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Cereals are the major sources of energy and provide proteins, dietary fibre, minerals, vitamins and other nutritional factors to the human beings. Among cereals, wheat, barley, rice and maize are the major sources of food and feed. There are large numbers of cereal based products being consumed across the world all of which have specific quality requirements. In addition cereals have been explored for their use in several industrial applications such as bio-fuels ...
This book explores the feasible methods of resource mobilization for a developing economy like India for the purpose of development that lies in the instrument of additional taxation measures. The book looks into the issues of fiscal anomalies of state's taxation from a broader perspective. An attempt is made in this work to apply six indicators to assess and to ascertain the efficacy of the state's tax system. The indicators are: buoyancy and elasticity, the ...
This book explores the existing pattern of allocation of financial resources between the union of India and its constituent units that have generated imbalances between the revenue capacities and the needs of the states much to the disadvantage of the backward states of India. In this particular context, the book makes a successful attempt at enquiring into the nature, causes and dimensions of such maladjustments and imbalances, taking north-eastern region as a ...
Soil is a wonderful gift of nature to humankind, but limited, non-renewable and non elastic resource. Past decades witnessed a considerable shrinkage in the soil due to unscrupulous increase in the urbanization and industrialization. Agricultural technologies that led to Green Revolution resulted in the degradation of this precious natural resource owing to over exploitation under intensive farming coupled with mis-management. The soil quality has under gone as ...