of Tropical Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur in the year 2021 with an aim to find best pre-sowing treatment for enhancement of germination in G. arborea. Seeds were treated with different treatment includes growth regulators (GA3 100 and 200 ppm), acid scarification (H2SO4), cold water and untreated seeds as control. Among all the treatments seeds treated with GA3 (200 ppm) recorded the higher germination percentage (98.88%) followed by H2SO4 (93.33%) as compared to untreated seeds in control.