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From the preface: The present edited book “An Abridgement of Extension Education” is such a book which has been fabricated in a manner that does not contain routine detailed topics but concepts of various subjects have been given in nutshell. The idea of bringing out such an edition was to enable the youngsters and all those who are interested to go through and quickly understand the concepts which are of use in different situations.
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Contents: 1. The earth and atmosphere. 2. Air temperature. 3. Atmospheric pressure and wind. 4. Atmosphere moisture. 5. Atmospheric condensation and precipitation. 6. Classification of climates. 7. Weather forecasting. 8. Agrometeorology. 9. Net radiation and its estimation. 10. Micrometeorology. 11. Heat unit concept. 12. Evapo transpiration. 13. Weather hazards. 14. Agrometeorological forecast. 15. Rainfall climatology. 16. Remote sensing techniques in ...
Contents: 1. History of microbiology. 2. Metabolism in bacteria: ATP generation. 3. Chemoautotrophy and photoautotrophy. 4. Respiration in bacteria. 5. Bacteriophages. 6. Viroids and prions. 7. Bacterial genetics. 8. Genetic recombination. 9. Genetic engineering. 10. Plasmids and episomes. 11. Genetically modified organisms (GMO). 12. Soil microbiology. 13. Microbial transformation of carbon. 14. Microbial transformation of nitrogen and biological nitrogen ...
Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Seed physiology. 3. Seed viability and vigour. 4. Growth and development. 5. Crop water relations. 6. How do materials pass through membranes?. 7. Absorption of water and mineral elements by plants. 8. The ascent of sap. 9. Organic transport in plants. 10. Transpiration. 11. Photosynthesis: introduction. 12. Photosynthetic apparatus: chloroplast. 13. Photosystems in chloroplast. 14. Photoionization and photophosphorylation. 5. Path ...
Contents: 1. Propagation and planting method of ginger and turmeric. 2. Processing of turmeric, ginger and black pepper. 3. Selection of mother palm and seed nuts in coconut and oil palm. 4. Products and byproducts of spices and plantation crops. 5. Methods of oleoresin extraction using Chilli. 6. Extraction technologies of aromatic oils. 7. Training methods on betelvine. 8. Rejuvenation practices in cashew nut. 9. Harvesting methods of aromatic plants. 10. ...
Indian media consists of several different types of communications: Television, Radio, Cinema, Newspapers, Magazines and Internet-based Web sites/portals. Farm journalism covers a wide range of crops (commercial and subsistence) and farm and household management themes. The book has been prepared with the aim that it will provide up-dated knowledge to the farmers, extension workers and policy planners. The book is self-supporting source of information and is ...
Since the inception of agriculture, at early stage we were using natural resources for sustainability and quality produce. But with the passage of time and need of the day we have turned ourselves to adopt such a technology in agriculture which may be sufficient enough to feed the millennium mouth. It’s a matter of chance that on one side we have been able to feed the millennium but lacking behind lot of problems which is not easily curable because it has ...
