AMA, Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America
AMA, Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America (AMA) (issn: 00845841) is a peer reviewed journal first published online after indexing scopus in 1982. AMA is published by Farm Machinery Industrial Research Corp and Shin-Norinsha Co. AMA publishes every subjects of general engineering and agricultural engineering.
WOS Indexed (2026)
30 Jun 2026 (Vol - 57 , Issue- 07 )
31 Jul 2026 (Vol - 57 , Issue 07 )
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AMA, Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America
AMA, Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America (ISSN: 00845841) is a peer-reviewed journal. The journal covers Agricultural and Biological Sciences and all sort of engineering topic. the journal's scopes are in the following fields but not limited to:
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Electrical Engineering and Telecommunication
Electronic Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Civil and architectural engineering
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Transportation Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Industrial and Commercial Design
Information Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Food Engineering
In silico Prediction of Antiviral Activity of Andrographis paniculata Against NDV2K35 strain of Newcastle Disease Virus
The present study focused on molecular docking analysis of active principles of Andrographis paniculata with NDV2K35 proteins, a strain of Newcastle disease virus. The 3D structures of NDV2K35 proteins (receptors) viz. Haemagglutin-Neuraminidase protein (HN), Fusion protein (F), Matrix protein (M), Phosphoprotein (P), Large polymerase protein (L) and Nucleocapsid protein (N) were downloaded from Uniprot database, modelled using Swiss model analysis and validated by RAMPAGE: Ramachandran plot analysis. The active principles of Andrographis paniculata (ligands) viz. andrographolide, neoandrographolide and 14-deoxyandrographolide were downloaded from PUBCHEM, a database for chemical molecules. The docking analysis was carried out using Accelrys Discovery Studio 4.0 Client software. The results revealed that andrographolide interacted with all except M protein. The dock score of neoandrographolide was more than andrographolide with all the proteins but it failed to interact with F and M protein. The compound 14-deoxyandrographolide interacted with all proteins except F protein but the dock scores were comparatively less. The active principles were further screened for in silico pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties using Swiss ADME, a standard online tool and PASS online server. The active principles exhibited good GI absorption with bioavailability of 55 % and acted as substrate for p-gp. Of the three, neoandrographolide inhibited CYP3A4 which indicates the possibility for drug interactions. Toxicity analysis showed comparatively higher toxicity for neoandrographolide. Thus, andrographolide can be considered as a better choice for developing antiviral drug against Newcastle disease virus. However, the synergistic effect of all the three may possess better antiviral activity in vivo and needs further study.
Enhancing lentil yield and income of farmers through cluster frontline demonstration in Bundelkhand
Studies were conducted in the villages of Chachawali in the Niwari district of the rainfed Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh during 2020–21; Anora in the Lalitpur district, and Semra and Bilati Karke in the Jhansi district of the rainfed Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh from 2021–22. There were 15 front-line demonstrations in Chachawali, Anora, Semra, and Bilati Karke villages of the lentil variety IPL 316: five in Chachawali, five in Anora, two in Semra, and three in Bilati Karke. Each farmer had the opportunity to participate in a demonstration on a one-hectare plot of land. The goal was to improve lentil cultivation technology. Improved technologies included, among other things, high yielding variety, balanced fertilizer use (based on soil tests), and integrated disease and pest management. Chachawali, Anora, Bilati Karke, and Semra villages, in that order, got an average of 1235, 1285, 1408.33, and 1462.5 kg ha-1 from the demonstrations. There was an increase of 27.58, 23.58, 15.84, and 27.37% over the local yield. The average extension gap in Chachawali, Anora, Semra and Bilati Karke village was 2.65, 2.45, 3.13, and 1.92 q/ha, respectively, while the technology gap were 2.45, 2.15, 0.38, and 0.92q/ha, with the technology index being 16.33, 14.33, 2.5, and 6.11 percent in that order. The case study produced an average net return of Rs. 22525.9, 30112.0, 30247.0, and 3565.0 from the villages of Semra, Chachawali, Anora, and Bilati Karke, in that order, while the mean B:C ratio was 1.3, 2.1, 2.0 and 2.2. The data showed that superior varieties, packaging, and processing used in the frontline demonstration programme have contributed to increase in pulse productivity and profitability in the region.
PSV 512: A New High Yielding Dual Purpose, Early Duration Sorghum Variety PSV 512 for Telangana
The Sorghum culture PSV 512 (CSV 15 x SF 94006) recorded grain yield of 3586.6 kg/ha and fodder yield of 9198 kg/ha with superiority of 21.03 % and 7.86 % over the check PSV 1. The entry was also tested in All India level of AICRP testing with grain yield of 3349.4 kg/ha with superiority of 16.72%, 6.98 %, 21.02 %, 15.25 % over national checks of CSV 17, CSV 20, CSV 23 and CSV 27. It is early maturing variety (104 days) with semi compact symmetric panicle and grains are elliptic shaped with Grey-yellow colour endosperm. It is moderately resistance to shoot fly and stem borer pests and moderately resistant to grain mold disease. This entry is having higher consumer preference due to its low fat content in grains (2.81) and protein content of 10.81%. Hence, the promising culture PSV 512 has been proposed for new release during 2021 and released as Palem Jonna 1 for general cultivation in Telangana for both rainfed and irrigated condition.
Spatio-Temporal change detection Over a Decade in Panchkula District of Haryana, India
Geospatial technology provides economic, generic and detailed Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) products. Multi-date LULC products opportunitate change detection. Decadal temporality exposes patterns and trends of the settlement growth, infrastructure developments, forest cover change and agricultural land use. Study was done to evaluate LULC changes in Panchkula district of Haryana from 2010 to 2020. Quantification of spatial and temporal dynamics of land use/cover changes was accomplished over supervised classification of time series satellite images of IRS-P6 LISS-III for 2010 and Sentinel-2 (A & B) MSI for 2020 by applying post-classification change detection techniques in the GIS environment. Expansion of land cover was observed for built-up, water bodies and agriculture while reduction for wastelands, forest and grazing lands. Economic development due to Chandigarh region, micro-climate change in lower Shivalik and population increment were analyzed responsible for the detected change. Biophysically low-quality land parcels were marginalized without obtaining optimum economic marginality. High urban sprawl rate and deforestation highly impacted soil and environment resulting in degradation of habitat quality. This study illustrates the change over a decade from 2010 to 2020 covering the whole district of Panchkula, Haryana.
Physical and functional properties of Indian indica subset of 3k rice germplasm
Half the world's population relies on rice (Oryza sativa L.) as their primary source of nutrition. The quality of the rice grain is incredibly valuable to breeders, farmers, and consumers as the population grows and the variety of needs for rice expands. The milling, aesthetic, eating, cooking, and nutritional properties of rice grains are the four most important aspects of rice quality. In the present study out of 250 lines, 80 lines fell under long bold grain type, 73 lines fell under medium slender grain type, 65 lines fell under short slender grain type, 23 lines fell under long slender grain type, and 9 lines under short bold grain type. Among 250 3K lines the alkali spreading score was ranged from 3 (low, intermediate spreading) to 6 (High alkali spreading or low GT), as per the classification, 8 lines fell under low to intermediate alkali spreading, while 120 lines showed intermediate spreading (intermediate GT) and majority of the lines (122 lines) was observed to have high alkali spreading value or low GT. Therefore, from the study it can be concluded that 110 3K rice lines presented good physical traits like grain length, gel consistency and alkaline spread ratio.