A K Srivastava
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Mastitis, although not a new problem, is associated with huge economic loss to the farmers and the country. In India, on one hand while milk productivity is increasing the incidence of mastitis is also increasing on the other hand. The factors like herd size, agro-climatic conditions, variations in socio-cultural practices, milk marketing, literacy level of animal owner, system of feeding, and management were implicated in the incidence of subclinical mastitis. ...
Kinnow Mandarin is one of those introduced commercial citrus cultivars of India which has revolutionised the Citriculture scenario in northwest India. Ever since is introduction in 1960s, several efforts have been made to strengthen the information pertaining to different aspects of Kinnow cultivation. But none of the available literatures provides a complete, comprehensive and up-to-date account of Kinnow. Scientists from National Research Centre for Citrus at ...
Toxicology is the branch of science which deals with the study of poisons, including their physicochemical properties and adverse effects on living systems, either animal, plant or microbe, diagnosis and treatment of the effects of toxicants on intoxicated organism. The term toxicology is derived from Greek word ‘Toxikon’ meaning toxic substance and logos meaning study hence it is the study of toxic effects of chemicals and other substances on living ...
The phenomenal growth of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) at both international and national levels is due to the changing attitude of donor agencies about development assistance and the increased demand for NGO services in Third World countries. NGOs are non-membership support organizations involved in relief, rehabilitation, or community development work in developed and, especially, developing or Third World countries. In most Third World countries ...
Environmental pollution has become first rank problem of modern society and requires more and more precise work to be done for solving it. Contributions included in the book focus light on related problems. The book is a collection of papers/reviews on environment written by eminent experts in the field. Various aspects of environmental sciences like nature conservation, environmental protection, impact of industrial and sewage effluents on aquatic ecosystem, ...
This book incorporates the extensive and updated basic information on the bovine mastitis by the scientists of national and international repute to understand the various concepts of bovine mastitis. Mastitis has been one of the most studied diseases of the dairy animals in recent decades. The losses due to mastitis are not only economic, but also issues such as animal health and welfare, quality of milk and milk products, antibiotic uses and its residues in milk ...
The present book provides material on all aspect of practical agrometeorology of data acquisition techniques, instruments and method of observations with precautions and solved examples.
Written in a simple and lucid manner the book contains very useful and detailed information on practical aspects of agromet observatory and covers all major practical aspects of agromet observatory.
Highlights of the book are:
Is prepared with a series of pictures that illustrate ...
Volume Title:Pt. 1. Health and body; Pt. 2. Health and diet; Pt. 3. Health and exercise; Pt. 4. Health and fitness; Pt. 5. Health and yoga.
The present book discusses all the aspects of Health Education and Yoga. It is specially intended for the students of Physical Education and Sports Sciences. The present book will be useful for the students of Physical Education and its related fields, prospective Yoga Teachers and Instructors, and for the general readers etc.
`Medicinal Plants' are an essential part of traditional health care systems. Their gathering and cultivation provide a critical source of income for many rural communities, especially landless poor and marginalized farmers. They are also inextricably linked to the region's natural biodiversity. Unfortunately, they are increasingly threatened by various environmental, socio-economic and institutional problems.At the same time traditional and indigenous ...
The essence of successful citriculture is the quality of soil and associated climate in which citrus grows. Climatic analogues and promising soil types depending upon cultivar preference for various requirements of citrus have proved to be the premier issues of commercial cultivation. The book Citrus : Climate and Soil focuses on various core problems exclusively across six continents through seven highly elusive chapters with 2500 relevant citations. The ...
"Gender asymmetry is a universal fact of life. In many societies across the world, women are discriminated against by law and by customs, rendering them among the vulnerable and disadvantaged social groups. Feminism, being obliquely an effect of the darker side of modernity, cannot, within this civilization, realize the truth except by struggling against modernity itself which is its matrix. While gender is at the centre, the issues discussed in this volume ...
Citrus Nutrition has been the subject of exclusive investigation worldover during the last 50 years or so, effectively. Resultantly, innumerable technologies came into practice in many commercial citrus orchards, needless to elucidate the consequences of these. However in the light of changing global environment and consequent upon them, the newly emerging nutritional problems made citrus nutrition, a more popular and burning issue with regard to sustaining the ...
The “Advances in Citriculture†brings you a wealth of information catalogued chronologically the advances made in global citriculture on 29 subject areas of major importance to Citrus Growers. Scientists, Students, Planners, and Administrators. A team of national and internationally renowned citrus experts presenting an inclusive analysis of different core issues right from the history of citrus cultivation to post-harvest management including the use of ...
The objectives of this presentation is to reassessing the environmental assessment of India and with a hope that this will be helpful into chart a course for improving environmental quality in India in coming decade, particularly over the period covered by the government's five year plan, who are directly engaged in day to day struggle to achieve environmentally sustainable development and have first hand knowledge of the situation and challenges on the ground. ...
This book sets out the actions that could transform the lives of hundreds of millions of people, in particular the poor people and make a planet a better and safer place for our children and their children. It spells out what needs to be done to achieve key targets for national development. Following a series of summit meetings held by the apex international organisations over the past twenty years, the developmental targets have been agreed by all the ...
India, the largest democratic republican country in the world, possesses 2.4 percent of the world's land and more than 16 percent its population. Every year it adds 16 billion people to its large base of population, mostly in rural areas. It has already been crossed the population of one billion in the recent past years. Around 75 percent of the population live in rural areas, in about 5.5 lakh villages, several of them located remotely or isolately with poor or ...
This book is primarily meant for stress management practitioners and stress researchers. However, it would prove equally useful also to individual employees and general readers. Though the main emphasis of the book is on management of occupational stress and consequent strains, in the interest of general readers, it provides basic information on the concept, sources and consequences of occupational stress in separate sections. Though various techniques of stress ...
An attempt has been made to picture the conditions under which English in all its phases was taught in high schools, colleges and academies fifty years ago and how those conditions slowly changed through the years up to the present. The book further attempts to forecast the conditions that seem likely to face English teachers. Many new methods of teaching English have been added which are based on recent researchers. Apart from this the use of educational ...
