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This book deals comprehensively in all important aspects of animal genetics and breeding, nutrition and livestock management. In this book I don't pretend to claim credit for any original contribution on the subject rather than it should be viewed as a concise collection of various important topics. This book has been divided into 3 sections dealing with animal genetics and breeding, animal nutrition, livestock production and management, respectively.

The foremost objective of this book is to help the students of B.Sc., M.Sc. for JRF, SRF, ICAR NET, UGC NET, ARS, other competitive examination related to subject to quickly grasp the facts comprehensively. Present book is a collection and compilation work from various sources and has been endeavoured to include as much information as could be possible. It is realized that the coverage of material in this book is likely to be far from complete as the information available in the Agricultural Economics is enormous. In present book, we have covered multiple choice questions, contributions of economists, glossary of each sub subject of economics and abbreviations to success with limited time in various competitive examinations.

The present book has been planned with 19 chapters specified by the authors on recent techniques on bio-intensive integrated approaches of horticultural pest's management. The book attempt to made compile information's on non-chemical ways of pest management strategies including from agronomic approaches to physical, mechanical, biopesticides, biocontrol agents, biorational pesticides etc. which are non harmful to environment and economically viable. This book can be useful reference material for organic product producing farmers, researchers and students who are involving bio-intensive pest management strategies.

This textbook 'Fundamentals of Horticulture' is written as per the syllabus of B.Sc. (Hons.) Horticulture recommended by the Fifth Deans' Committee of ICAR. It covers the entire syllabus including scope and importance, classification, role of fruits and vegetables in human nutrition, economic geography of horticulture, nursery techniques and their management, soil and climate, gardening, orchard management, planting system and density, training and pruning, growth regulators, management of water, weed and fertility; cropping systems, mulching, bearing habit, rejuvenation of orchards, and organic farming. Simple and lucid language has been used for easy understanding of the beginners. The book is illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Questions are set at the end of each chapter to assess the understanding of the students. Though the book is primarily written for B.Sc. (Hons.) Horticulture students, the counterparts of B.Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture also may be benefitted. It may serve as a help book for post-graduate students.

The 2nd fully revised and expanded edition of the book Question Bank in Postharvest Technology has been fully updated with adequate number of MCQ's, Fill in The Blanks, Match the Followings and Glossary on the topic.With more than 1500 MCQs, 500 Fill in the Blanks and 300 match the Followings specifically on PST make the books a worth enough for every student.The 2nd fully revised and expanded edition of the book Question Bank in Postharvest Technology has been fully updated with adequate number of MCQ's, Fill in The Blanks, Match the Followings and Glossary on the topic.With more than 1500 MCQs, 500 Fill in the Blanks and 300 match the Followings specifically on PST make the books a worth enough for every student.

The content of book includes all major aspects of biomass production and efficient utilization for energy generation. Most of the information presented in this book reflects a basis to acquire the understanding of the proper utilization of biomass for heat and power generation. In this book, design criteria, present state of art of technology and future perspective of clean energy are illustrated through graphs, figures, tables, flowcharts. equation etc. to make subject more clear and useful.

This book is to provide in-depth information on fundamentals of different renewable energy resources. In this textbook, the primary emphasis is on fundamentals of thermodynamics and heat transfer aspects of renewable energy gadgets and their actual applications. Various renewable energy systems are described and their fundamental analyses are described.This book contained seventeen chapters and provides state of art of renewable energy systems and their applications. The opening chapter of this book highlighted the different energy sources and current renewable energy scenario in India. Energy and exergy analysis approach iscovered in second chapter. Subsequent chapters cover the heat transfer, solar radiation computation solar thermal, solar drying and photovoltaic, heating and cooling of building, bioenergy, hydro power, OTEC, MHD, and energy economic assessment. Solved numerical problem in relevant chapter are also included for better understanding.This book will be valuable to undergraduate and post graduate engineering students, researchers, and others interested in the field of renewable energy.

This book is a platform for anyone who wishes to explore Artificial Intelligence in the field of agriculture from scratch or broaden their understanding and its uses. This book offers a practical, hands-on exploration of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, deep Learning, computer vision and Expert system with proper examples to understand. This book also covers the basics of python with example so that any anyone can easily understand and utilize artificial intelligence in agriculture field. This book is divided into two parts wherein first part talks about the artificial intelligence and its impact in the agriculture with all its branches and their basics. The second part of the book is purely implementation of algorithms and use of different libraries of machine learning, deep learning and computer vision to build useful and sightful projects in real time which can be very useful for you to have better understanding of artificial intelligence. After reading this book, the reader will an understanding of what Artificial Intelligence is, where it is applicable, and what are its different branches, which can be useful in different scenarios. The reader will be familiar with the standard workflow for approaching and solving machine-learning problems, and how to address commonly encountered issues. The reader will be able to use Artificial Intelligence to tackle real-world problems ranging from crop health prediction to field surveillance analytics, classification to recognition of species of plants etc.

We live in the world where nothing is difficult, if there is market. There is therefore the dilemma of want and need. Technology wants, what life wants. Using technologies, it seems, it is possible to do anything and produce anything. The centre of gravity of engineering profession is shifting. The world wants confident engineers who can foresee and manage the unknown and unexpected problems. Engineers are expected to understand global issues, and the nuances of working in a culturally diverse space. They are expected to appreciate, more than before, the human dimensions of emerging technologies. There are many questions, such as - Do I take pride in designing a thing and manufacturing it, as I take pride in packaging it? Are we cultivating the right kind of engineering mindset? What a general engineering toolkit must contain? Are there enough challenging jobs in the manufacturing industry to attract good engineers? Is it right to allow the creation of future elites who have augmented themselves with artificial intelligence and genetic engineering, without inventing a way to manage their superhuman abilities? Can there be better engineering than life itself? Should we be optimistic about the future of technology? Are we working harder than we are required to work? Can technology improve work-life balance? Is the society ready to accept the exponential development challenges? These, and many such issues are the concerns of science, engineering, technology and society. This book is an attempt to deliberate upon these issues for the welfare of humankind.

The book "Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Emission" in Agriculture presents the principles, practices along with key messages on different relevant issues on climate change and greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions in agriculture. Chapters also contain probable questions and few solved problems. It is primarily intended for use as text book at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, but it can also be used by researchers of environmental sciences and allied disciplines. The other important feature of the book is that techniques of GHGs measurements at field level with examples are presented which could be useful for practical studies. The book should give students a good foundation in climate change studies and inspire them to take up further studies in the advanced area of environmental sciences.

The book is in simple languages with ability to provide extensive knowledge about cultivation, purification, handling and bio-banking of different classes of anaerobes including the obligate, facultative, aero-tolerant and micro-aerophillic is very much essential. The aim of preparation of current book is to provide the state-of-the-art knowledge about anaerobes and anaerobic process to undergraduate, graduate and PhD students. Information like cultivation, handling, preservation and various important process related to anaerobes like biomethanation, anaerobic methanotrophy, solid waste management, anaerobic biohydrogen and biobutanol production, anaerobic nitrogen treatment, anaerobic solid waste management. Complete section like anaerobic probiotic, anaerobes and human gut microbiology and anaerobes and human infection. Chapters on role of anaerobes in animal rumen and food digestion. Will serve its aim to satisfy the hunger of knowledge about anaerobes and anaerobic process for the UG, PG and PhD students of Microbiology, Biotechnology, Environmental Science and biochemistry background.

This textbook "Communication Technologies in Agriculture" will be a comprehensive book with 24 chapters which covers the old wisdom and also the new horizons in innovations and trends in Agricultural Extension for all those who are associated with Agricultural Extension as a student, scholar, researcher and practitioner.This book would serve to the information needs of all the stake holders in the change process. More fittingly, the Under Graduate students of Agriculture and Horticulture and Post Graduate students of Agricultural Extension, Mass Communication and Rural Development who would use it for enriching their theoretical requirements.

As far back as 1873, experiments were carried out to see whether the electric trolley system applied to omnibuses could be adapted to ploughing and tilling fields. In 1913, 1,600 "trolley/cable ploughs were in use across Germany. The arrival of the gasoline tractor relegated the use of electricity to electroculture, short haul farm machinery and lawn mowers. But it is only with the availability of the lithium-ion battery during the last decade, that electrically powered drones and more recently tractors and earth movers are being seen as the way ahead. In this, the sixth in his seminal electric transport history series, Kevin Desmond portrays the lives of the innovative engineers who perfected these e-tractors and agricultural drones

In any agricultural country, various types of agricultural commodities are produced in large quantities and to handle such quantities during harvest, post-harvest, processing and transportation, various types of equipment are required. To design particular equipment or determining the behaviour of the product for its handling, physical properties such as size, shape, surface area, volume, density, porosity are very important. Various types of cleaning, grading and separation equipment are designed on the basis of physical properties of seeds such as size, shape, specific gravity etc. The book will provide a fundamental understanding of engineering properties of agricultural produce and the knowledge of engineering properties are combined with engineering knowledge. Each chapter in the book will be helpful for the students to understand the relationship between engineering properties of raw, semi-finished and processed food to obtain products with desired shelf-life and quality. This book discusses basic definitions, principles of engineering properties and their measurement methods with research findings. It will be helpful to the students for their self-study and to gain information how to analyze experimental data to generate practical information. It will also be helpful for students who deal with engineering properties in their research. Methods to measure these properties are also explained in details.

Horticulture plays an important part in today's agriculture and there are new avenues that are being achieved by horticulture.

Horticulture plays an important part in today's agriculture and there are new avenues that are being achieved by horticulture.

Nowadays, artificial seed technology is one of the most important tools to breeders and scientists of plant tissue culture. It has offered powerful advantages for large scale mass propagation of elite plant species and conservation of plants. The artificial seed technology is a rousing and fast growing area of research in plant tissue culture. The information in the areas of synthetic seed preparation technology, its implications, achievements and limitations are lying unorganized in different articles of journals and edited books. This information was presented in this monograph in organized way with up-to-date citations, which will provide comprehensive literatures of recent advances. To be an expert in artificial seeds, one should have enough practical hand in plant tissue culture. The main aim of artificial seeds is to obtain true-to-type plants; consequently the different methods of testing clonal.

The origin of agroforestry practices, i.e. growing trees and shrubs with food and fruit crops and grasses is traditional and very old; but the science of agroforestry is new. Years of experience and experiments have shown that agroforestry as a land-use system is capable of yielding both food and wood and at the same time helps in conserving and rehabilitating the ecosystems. It has the capability to increase the overall productivity of land, maintain the nutrient balance in the soil and above all protect the nature. In the recent years, agroforestry has been recommended as a core subject in the curriculum of B. Sc. (Forestry) and B. Sc. (Agriculture) courses of the state agricultural universities. The book has been divided into ten chapters covering very comprehensive information on all aspects of agroforestry including history, concepts, systems classification, tree-crop interactions, planning and management, diagnosis and design, policy and projects, and propagation and management practices of multipurpose trees. 2020, 192pages, figures, tables, index, 25cmDr. Alok Kumar Patra has about 25 years of experience in research and teaching at UG and PG level on agroforestry and agrometeorology. Presently he is working as Professor (Agronomy) in the All India Coordinated Research Project on Integrated Farming Systems, Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar- 751003, Odisha.

Nutrition remained largely an art until the scientists entered the field and chemists described feeds in terms of chemical entities. The physiologists, endocrinologists and bacteriologists joined the team and this paved the way for demonstrating that the feeds are heterogeneous combination of nutrients. It was shown that most single feed is unbalanced in terms of an animal's requirements. The field of nutrition has moved forward at an accelerated pace, year by year, as the new knowledge accumulated. In preparing this manuscript, the general framework and character of the book established by seniors, have been preserved. The text presents the principles of nutrition and their applications to feeding practice. It not only presents facts but shows how many of these have been obtained, illustrating experimental methods which will continue to develop new facts in the future. Like other rapidly advancing fields, new discoveries in the science of nutrition, which add to our knowledge, inevitably cause some modification in ideas previously held. The literature citations have been made on the basis of their usefulness to those students who are the principal users of the text. Such a compilation has resulted in an unbalanced representation of nutrition research on a worldwide basis.

This book has been framed to provide the principles for environmental and growth factors, seedling and graft production, nutrient and water management, organic and protected farming, crop protection, post-harvest management and marketing of vegetable crops. Every production aspect of 42 major and minor vegetable crops grown in the tropical and subtropical regions along with information regarding origin and taxonomy, importance and uses, botany, nutritional and medicinal values, plant protection measures and post-harvest management have been provided. The author's long and rich experience acquired through teaching and research on different aspects of vegetable science in the State Agricultural University was put to structure this book.

It is supported by suitable examples and diagrams. The broad chapters included in the book are: Rainfed agriculture: Introduction, types, characteristics, distribution and importance; History of rainfed agriculture & watershed in India; Problems and prospects of rainfed agriculture in India ; Soil and climatic conditions prevalent in rainfed areas; Drought: types, effect of water deficit on physio- morphological characteristics of the plants, Mechanism of crop adaptation under moisture deficit condition; Water harvesting: importance, its techniques, Efficient utilization of water through soil and crop management practices, Study of mulches and antitranspirants; Management of crops in rainfed areas; Contingent crop planning for aberrant weather conditions; Concept, objective, principles and components of watershed management, factors affecting watershed management; Integrated watershed development. The need for comprehensive information on rainfed farming relevant to undergraduate and postgraduate students of agriculture has been felt for quite some time. The advanced, diverse and need-based topics have been together for a systematic and comprehensive reading by the students and faculty in agriculture. The materials on subject matter is set forth in such a manner and order as to enable them to better understand and follow to a reasonable degree of uniformity and their approach to the problems of rainfed agriculture.

History of Nanotechnology, Basic Concepts, Definitions, Type of nanomaterials and its peculiarities have been described. Synthesis of nanomaterial's through physical, chemical and biological modes have been covered. Characterization of nanomaterial's through microscopic, spectroscopic and other techniques have been elucidated lucid language. This book will be helpful for UG and PG students of Agricultural Sciences including Horticultural, Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries disciplines.

The book is a very comprehensive and much practical-oriented for day to day reference and to complete course-work by UG and PG students in discipline of Food Science and Technology. Different topics are treated in such a way as to provide a comprehensive knowledge of the theoretical as well as the applied aspects involved in processing of bakery and confectionery products to gain confidence in any dedicated reader to go for a startup as well in the field. It also covers information on ingredients to bakery and confectionery products, formulae and processes for bakers, equipment for bakers and confectionery units along with quality assessment and standards. Equally well, it helps those personnel connected with industries, who supply ingredients, equipment and packaging materials for bakery and confectionery units. The book is also useful for all the students appearing in any competitive/entrance examinations' in the disciplines of Food Science, Food Science & Nutrition and Food Technology.

This book deals with climate change impacts and interventions in Agriculture across various regions of the Country based on the research findings emanated from ICAR institutes and State Agricultural Universities as Global warming and climate change is a threat to food security. Impacts of weather extremes viz., droughts, floods, heat wave and cold waves pose immediate threat to Agriculture because of their frequent occurrence due to global warming and climate change rather than the climate change threat directly to crops. More than 60 authors are involved with 29 Chapters to focus on mitigation and adaptation strategies in Agriculture against ill effects of climate change. Research investigations indicate that crop yields are likely to decline with increase in atmospheric CO2 and temperature in ensuing decades and crop losses can be minimized through technologies generated in crop management, crop improvement and crop protection practices. Farmers concern to minimize crop losses against weather extremes rather than climate change as the impacts of climate change (increase in atmospheric CO2 and temperature) on crops at the field level is not clear if water is not a constraint. The publication includes vulnerability assessment, adaptation strategies, crop choices/combinations in different climate scenarios and preparedness to face the exigencies of climate change and emphasis is given on interventions. Of course, there is need to intensify research to generate technologies/location specific farm strategies which can withstand the impact of climate change as a long term strategy and farmers are the best to cope up with suitable strategies against global warming and climate change/climate variability to sustain rural livelihoods is very complex and complicated at the farm level.