Life Sciences

An attempt was made to identify the present status of poultry meat and egg market to the various kinds of people in the rural based society, particularly tribal thickened population in India. Survey was conducted over 760 respondents with the help of pre-tested structured interview schedule where education was significantly (P ≤ 0.01) correlated with their occupation and personnel cosmopolite. Most of them consumed broiler poultry meat and egg of the layer chicken due to its more availability and low cost, where taste was the main cause for liking of meat and egg.

The present study was carried out to investigate the effect of semi-ripe fruit pulp extract of Carica papaya (seeded and seedless fruits) on male albino Wistar rats. The experimental animals were divided into three groups, One group served as control, Group- II received papaya pulp extract from seeded fruits and Group - III received papaya pulp extract from seedless fruits. Both groups  were orally administered with pulp extract (10ml/kg/body weight) for 60 days.

Agriculture is the keystone of the Indian economy contributing nearly 18 per cent to country’s GDP. Our country has achieved a fivefold increase in food grain production of 263.20 million tons in 2013-14 giving food securities for more than 1.27 billion Indian population. Still factors like insect pests, diseases, weeds, rodents etc., take a heavy toll in agriculture production. The losses though cannot be eliminated altogether, these can be reduced. Till now, chemical pesticides were increasingly relied upon to limit the production losses.

A field experiment was conducted to study the influence of different growth regulating compounds on chlorophyll, photosynthetic rate and yield in greengram during rabi 2009-10. Among the growth regulators growth promoting substance NAA (20 ppm) recorded significantly higher values for photosynthetic rate, chlorophyll content (SCMR) values were highest in chlormequat chloride 50% SL 375.0 g a.i ha-1, mepiquat chloride 5% AS (5%) and NAA (20ppm) during reproductive stage.

Bungoh catchment which is a segment of Sarawak Kiri River catchment areas is located in latitude between 1.184° to 1.296° N and in longitude between 110.106° to 110.242° E and 60 km from Kuching, the capital of Sarawak, Malaysia. The catchment covers an area of approximately 127 square kilometres. The altitude ranges from 20m to 1300 m a.s.l. The construction of dams at the catchment area leads to the ecosystem loss and ecosystem fragmentation.

Randomly selected 70 rural women engaged in backyard poultry farming from randomly selected one block of one purposively selected district of West Bengal were interviewed with the help o0f pre tested structured interview schedule during Jan-March,2011. The collected data were analysed statistically after proper compilation. The study revealed that most of rural women engaged in backyard poultry farming were middle aged, landless, middle class educated, married and were from nuclear family. They had no improved poultry birds.

Fifty four genotypes were characterized based on their morphological characters as per DUS guidelines of castor viz., stem colour, types of inter nodes on stem, plant branching pattern, petiole colour, lamina leaf colour, bloom, type of inflorescence, colour of stigma, capsule type, spike shape, spike compactness, seed colour. The germplasm has shown great extent of morphological variability for all the traits observed.

A pigeonpea fallow-maize crop rotation trial was carried out over a period of 4 seasons in western Kenya. The trial compared six high altitude long duration pigeonpea varieties i.e.  ICEAP 00020, ICEAP 00040, ICEAP 00048, ICEAP 00053, ICP 9145 and ICP 13076 and a medium duration variety i.e. ICP 13211 for productivity, post fallow maize crop yield and financial returns indicators. Long duration pigeonpea varieties take 140-180 days to mature while medium duration varieties take >200 days to mature.

This study investigated the factors affecting local and international marketing of rose varieties (romeo, ensemble, summer filed and orchestra)produced in Manic land Province of Zimbabwe during the 2008-2009 period. A case study using the WH FAEDA Flowers Farm as a producer and marketer of roses to the two markets.

Environmental Education is an important educational concern. This study deals with initiatives and efforts to protect environment and environmental Education for school students. Environmentalists have taken a very strong position after the United Nations Conference on Human Environment at Stockholm in 1972, which was a major event for those concerned with the quality of world’s environment. Environmental Education is a way of implementing the goals of environmental protection.