The availability and efficient use of the feed resources in India are the primary drivers to maximize productivity of Indian livestock. Feed security is vital to the livestock management, extent of use, conservation and productivity enhancement. Assessment and forecasting of livestock feed resources are most important for effective planning and policy making. In the present study, 40 years of d...

rose water residues are by-products of rose water industries. these residues do not have any industrial usage and they are returned to soil as crop fertilizer. in this research, the effects of adding rose water distillation residues to soil in different particle sizes and weight proportion were investigated and changes in mechanical strength, and water holding capacity of soil and the growth of...

Researchers, such as Headley (1968) and Campbell (1976) have shown empirically that chemical pesticides have played a major role in increasing agricultural productivity. However, there is concern that chemical pesticides may contaminate ground and surface water, have harmful effects on wildlife, leave residues on agricultural products, and cause health risks to farm workers (Harper and Zilberma...

This paper presents a spatially explicit method for making regional estimates of the potential for biogas production from crop residues and manure, accounting for key technical, biochemical, environmental and economic constraints. Methods for making such estimates are important as biofuels from agricultural residues are receiving increasing policy support from the EU and major biogas producers,...

The aim of the experiment was to determine if temporal variations of belowground activity reflect the influence of the Cry1Ab protein from transgenic maize on soil bacteria and, hence, on a regulatory change of the microbial community (ability to metabolize sources belonging to different chemical guilds) and/or a change in numerical abundance of their cells. Litter placement is known for its st...

BACKGROUND This study examines differences in the factors female and male physicians considered influential in their rural practice location choice and describes the practice arrangements that successfully recruited female physicians to rural areas. METHODS This cross-sectional study was based on a mailed survey of physicians successfully recruited between 1992 and 1999 to towns of 10,000 or ...

In the current study, impact of preceding crops on growth, fresh pod yield, nitrogen fixation efficiency, and nutrition faba bean (Vicia L.) was investigated for two years in both organic conventional crops. As served cabbage, pea, bean. The number per plant (PN) total yield (TFPY) were significantly lower with cabbage compared to pea as cropping systems experimental years. However, farming sys...