This book covers all technologies, developments, and innovations for the manure treatment to explore various strategies for nutrient recovery as well as energy production around the globe.
Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior.
India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred.
On the basis of systematically summarizing and sorting out the significant achievements made since China's rural reform, this book comprehensively explains the theoretical basis, principles and strategies of the road to rural revitalization of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Panditji Jawaharlal Nehru was noted to quote ';Everything else can wait but not agriculture' which shows the deep knowledge he possessed regarding agriculture.
This manual will be helpful for the scientific community and researchers as the concept of genomic research in cattle has been particularly described vividly which will be helpful for them in applying new sequencing and mapping technologies in the field of research on cattle.
Forestry is a broad subject which deals on multidisciplinary aspects like silviculture, forest soils, properties of soils, forests policies, forest law, botany of tree species, surveying protection, logging which includes felling and conversion, transport, storage, mensuration, grading timber etc.
Objective To present to the international gathering of specialists comprehensive information about the constraints under which the small farmer livestock production goes on and how India managed and managing to improve the same via policy, programmes and practices.
The book is designed for the under graduate and post graduate students of Agriculture, Horticulture, Scientists, Researchers, Extension Personals of Farm Universities, Line Departments of Agriculture, Horticulture and Farmers.
National security, nutritional security, environmental security and energy security are inter-related and energy security at present has become a national issue.
This book is written by keeping in mind the ICT progress in horticulture crops it will cater the need of the original research material n the horticulture crops.
The Book will be found of great value to the practical agriculturist as well as to the scientific investigator, who looks or should look, farther afield.
Bamboo is considered one of the most sustainable and versatile building materials, driving the development of multiple techniques for its study and utilization.
This book is an attempt to compile different aspects of citrus pathology to provide an overall knowledge to those who are interested in it, so that they may identify the bottlenecks to improve it further.
The book Remote Sensing Applications in Brackish Water Fisheries: A Socio-Economie Study, accounts for an unique case where socio-economic inputs, integrated with remote sensing data, were attempted for development for the marginalised groups in country side.
Asia grows most of the world's rice output and 90 per cent of rice is produced by small farmers who depend on it for their livelihood and food security.
The present book is an attempt to understand the prospect of Seed Industry in India, approaches in Seed Quality Control and Policy issues in seed sector in a very comprehensive way.
This book contains forty one chapters which have further been grouped into twelve thematic areas (Insight into commercial agriculture, Mechanization for breaking barriers, Production management agro-techniques, Balancing nutrition, Managing water - the vital input, Combating pests, weeds and insects, Resource conservation, Alternate agro-enterprises, Livestock based farming systems, Harnessing advanced technologies, Promoting agro-industry and Socio-economic and climatic facets) for systematic and easy understanding of the subject.
The book discusses the immediate outcome of recent reforms in the irrigation sector in Andhra Pradesh in India and critically evaluates the emerging trends.
To probe the clues behind the longest lived Left Front Government in West Bengal in general and its strong hold in rural West Bengal in particular the book has examined the State's agricultural performance for the period 1957-58 to 1994-95.
This book, based on field research undertaken in the agriculture belts of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, provides a synthesis picture of development, urbanization and pollution in India.
This volume presents a unique interdisciplinary assembly of thoughts in which agricultural scientists, fisheries scientists, forestry experts, alternative medicine systems experts, environmental and resource economists, geographers, ecologists, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, physicists, biologists, botanists, environmental engineers, environmental advocates and philosophers, journalists and environmental policy analysts have addressed their tasks focusing on institutions as a crosscutting theme in their writings on sustainable use of common pool resources (CPRs).
In the modern medicine also plants occupy a very significant birth as a raw materials for some important drugs, although synthetic drugs and antibiotics brought about a revolution in controlling different diseases.
Agronomy deals with all aspects of soil, water and crop management to increase the productivity in space and time and has made it possible to generate appropriate technologies for varied agro-climatic situations.
The book is divided into seven parts of introduction to management, agribusiness, functions of management, functional areas of management, Management Information System, Getting started, Government Policies and Programs for management.
Food, Gastronomy, Sustainability, and Social and Cultural Development analyzes the relationship between gastronomy and sustainability from a sociocultural perspective.
Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 94, the latest release in this series that highlights new advances in the field, presents interesting content written by an international board of authors.
Forest gardening is a way of working with nature which is not only productive and requires minimal maintenance, but also has fantastic environmental benefits.