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Book Buffalo Production and Its Impact on Small Farm Development

Download or read book Buffalo Production and Its Impact on Small Farm Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Buffalo  Bubalus bubalis    Production and Research

Download or read book The Buffalo Bubalus bubalis Production and Research written by Giorgio A. Presicce and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook aims at focusing on the husbandry of the common water buffalo, (Bubalis bubalis). The book covers a broad range of topics such as the buffalo’s genetic evolution, cytogenetics, subspecies, breed diversification, feeding and metabolic specificity, adaptable response to environmental stress factors, welfare, dairy requirements and production, reproduction and embryo technologies, cryopreservation, sperm cell sexing, somatic cell cloning and transgenesis. Chapters presented and reviewed in this book have been by contributed by renowned scientists that have devoted years of research to the understanding of this species, and highlight the most recent advances in basic and applied science to unveil the understanding of physiological facets intrinsic to this animal species. The depth of the selected topics makes this book especially suited for readers of all academic levels of study. Researchers, students and professionals will find this book a useful guide to breeding and farming the water buffalo.

Book Bibliography of Agriculture

Download or read book Bibliography of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sustainable Animal Production from Small Farm Systems in South East Asia

Download or read book Sustainable Animal Production from Small Farm Systems in South East Asia written by C. Devendra and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

Download or read book Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security written by Konstadinos Mattas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together research on cooperative management from the agriculture and food sector. By examining issues from food-policy, trade and environmental perspectives and presenting both methodological and empirical work, it allows readers to develop a deeper understanding of collective management processes and cooperative initiatives, and provides a theoretical background for promoting research in the various sectors in which market communities operate. On a more global level the offers insights into how to building powerful tools for decision making, particularly at a time when agriculture and the economy alike are affected by a volatile political, social and economical environment and are forced to undergo major structural changes.

Book A I D  Research and Development Abstracts

Download or read book A I D Research and Development Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recent Developments in the Nutrition of Herbivores

Download or read book Recent Developments in the Nutrition of Herbivores written by M. Journet and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present and future for herbivores. Role of herbivores in sustainable land production systems. Principles and practices - some of the issues. Role of herbivores in functions in which economic value is difficult to quantify. Changes in the nutrition and management of herbivores in the temperate zone: economic and social influences. Role of products market competition, non market functions and agricultural policies in animal and herbivore production prospects in France. Quantification of herbivore nutrition. Control and prediction of feed intake in ruminants. Herbage intake at grazing: a modelling approach. Optimisation of ruminal digestion: a modelling approach. Dietary compounds escaping rumen digestion. Prediction of the energy and protein value of forages for ruminants. Adaption of herbivores to environment. Comparison of herbivore forage selection and digestion. Improving the digestion of plant cell walls and fibrous feeds. Improving the feeding and health value of ensiled forages. Comparative adaptability of herbivores to tropical environments. Digestive and metabolic adaptations of ruminants to variations in food supply. Extensive herbivore nutrition. Optimisation of grass utilisation in high rainfall temperate conditions. Advances in the use of faecal and urinary markers for measuring diet composition, herbage intake and nutrient utilisation in herbivores. Dietary selection and foraging strategies of animals on rangeland. Coping with spatial and temporal variability. improved utilization of heterogeneous pastures by mixed species. Plant toxins and mammalian herbivores: co-evolutionary relationships and antinutritional effects. Feeding and management: high forage systems. High forage systems for the growing beef cattle: concepts and principles. The use of forages by the beef cow herd. High forage use in sustainable dairy systems. Grassland farm systems for sheep production. Feeding systems for draught ruminants on high forage diets in some African and Asian countries. Feeding systems for horses on high forage diets in the temperate zone. Final report. Future areas of research and expected advances in the nutrition of herbivores.

Book Biotechnological Applications in Buffalo Research

Download or read book Biotechnological Applications in Buffalo Research written by Manmohan Singh Chauhan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-10 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprehensively reviews the advancements in biotechnological applications for the enhanced production and conservations of buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). The book discusses developments in assisted reproduction to improve productivity and the produce novel products for applications to human health and nutrition. The initial chapters of the book discuss the global distribution and domestications of buffalo, and nutritive values of buffalo milk, while the subsequent sections examine the applications of the genome-wide association traits to identify potential genetic variants affecting important economic traits. It identifies predictive biomarkers for postpartum or peripartum diseased-state and presents potential protein biomarkers for the diagnosis of early pregnancy in buffalo. Lastly, it discusses recent scientific developments such as induced pluripotent stem cells, spermatogonial stem cells, somatic cell nuclear transfer, and buffalo as a model for human biomedical research. This book is a useful source to students, academicians, researchers, and policymakers who are involved in buffalo science and industry.

Book Thai Agriculture

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lindsay Falvey
  • Publisher : Kasetsart University
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9745538167
  • Pages : 459 pages

Download or read book Thai Agriculture written by Lindsay Falvey and published by Kasetsart University. This book was released on 2000 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history, science, and social aspects of today’s Thai agriculture is traced from hunters and gatherers through agro-cities through State-religious Empires and immigrating Tai to produce a sustainable agriculture. The wet glutinous rice culture determined administrative structures in a pragmatic society which regularly produced a saleable surplus. Continuing today, these systems consolidated the importance of rice agriculture to national security and economic well-being, as Chinese and European influence benefited agribusiness and initiated the demand which would expand agriculture through population increase until accessible land was expended. As agriculture declined in relative financial importance, it continued to provide the benefits of employment, crisis resilience, self-sufficiency, rural social support, and cultural custody. Agricultural institutions evolved from a taxation and dispute resolution base to provide research, education, and technology transfer at levels below potential as they supported commercial agriculture funded by credit. Agribusiness expanded from the 1960s and small-holders were partly viewed as a past relic which agribusiness could modernise. Unique elements of Thai agriculture include: irrigation technologies; administrative structures based on water control; global leadership in many agricultural commodities; multinational agribusiness; negotiating approaches; potential for further increases from known technologies, and an open culture which has embraced new ideas. One of the world’s few major agricultural exporters, Thailand leads the world in rice, rubber, canned pineapple, and black tiger prawn production and export, the region in chicken meat export and several other commodities, and feeds more the four times its own population from less intensive agriculture than its neighbours. Poised to benefit from expansion in livestock demand, poverty reduction, and improved education, research, and legal and social systems, evident in the recent Asian financial crisis, will be considered with popular concern for socially sensitive alternatives for small-holder farmers to co-exist with commercial agriculture. Thailand will likely remain one of the world’s major agricultural countries in social, environmental and economic terms for the foreseeable future, as it addresses the continuing rural issues of poverty and inequity.

Book The Soils of the Philippines

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rodelio B. Carating
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business
  • Release : 2014-04-23
  • ISBN : 9401786828
  • Pages : 363 pages

Download or read book The Soils of the Philippines written by Rodelio B. Carating and published by Springer Science & Business. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first soil survey in the Philippines was done by Mr. Clarence Dorsey, an American soil scientist in the province of Batangas in 1903. The Soils of the Philippines, however, is the first comprehensive summary of more than a century of soil-survey work in this country. It integrates the soil concepts of the reconnaissance soil-survey results, which commenced as early as 1934 and continued until the mid 1960s, with the semi-detailed soil surveys that continue to this day. The result is the first-ever genetic key for classifying Philippine soils at soil series level; thus, making it possible for any newcomers to the soil survey field to confidently produce their own soil map, at a more detailed map scale, to suit the project requirements. This book brings together discussions on soils and soil mapping units and up-to-date international techniques and technologies. It makes soils relevant to current political realities and national issues. As soil survey moves from a reductionist agricultural-development planning tool to a more holistic and integrated approach, to enable us to understand our dynamic and complex environment, The Soils of the Philippines will be the only source of authoritative and updated data on soil resources for macro-level resource management planning for decades to come. With a vanishing breed of experienced soil surveyors, not only in the Philippines but also worldwide, it may remain the only book on Philippine soils for the next hundred years or more. Since soils follow a geological and not a human time frame, the contents of this volume will stay relevant for soil surveyors even in a fast changing world. As the country leaps from an agricultural economy towards modernization and a more diversified economic base, some of the soil series in the Philippines, for example the Guadalupe series underlying the skyscrapers of Makati City, are becoming extinct as a result of urban development. Therefore, this book serves as the repository for the soils that we possess, the soils that have been lost through decades of urbanization while, at the same time, it creates a soil classification system for the soils we are yet to discover.

Book Bibliography of Agriculture with Subject Index

Download or read book Bibliography of Agriculture with Subject Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book MILK CO OPERATIVES IN TAMIL NADU   AN IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Download or read book MILK CO OPERATIVES IN TAMIL NADU AN IMPACT ASSESSMENT written by Dr. P. Jayendira Sankar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Livestock in the livelihoods of the underprivileged communities in India  a review

Download or read book Livestock in the livelihoods of the underprivileged communities in India a review written by Rangnekar, D.V. and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Global Agenda for Livestock Research

Download or read book Global Agenda for Livestock Research written by C. Devendra and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Developing Sustainable Agriculture in Pakistan

Download or read book Developing Sustainable Agriculture in Pakistan written by Iqrar Ahmad Khan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agriculture plays a pivotal role in the economy and development of Pakistan providing food to consumers, raw materials to industries, and a market for industrial goods. Unfortunately, agricultural production is stagnant due to several barriers including a fixed cropping pattern, reliance on a few major crops, a narrow genetic pool, poor seed quality, and a changing climate. In addition, the high cost of production, weak phytosanitary compliance mechanisms, and a lack of cold chain facilities makes Pakistan agriculturally uncompetitive in export markets. Despite all these issues, agriculture is the primary industry in Pakistan and small farmers continue to dominate the business. Small farmers grow crops for subsistence under a fixed cropping pattern and a holistic approach is required to develop agriculture to improve the livelihoods of the rural populace. This book presents an exhaustive look at agriculture in Pakistan. Chapters provide critical analyses of present trends, inadequacies in agriculture, strategic planning, improvement programs and policies while keeping in view the natural resources, plant- and animal-related agricultural production technologies, input supplies, population planning, migration and poverty, and balanced policies on finance, credit, marketing, and trade.