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To know the effect of zinc and boron on crop growth a field experiment was conducted at vegetable research farm, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Pasighat during the rainy season of the year 2019. Two micronutrients (Zinc and Boron) in the form of zinc sulphate and borax were taken in different concentrations (0.5, 1.0 and 1.5%) and applied at 30 and 60 DAS respectively. The results indicated that among different treatments the highest plant height (141.18 cm) at final harvest, Number of nodes per plant (16.26), Inter-nodal length (8.78 cm) and Number of branches per plant (1.93) were recorded the highest with the treatment receiving Borax-1.0% (T5). The least days taken to first flowering (52.77) and fifty per cent flowering (60.13) were also recorded with the same treatment (Borax-1.0%). All the other parameters found significantly lowest under control treatment (T0).

Arunachal Pradesh is known as land of rising Sun which is the biggest in terms of area-wise amongst the state of north east India.The region has 26 major tribe; each tribe has its own enormous indigenous knowledge on the uses of wild plants. Among the tribe, Adi community is one of the major tribe inhabited in the region which has its own habitual way of using horticultural (vegetables) resources for sustaining livelihood. Most of the plants are also ethnically important without wich diverse rituals and festivals (Solung) of adi community remain unfinished. The current servey was under taken interviewed through planned questionaire. In our investigation among 25 wild species, 5 species belong to the Solanaceae family which was found to be most widely used family followed by Apiaceae, Rutaceae, Urticaceae and Araceae. Investigation on the basis of plant parts used reveals that the edible parts of the plants such as 6 species found to be widely used though leaves followed by 3 species fruits and 3 species whole plants besides these other plant parts like young tender leaves, tender stalks, petioles, rhizome also has been observed. This study is aim to initiated the basic information of these valuable herbs vegetable species for popularizing in future. These can compete with the best vegetables if appropriate study is initiated for production and ethanomedicine improvement.

The response of ground nut (Arachis hypogaea L.) cultivar Robut 33-1 to drought stress im posed at different growth phases was studied during the 1982-83 post-rainy season on a medium deep Alfisol at the ICRISAT Center, Patancheru, India-Irrigation amount was varied to three levels for the growth phases: (1) emergence to flowering, (2) emergence to pegging, (3) start of flowering to start of seed growth, and (4) emergence to maturity. Soil water extraction in treat ments 1 and 2 was mostly from the surface 60 cm of soil, whereas in treatment 3 extraction from the 60-120 cm soil layer was significantly higher. Total water use varied with the growth phase and also with the intensity of drought stress within a growth phase. Stress imposed in treatment 2 resulted in increases in pod number and dry matter. Significantly higher pod and kernel yields were obtained in treatment,2. Quality of kernels was also superior in treatment 2, as shown by the improved seed weight, oil and protein contents, and the percentage o f seed to pod weight. In treatment 3, low yields and a lower percentage o f sound mature kernels were observed. Drought stress imposed from flowering to start of seed growth was shown to be important for both yield and quality.