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Oil Palm ( Elaeis guineensis Jacq) a perennial oil yielding palm with maximum oil potential of 18 t /of palm oil /ha /yr and achievable yield of 8 to 12 t oil /ha/ yr has brought about a revolution in the global vegetable oil economy over the years. With humble production of 1.2 million tons in 1960 it reached 49.0 million tons by 2017 occupying first position and pushing soya bean to second place. India introduced oil palm at the same time as Malaysia started its commercial plantations but remained at the bottom with the yields at poor levels . This book on Oil Palm gives a historical back ground of the crop in the world as also in India, Indian efforts in the development of oil palm, issues and strategies in promoting oil palm development in the country, and the guidelines in the cultivation of oil palm. This book will be a very good guide for growing oil palm successfully and will inspire all those who are interested in Oil Palm cultivation, processing, value addition, organic recycling and also providing eco-friendly environment.

Fisheries tend to collapse because of fleet over-capacity, leading to harvesting the stocks of fish beyond their ability to recover. On the other hand, fish stocks may also be under-utilized because of fleet under-capacity. The fishery managers have to strike a balance by directly controlling the fishing capacity (input control) and/or by setting restrictions on the catch (output control). The key factor in the success of striking this balance is the application of fisheries management based on scientific advice coming from results of stock assessment models. This book entitled "Fish Population Dynamics and Stock Assessment" has been written to meet the requirements of graduate, post graduate students, researchers and scientists in fish stock assessment. Written in a textbook form, this book encompasses the knowledge of principles of stock assessment, sampling techniques, age determination, growth parameters, mortality parameters, gear selection, stock assessment models, fisheries management etc. If this book could help and guide the students and researchers, we shall feel amply rewarded. The book contains 16 chapters that have been explained very clearly with numerous illustrative examples, leaving no scope for confusion.

This book gives the general introduction about the historical evaluation of basic microbiology and food microbiology. The clear understanding on the intrinsic and extrinsic parameter associated with the bacteria growth explains in details. This book individually deal with the spoilage and pathogenic bacteria of chilled, frozen, cured, thermal processed and value added fishery products. The occurrence of indigenous and non-indigenous seafood-borne pathogen such as Vibrio spp., Listeria spp., Clostridium spp., Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., Staphylococcus spp., Escherichia coli. etc. This book also provides details on fungus, parasitic and viral pathogen associated with fish and fishery products. This book gives details on conventional and advance techniques involved in microbial analysis.

The present book entitled ""Fish in Nutrition"" comprises of eleven chapters which covers right from the nutritional composition of fish and shellfish to the effect of different cooking methods on nutritional composition of fish. It provides a detailed note on the macro and micro-nutrients present in fish and also the factors affecting their composition. This book will be highly useful for students of fisheries university and researchers pursuing careers in fisheries, food, nutrition and allied courses.

This book deals with the principles of fish preservation and traditional methods of fish preservation like salting, drying, smoking and fermented fish products. It also deals with the value added fish products like extruded fish based products and battered and breaded products.

Fish Diseases and Management focuses on the important diseases of commercially important cultivable finfish and shellfishes, their diagnosis and control measures. This book deals with the general information and significance of diseases in relation to aquaculture, host pathogen interaction, diseases development in fish and shellfish, stress and disease occurrence due to the water quality parameters. It also explains about the bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic pathogens and their relative significance to aquaculture. This book has separate sections dedicated on strategies for health management which deals with immune system of fish and shrimp, different types of vaccines and routes of application. Eco - friendly control measures like the use of diffrent types of immunostimulants and probiotics used in aquaculture are also discussed. This book will be a valuable resource for students, researchers, faculties, diagnosticians, fish pathologists, aquaculture technicians and microbiologists concerned with the management of diseases of fish and shellfish.

This book deals with the various practical problems on concepts based on Mendalian genetics such as monohybrid cross, incompletely dominant genes, lethal genes, dihybrid cross, heterosis in fish breeding, sex determination, inbreeding and effective breeding number, selection and heritability and gene and genotype frequency are given with solution and answers. It is also provides detailed protocol with explanation is also given for induction of Triploidy in fishes, Induction of Gynogenesis in fishes, Preparation of metaphase chromosomes from fish tissues, chromosome preparation from embryos, Cryopreservation of fish sperm and checking the fish sperm motility.

This book gives the general introduction about quality and quality parameters of fish and fishery products. This explains the quality and safety problem associated with seafood industry and their assessment. This book gives details on various standards applicable for export of fish and fishery products. The quality of affluent and treatment of effluent water of seafood Industry was explained with different mechanism. The concept of Total Quality Management in relation with HACCP concept and pre requisite program such as GMP and GHP explained with examples. This book gives importance of overall food safety and quality system through an adequate and appropriate understanding of the quality and safety parameters by all the stakeholders in the food chain.

This book consists of detail information on several biochemical techniques such as spectroscopic, chromatographic, and centrifugation methods involved in aquaculture and fisheries. This manual also provides basic information on molecular techniques, instruments and their applications involved in fisheries science. This shall help students and researchers to gain depth knowledge on the fundamentals of instrumentation.

As modern world is filled with digital technologies and the nature of reading, the pattern and level compression has changed a lot. The focus of education is shifted considerably from direct teaching to indirect teaching where learning receives maximum attention. Modern library environment has changed a lot due to the technology driven processes and practices. This transformation in teaching and library practices necessitates proper restructuring of library management and services. The increased teaching role of librarians is substantiated to cope up with the situation in order to provide effective services to the users. The articles included in this book are selected by peer review from the papers presented in the National Seminar on Teaching Role of Librarians organized by the College of Horticulture, Kerala Agricultural University (KAU), Thrissur, in collaboration with Academic Library Association (ALA) and Kerala Library Association (KLA) during 21-22 August 2015. We are hopeful that this book will be useful for library professionals, information users, students and users.

The present book entitled ""Aquaculture in Reservoirs"" deals with various fishery enhancement tools that can be used to improve the productivity and production of Indian reservoirs. Any fishery enhancement activity in a reservoir should be based on the morpho-edaphic factors of the reservoir. Keeping this requirement in view, the broad coverage on deployment of cage and pen culture methodologies to enhance fish production and use of advanced aquaculture practices were covered. Limnological profile of the major reservoirs and strategies to improve the fish production in these reservoirs were discussed in vivid . The status and potential for applying fisheries management at small, medium and large reservoirs are reviewed with reference to the revised syllabus based on the fifth Deans Committee and ICAR policies as well as the socioeconomic setting and possible alternatives for management systems. This book will be highly useful for students of fisheries university and researchers pursuing careers in fisheries and allied courses.

The present book "Nutrition at a Glance" is a compilation of latest information which provides an overview of concise information. The book contains 15 chapters which include an introduction, energy, water and its functions, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, vitamins, dietetics, human body organs and their disorders, dietary modifications, food science and technology, food additives, food irradiation and related miscellaneous facts. Glossary has been appended at the end for ready reference. This book is primarily designed for the student of nutrition and dietetics degree and also useful for the students of food science, medicine, pharmacy and nursing. Professionals in nutrition, dietetics, food science, health sciences and related areas will also find much of great value within this book.

The salt industry is world's one of the oldest industry, but there is no any technical book on salt production, especially on Solar Salt production. The book Salt: The Complete Reference is focused on solar salt production. This can help as field key, reference book and for technical guidance for salt manufacturer of all over the world. This book contains the collection of data from author's own experience, from various technical research papers and from various experienced people. The book contains manuscript with high resolution photographs, tables, charts, graphical representations and technical calculations. The content flow from the chemistry of Seawater and salt to detailed technical guidelines for construction of Salt works and up to Harvesting of Salt, etc. This book can be helpful as a handbook for solar Salt production operation, which will help to improve salt industries.

The present book is a step forward to capture current insight of animal husbandry practices in India. It takes a view on structural bottlenecks in the concerned government organizations of the state and central governments, perception of stakeholders including NGO's, innovation at international levels; and the issues to be addressed and the policy support required for the development of forage resources in the hilly as well as the plain agro-eco regions of the country. The book also takes into account organic/inorganic forage production technology, forage conservation and its utilization, mitigating natural calamities like drought and flood with emerging challenges of climate change and reducing availability of land. It also describes the potential use of forage in non-ruminants. The 11 chapters in this book are an attempt to provide a comprehensive approach to enhance forage resources and their utilization in the country. We Hope, this book will achieve the intended purpose to address the needs of today's researchers, students, policy makers and all the stakeholders of forage resource management and animal husbandry

This university level text book is written to serve as a ready reference for students of agricultural and civil engineering degree programs. It provides an explicit description of the theoretical concepts on groundwater, well hydraulics, well construction, water lifting devices, waterlogged soils, soil permeability measurement, equations for evaluating depth and spacing of drains, surface and subsurface drains, tube well drainage system, and salt affected soils. Fundamentals of Groundwater and Drainage Engineering, is a book for undergraduate as well as postgraduate students for refreshing their basic knowledge. It is especially useful for the students preparing for the examinations of ASRB and JRF.

The present book covers the latest development in the field of crop improvement which includes Use of crop wild relatives/Underutilized Plants, Diversification of Agriculture, Biofortification, Organic farming using Vermicompost, Peri-urban farming, Integrated pest management, Post harvest management, Value addition, 'Omic` approaches for improving crop production, Energy Sustainability, Advancement in bio-nanotechnology with Computational and Statistical tools, which address critical issue for agricultural sustainability for the benefit of researchers, policy makers and government agencies. An important strategy to overcome the challenges in providing food for the world population in a sustainable manner is through concerted efforts by crop scientists to embrace new technologies in increasing yield, quality and improving food safety while minimizing adverse environmental impact of the agricultural activities Thirty noted researchers currently working in crop improvement and related fields bring together the best thinking about achieving crop improvement-especially the development of new genetic combinations; to create a sustainable agriculture.

At first fleeting look, "Ethnomedicinal Plants: A Biodiversity Treasure" appears to be a medical compendium of plants intended as a guide and reference resource for professionals in the field. Anyone who picks up this book, it contains nuggets of information that would interest a great many readers, from school children to teachers, from undergraduates to researchers, from homemakers to business people and of course, the healthcare professionals. The aim of this book was to review the current status of ethnomedicinal plants research in light of the surge in the demand for herbal medicine. A great deal of information about the traditional uses of plants is still intact with tribal peoples. This book focuses on the ethnobotanical survey and ethnopharmacology of medicinal plants as a whole. The primary intention in writing such a book is to attract graduate students and spur their interests in medicinal plant research. As a result of teaching many undergraduate and graduate students about plant natural products in a wide range of plant biology courses, the need for a comprehensive yet thorough collection of information on what kinds of natural products plants produce, including why they produce them, became very apparent. The strength of this book are, the topics were carefully selected and user friendly for the serious reader or researcher. This book has added more to the existing discoveries of the relevance of plants and its usefulness in various ailments. Hope, this book will give impetus to the conservation of ethnopharmacologically useful plants.

New Directions for Evaluations: Visibility, Voice and Value is collection of writings of Evaluation of development programmes in both governmental and non-governmental settings. It has 13 papers on innovations, ethics and inclusion. The book is a collation of evaluation experience from across the world including fragile contexts. These writings distil the complexity of evaluation in different settings of development into clear, easy to understand learning papers. It gives the readers, development practitioners' insights to navigate and understand evaluation for a more evidence based programming focused on inclusion.

This festschrift volume is being brought out in honour of Prof. P. A. Shinde, University Librarian, MPKV, Rahuri. The volume is consisting of articles contributed by leading scholars in the field of library and information science from across the country. The volume deals with diversified aspects of Library and Information Science such as ICT in Agricultural Knowledge Management, Digital library, e-resource management, knowledge management, information literacy, Institutional repository, scientometrics and other related topics. It is hoped that this volume will be highly useful for those concerned in the field of Library and Information Science.

The book 'Life Style and Productivity Optimization for Paramedical Hospital Employees' focuses on portraying the various dimensions of paramedical health care. Nursing profession within the health care sector, focused on maintaining people's health and quality of life. This book emphasises the importance of nurses in health care industry and society. So taken this aspect into consideration, a study was conducted to explore the various activities performed by nurses and to ergonomically assess their working environment. The endeavour is to help academicians, researchers and the nurses comprehend and compliment this noble profession.

This book covers the syllabi offered by various Indian state agricultural and traditional universities at under and post graduate levels. It also covers the syllabi of JRF, SRF, ARS, NET and departmental competitive examinations in the concise manner. It includes several additional important topics like extensive history of plant breeding and developments; modes of reproduction and pollination; self-incompatibility and male sterility; domestication and PGR management; breeding methods for self, cross and asexually propagated crops; biometrics in plant breeding; wide hybridization; mutagenesis in plant breeding; heterosis and inbreeding depression; ideotype breeding; polyploidy and crop improvement; breeding for resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses; plant breeders, farmers rights and privileges; PPV & FR act 2001; participatory plant breeding; modern plant breeding strategies and other important breeding concepts.

The present book is covered in 3 parts comprising 27 chapters. The first part covers "Mendelian or classical genetics" in 11 chapters dealing with introduction to genetics, sources of genetic variation, heredity and environment, Mendelism, Chromosomal theory of inheritance, Exceptions to Mendelism [Multiple alleles, gene expression (action) on phenotypic level, Linkage of genes and crossing over], Sex determination and sex controlled inheritance. The second part covers "Molecular genetics" in 14 chapters which includes genetics, genetic material (DNA) and its molecular structure, changes in its structure (mutation), and replication of DNA; Gene expression at molecular level (transcription and translation), Regulation of gene expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, Gene manipulation techniques and applications. The last part covers "Genetic Statistics" which includes 2 chapters on the probability and Chi-square testing of discrete variable. This book on "Genetics" has been written to fulfill the hope and requirement of post-graduate students, teachers and of those intend to appear and pass the competitive examinations on All India basis like SRF, NET and ARS conducted by ASRB (ICAR), UGC and UPSC.

This book addresses all biotic constraints in plantation crops and innovative means to counter them. Cutting edge technologies on biological pest suppression, chemo-ecological approaches as well as neuropeptides are lucidly highlighted for all stakeholders in accomplishing higher and sustainable production. It will be a good guide for all undergraduate and post-graduate students, researchers, plantation mangers and officials from developmental agencies for the recent updates in pest management of plantation crops.

There has been unprecedented advancement in the field of veterinary public health in the last 10 years. The futuristic demand of society on the issues such as food safety and quality, healthy ecosystem to sustain the life, monitoring and surveillance of animal diseases, prevention and control of Zoonoses, National and International rules and regulations to facilitate international trade have posed challenges to veterinarians. That's why in newly structured course curricula and syllabi of VCI, all the aspects have been brought under the one umbrella i.e. Veterinary Public Health and Epidemiology. The informal discussion among the veterinary academicians and students over the years referred the need of a book comprising questions for the graduates of veterinary science aspiring for higher education and competitive examination. The author has attempted to cover some significant aspects of veterinary public health. This book is the compilation of various types of objective questions on Veterinary Public Health. It comprises of 4 chapters viz. Veterinary Public Health and Food Hygiene, Milk Hygiene, Meat Hygiene and Environmental Hygiene along with their answer key in the last. The questions have been designed to reflect the present day need and trend in veterinary education in the form of fill in blanks, true false statements, multiple choice and matching questions. The author has taken great care to confirm the accuracy of information presented in this book.

This book contains most suitable procedure of laboratory techniques. It describes the basic laboratory rules, equipment and instrumentation, basic concepts, types of stock standard solutions, equivalent concentration, normality, normal solution, molar solution, molal solution, percent solution, parts per million (ppm), various types of buffer solutions, pH, spectrophotometry, atomic absorption spectrophotometry, chromatography viz. paper chromatography, thin layer chromatography (TLC), gas chromatography (GC), liquid chromatography (LC), gas-liquid chromatography (GLC), high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), polymerase chain reaction (PCR), scanning electron microscope (SEM), radiation, enzyme assays and radioactivity and related calculations. These equipment and instruments are commonly used in practical laboratory. Important references have been also cited for detailed reading. It is hoped that the book is quite useful for students, teachers, researchers, biochemists, chemist, food chemist and person engaged in various laboratories.

Human Resource Management is the process of proper and maximise utilisation of available limited skilled workforce. The core purpose of the HRM is to make efficient use of existing human resources in the organisation. ABM applied business theories and practices to the agricultural industry for lower costs, boost profits and ensure that farm or food products are grown and distributed effectively. The present book entitled "HRM in Agri-Business" comprises of eleven chapters. Efforts have been made to incorporate information on introduction to human resources management, introduction to human resource planning, human resources and business growth, career planning, training and development, agri-business planning, HRM in Agri-business expansion, agri-business financial management, working capital management in agri-business, agri-business capital budgeting compensation management and HRM training. Detailed glossary of important terms are provided at the end of each chapter will enable the readers to update their knowledge. It is hoped that the book is quite useful for students, teachers and researchers of management, commerce, economics, agri-business management, policy makers and people having concern for HRM and agri-business management.

Extension worker is the key person in transfer of technology to social system. The social system is complex in nature. The farmers are differing in their sociological and cultural aspects namely settlement pattern, class, customs, conventions, rituals, norms, values, mores, taboos etc. The social settings and farmers sociological aspects are differ from village to village and region to region. Farmers are having different opinion, attitude and perception towards the technology and technology transfer system based on their past experience. Studying the farmer's sociological and psychological characteristics is very much needed in technology transfer process. Technology transfer programme / plan should be based on the sociological and psychological aspects of farmers. This book deals with the basic sociological and psychological aspects of rural people and will be useful for undergraduate students of agriculture and allied subjects.

Capability for innovation can be developed through a dynamic process involving various stakeholders such as governments, academic and research institutions, and industry with the help of a combination of schemes and programmes for R&D, technology transfer and commercialisation, and for the development of new technology-based industry; backed up by adequate support facilities and suitable institutional mechanisms. The important factors for successful commercialisation of technology include S&T capability, market demand and an agent (an Entrepreneur) which transforms this capability into goods and services, to satisfy such demand. For the technological self reliance, developing countries should encourage academic and research institutions to undertake activities on technology transfer and commercialisation through appropriate policy decisions with greater flexibility wherever required. To deliberate on various issues concerning the technology transfer and its commercialisation, the NAM S&T Centre, in partnership with the Pardis Technology Park (PTP), Tehran, Iran organised an International Training Workshop on 'Commercialisation of Technology' during 23-26 May 2016 at PTP, which brought the scientists, experts and professionals engaged in R&D, policy making and implementation to a common platform for re-assessing and up-gradation of their skills and sharing views and experiences in the transfer and commercialisation of technology. The Tehran Training Workshop was attended by 26 senior professionals from 20 NAM countries, including Cambodia, Cuba, Ghana, India, Iraq, Kenya, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Togo, Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe and the host country Iran. The present book edited by Ms. Sheikha Al Akhzami, Acting Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department at Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman is a follow up of the above Training Workshop and comprises 14 papers by the authors from 9 countries covering several important issues related to commercialisation of technologies. The book will be useful to policy makers, researchers, academicians and other professionals involved with various aspects of technology development and its commercialisation across the countries with emerging economies.

Biodiversity includes different animals, plants, micro-organisms and their genes, water ecosystems, terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Conservation of this biological diversity which includes the variety of the whole species present on earth is important for our future, for human food to feed people on Earth. Biodiversity: Monitoring, Management & Utilization has been designed primarily for students studying biodiversity on a range of courses in botany, zoology, biotechnology, microbiology, environment and ecology. It is beneficial for teachers, as well as generalists and amateurs interested in exploring the fundamentals, uses, threats and conservation of biodiversity. It is also essential reading for anyone requiring an overview of the vast literature on this topic. This volume contains several contributions that illustrate the state of the art of the academic research in the field of biological interactions in its widest sense. The purpose is to increase understanding, awareness and appreciation of the diverse values of biodiversity, necessary to create the willingness to undertake the behavioural changes required to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity. The book has managed to present most of the critical issues surrounding debates over and relations between biodiversity, biotechnology, intellectual property and traditional knowledge. It underscores the ways in which our future is tied to that of Earth's threatened species and demonstrates exactly why conservation is so vitally important for us.