Dragon fruit (Hylocereus spp.)  is a recently introduced super fruit in India, gaining popularity both in the rural and urban areas because of its attractive colour, delicious taste, high nutritive and medicinal values. It is adaptable to humid as well as semi-arid tropical and subtropical conditions. The growing acceptability of the fruit along with its immense antioxidants and medicinal properties has led to high demand of its cultivation followed  quality planting materials in desired quantity. Dragon fruit can be propagated by various ways both sexually via seeds as well as asexually via stem cuttings, grafting and also via micropropagation. In this review various methods of propagation of dragon fruit are described along with some propagation aspects related to dragon fruit on which very limited information is available. Potential areas on dragon fruit propagation that require further research to generate more data in order to improve the techniques are also discussed.

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A field experiment was conducted in the farmers' field of Karbi Anglong district of Assam in the year 2016-17 and 2017-18 to study the effect of organic sources of inputs on growth, yield and economics of Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.). Results revealed that FYM @ 5t/ha + Vermicompost @ 1t/ha + Seed treatment with azotobacter and PSB @ 7.5 g each/100g+ soil application of rock phosphate @ 13 Kg/ha (T3) showed significantly higher values of plant height (108.50 cm), first fruiting node (5 th node), number of fruits per plant (9.25), average fruit weight (21.05 g), average fruit length (16 cm), average fruit girth (4.75 cm) and yield (80.58 q/ha) than T4 (control). The economical parameters in terms of Net return (Rs.105640.00), Gross return (Rs. 161310) and B:C ratio (3.04) were also found to be considerably higher in T3 as compared to T1 (Recommended NPK) and T2 (Recommended NPK + FYM). Farmers' practice (T4) recorded the least B:C ratio of 2.17. Therefore, T3 was found to be the feasible option for obtaining higher yield and profitable income.