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By the time the variety starts deteriorating due to biotic and abiotic stresses. It has also been realized that the growing demand of seed cane of newly released varieties cannot be fulfilled timely by the conventional methods of plant multiplication. Therefore, the use and exploitation of new biotechniques are quite essential for faster multiplication of newly released varieties. Micro-propagation is currently the only realistic means of achieving rapid and ...
Global warming and climate change is the gravest concern of mankind in 21 century. Horticulture, in India with approximately 30% contribution in agricultural GDP from only 8% of cultivated land is threatened with serious consequences in production, quality and processing and increased cost of plant protection. The knowledge about the impact of climate change on horticultural crops is limited. Addressing problems of climate change is more challenging in ...
The book is an exciting story of how technology has revolutionized the education and training of visually impaired people. Blindness has served to give birth to many miseries and myth about the incapacity of visually impaired. The book explores this myth and give a comprehensive international perspective of technological development which has greatly enhanced the functional ability of visually impaired people. The book also presents the present scenario in India ...
The authors have made an extensive study of urban land uses of metropolitan Bhopal. The study examines various categories of land uses as they exist today and suggests a plan of development for future. The Indian city, however, has its own peculiar structure which cannot be tested on theories evolved for western cities. The book is a significant contribution in the field of urban geography, particularly in urban land use studies and city planning. Well ...
Volume I: Soil Analysis is consists of 20 chapters, describing the methods to analyse various types of soil properties. The book is divided into three sections: General, Physio-chemical properties and soil microbiology. It provides complete information for soil analysis in simple and lucid language. The figures/illustrations have been given at appropriate places in text. It will prove very useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students and teaching for class ...
This book is chronicle of the steps that have been visualized and initiated by the Government of India in the recent years. It is a compilation and collation of the information made available by numerous agencies like National Institutions, Planning Commission, prominent NGOs working in the disability sector, Ministries of Health and Family Welfare and Human Resource Development. On certain occasion, it has been felt at various levels in the government and ...
In keeping with India’s Philosophy of ‘Vasudhev Kutumbkamb’ which literally means’ the world is one family’ a new chapter of co-operation in the sphere f disability started with the International Conference on Human Resource Development. India has been following the shifts in international understanding in field of special education and rehabilitation. All over the world there are deep concerns which have engaged the attention of scientists, doctors, ...
Our knowledge of the Indian woman continues to be quite inadequate and in some ways superficial, too. The fact that issues relating to women are quite vast and of bewildering complexity has greatly hampered our understanding of the womenfolk. Keeping this fact in view, experts from different branches of humanities and social sciences have attempted to focus on certain key issues concerning the Indian woman from the perspective of their own discipline. The book is ...