Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth

Indian Pomegranate Exports: Production, Residue Compliance, Quality and Market Constraints

India is a major producer of pomegranate, yet only a small proportion of its production enters international markets, indicating a persistent gap between production capacity and export performance. This review synthesizes evidence on the production, fruit quality, pesticide use,...

Drying Kinetics, Effective Moisture Diffusivity, and Thermodynamic Analysis of Banana Slices Under Potassium Metabisulfite (KMS) Pretreatment

The present study investigates the effect of drying temperature and potassium metabisulfite (KMS) pretreatment on the drying kinetics, effective moisture diffusivity, activation energy, thermodynamic properties, and thin-layer drying-model performance of green banana slices. Bana...

AgroGuard AI: A Zero-Shot Multimodal Crop Disease Diagnostic Assistant for Smallholder Farming

Smallholder farmers in India frequently incur avoidableagricultural input costs due to non-diagnostic decisionmaking — replicating a neighboring farmer’s treatment schedule or acting on retailer-driven upselling —rather than an actual, verified assessment of their crop’shealth, a...

AgroGuard AI: A Zero-Shot Multimodal Crop Disease Diagnostic Assistant for Smallholder Farming

Smallholder farmers in India frequently incur avoidableagricultural input costs due to non-diagnostic decisionmaking — replicating a neighboring farmer’s treatment schedule or acting on retailer-driven upselling —rather than an actual, verified assessment of their crop’shealth, a...

AgroGuard AI: A Zero-Shot Multimodal Crop Disease Diagnostic Assistant for Smallholder Farming

Smallholder farmers in India frequently incur avoidable agricultural input costs due to non-diagnostic decision- making — replicating a neighboring farmer’s treat- ment schedule or acting on retailer-driven upselling — rather than an actual, verified assessment of their crop’s he...

AgroGuard AI: A Zero-Shot Multimodal Crop Disease Diagnostic Assistant for Smallholder Farming

Smallholder farmers in India frequently incur avoidable agricultural input costs due to non-diagnostic decision- making — replicating a neighboring farmer’s treat- ment schedule or acting on retailer-driven upselling — rather than an actual, verified assessment of their crop’s he...