SECTION O (AGRICULTURE) AND RELATED ORGANIZATIONS

Section M-Section O

Section Abstracts: Agriculture, Forestry and Aquaculture

VIRGINIA AGRICULTURE: LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD. Sandra J. Adams, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Agriculture, the number one private industry in Virginia, contributes $52 billion annually to Virginia’s economy and supports 415,000 jobs. Though Native Americans grew crops and instructed the Jamestown settlers in New World agricultural practices, farming in Virginia ...

Prevalence of Cesarean section and its related factors

Introduction: According to WHO, no region in the world can justify a Cesarean rate higher ‎than ‎‏10‏‎-‎‏15 ‏percent. But unfortunately, Published statistics for most areas all‏ ‏over the world ‎show a great difference with this ratio. Cesarean births pose greater risk to the mothers’ ‎health, slow maternal recovery and increase relative mor...

Agriculture related corneal injuries.

INTRODUCTION Agricultural workers are predisposed to corneal injuries, which, if neglected, can lead to corneal blindness. OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence and mode of agriculturerelated corneal injuries in the village of Badkali, MuzaffarNagar, Western Uttar Pradesh, India in 2005 - 2006. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Adult population of village Badkali, MuzaffarNagar, Uttar Pradesh. A door-to-doo...

Indirect N 2 O Emissions from Agriculture

Agricultural perturbations to the global nitrogen cycle, directly and indirectly, lead to enhanced biogenic production of nitrous oxide (N2O). Direct pathways include microbial nitrification and denitrification of fertiliser and manure nitrogen that remains in agricultural soils or animal waste management systems. Indirect pathways involve nitrogen that is removed from agricultural soils and an...