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Urban gardening in Dhaka: Practices, constraints, and impacts

Urban Agriculture &Regional Food Systems, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2026.
Abstract The production of fruits and vegetables by urban residents can enhance food security and provide various additional benefits, but empirical data to support these claims is limited. This study uses questionnaire‐based data from 1320 households in Dhaka, Bangladesh, including 1079 gardeners and 241 non‐gardeners, to examine urban gardening ...
Nusrat Akber, Pepijn Schreinemachers, Sandhya S. Kumar, Md. Nassir Uddin   +3 more
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COMBINING ABILITY STUDIES IN RIDGE GOURD [LUFFA ACUTANGULA (ROXB.) L.] [PDF]

, 2015
Twenty eight hybrids were crossed in a diallel fashion excluding reciprocals and to estimate combining ability in ridge gourd for fruit yield and yield components. F 1 ’s and parents were evaluated under four environments created by two different date(s)
A. K. SONI, BALBIR SINGH, S. K. BAIRWA, P. K. YADAV   +3 more
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Thar Karni: A high temperature tolerant variety of ridge gourd for arid region [PDF]

, 2018
Several local landraces of ridge gourd are spread over a wide range of environments in Rajasthan having specific traits. Evaluated 40 germplasm of ridge gourd under hot arid conditions of western Rajasthan over the years during summer season for ...
Choudhary BR, Maheshwari SK, Haldhar SM, Saroj PL   +3 more
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Improving the Productivity of Existing Rice‐Based Cropping Systems Through Crop Intensification and Diversification in Tista Meander Floodplain (AEZ‐3) of Bangladesh

International Journal of Agronomy, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Enhancing productivity and cropping intensity in rice‐based systems is the key to securing food and livelihoods in Bangladesh. This study explored alternatives to the traditional boro rice–fallow–T. aman crop rotation in AEZ‐3 over 2021–23 at the Regional Agricultural Research Station, Rangpur.
Md. Armanul Islam Sarker, Md. Liton Mia, Md. Shafiqul Islam, Md. Abdul Kader, Ahmed Khairul Hasan, Maria Serrano   +5 more
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Twenty years of cucurbit breeding research at the World Vegetable Center

Crop Science, Volume 65, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
Abstract The contribution of cucurbit crops to global food and nutrition security is immense. They are economically and nutritionally important to smallholder farmers in Asia, who account for 81% of global cucurbit production. World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) has been focused for 20 years on four species: bitter gourd (Momordica charantia), ridge ...
Narinder Pal Singh Dhillon
wiley   +1 more source

Biomass‐Derived Carbon and Their Composites for Supercapacitor Applications: Sources, Functions, and Mechanisms

EcoEnergy, Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2025.
Carbon materials derived from biomass are sustainable and environmentally friendly, making them ideal for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. This review explores nanocomposites utilizing biomass‐derived carbon with MXenes, metal‐organic frameworks (MOFs), graphene, conductive polymers, and transition metal oxides/hydroxides, highlighting ...
Xi Zhu, Yi Zeng, Xianhui Zhao, Dan Liu, Weiwei Lei, Shun Lu   +5 more
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Sclerotinia Rot of Ridge Gourd and Pointed Gourd in Lateritic Zone of West Bengal, India [PDF]

, 2014
: Sclerotinia rot caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary was recorded on ridge gourd (Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.) and pointed gourd (Trichosanthes dioica Roxb.) in Birbhum district of West Bengal.
B Mondal, S Hansda, S K Ray, D C Khatua
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African Horned Melon (Cucumis metuliferus): Climate‐Resilient Crop and Gene Donor in the Breeding of Major Cucurbits

Plant Breeding, Volume 144, Issue 2, Page 159-181, April 2025.
ABSTRACT African horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus E. Meyer ex Naudin, 2n = 2x = 24) is an under‐researched and under‐utilised cucurbit crop primarily grown for its nutritious fruit. In its centre of diversity, the crop is valued for its relatively high tolerance to insect pests, diseases, drought and heat stress. It is a potential opportunity crop and
Olga Sebati, Hussein Shimelis, Jacob Mashilo   +2 more
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Characterization of ridge gourd (Luffa acutangula) germplasm accessions for qualitative and seed quality traits

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences
The study was carried out during summer seasons of 2021 and 2022 at ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi to evaluate 200 ridge gourd [Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb.] germplasm accessions from India’s national genebank for 14 ...
MONIKA JHA, CHITHRA DEVI PANDEY, PRAVEEN KUMAR SINGH, SUNIL ARCHAK, MANJUSHA VERMA   +4 more
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Responses to Livelihood Precarity in Dryland India: Diversifying Out of Agrarian Distress

Development and Change, Volume 55, Issue 6, Page 1289-1314, November 2024.
ABSTRACT Scholars of critical agrarian political economy see agriculture in liberalization‐era India as a form of disguised unemployment, part of wider agrarian distress. This article engages with literature differentiating the class/caste responses to agrarian and non‐farm livelihood distress in India to understand the different diversification ...
Ambarish Karamchedu
wiley   +1 more source