The present investigation was aimed at determining the effect of combined combination of biofertilizers along with chemical fertilizers application on growth and yield parameters of tomato plants. An experiment was conducted at Horticultural College and Research Institute, Periyakulam in the year 2016 Rabi season. The trial was laid out in a Randomized Block Design (RBD) including nine set of treatments with three replications to evaluate the effect of inorganic fertilizers like that N, P and K (75 % and 100% prescribed dosage) with organic fertilizers including Azospirillum, Phosphobacteria, potash mobilizer (each 1 lit/ acre), VAM (5 kg/acre) and humicacid (3 lit/acre) as soil and foliar application along with control. PKM 1 variety of tomato was taken as a test crop. The seedlings were transferred to the main field and inorganic fertilizers (N, P and K) were applied as per the treatment schedule. The organic fertilizer treatment was imposed at 15 days interval three times on the standing crop with varying dosages. Observation parameters like plant height (cm), average number of fruits per plot, average fruit weight per plant (g), yield (tonnes/ha), days to 50% flowering, ascorbic content and TSS were recorded. The treatments T 8 [75 % RCF + biofertilizers (Azospirillum + Phosphobacteria + potash mobilizer + VAM)+ humic acid liquid as soil application] recorded maximum in plant height (73 cm), average number of fruits per plot (59), average weight of fruits per plot (707 g), yield (31.56 t/ha), ascorbic content (17.3 mg/100g) and TSS (5.5 0 Brix), followed byT 6 (RCF + biofertilizers -(Azospirillum + Phosphobacteria + Potash mobilizer + VAM + humicplus liquid as soil application) while the control T 1 recorded lowest. The overall result revealed that 75% inorganic fertilizers combined with organic fertilizers increased number of fruits, weight of fruits and yield, compared to control and the percentage increase in yield was 35% over control. Janaki, D. (2018). Effect of organic source of fertilizers along with inorganic on growth, yield and quality of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L) cv. PKM 1. Asian J. Hort., 13(1) : 28-31, HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE :

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Information Technology (IT) plays an essential role on development of effective supply chain planning and it can improve the supply chain performance, either directly or indirectly. As a national industry, the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company involves a large number of organizations within its supply chain. Therefore, this descriptive-survey uses information sharing indicators, fuzzy TOPSIS technique based on managers and expert opinions to evaluate and to rank some oil products distribution companies. Data are analyzed and the results show that Oil Products Distribution Company of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari received the highest rank and Farsan maintained the lowest rank compared with other regional companies.

Jamun (Syzygium cuminii Skeels.) is the medicinally important indigenous fruit tree of India belongs to the Myrtaceae family. The antidiabietic properties of Jamun brought higher market demand which stimulates to increase the fruit production and also brought the off season concept for commercial exploitation by paclobutrazol application. An investigation was carried out to study the effect of paclobutrazol and NAA application on yield attributing characters of nine years old jamun trees during 2017-18. The various treatment combinations are paclobutrazol (PBZ - 0, 0.50, 1.0 and 1.5 g a.i. m-1 of canopy diameter) and foliar spray of NAA (0, 50 ppm, 75 ppm and 100 ppm) application at different concentrations. The experiment results revealed that fruit length (2.87 cm), pulp – seed ratio (6.54), fruit weight (14.05 g), fruit retention (65.04 per cent) and yield (68.31 kg tree-1) were observed higher in the treatment combination of PBZ 1.0 g a.i. application with 75 ppm of NAA followed by PBZ 1.5 g a.i. application with 100 ppm of NAA and the lower values were registered in control. Jamun trees treated with paclobutrazol and NAA aided in early induction of enhanced flowering and yield attributing characters.