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Decision-making is a frequent problem in today's financial,
business, and industrial world. Thus, fuzzy expert systems are
increasingly being used to solve decision-making problems by
attempting to solve a part or whole of a practical problem. These
expert systems have proven that they can solve problems in various
domains where human expertise is required, including the field of
agriculture. Fuzzy Expert Systems and Applications in Agricultural
Diagnosis is a crucial source that examines the use of fuzzy expert
systems for prediction and problem solving in the agricultural
industry. Featuring research on topics such as nutrition
management, sustainable agriculture, and defuzzification, this book
is ideally designed for farmers, researchers, scientists,
academics, students, policymakers, and development practitioners
seeking the latest research in technological tools that support
crop disease diagnosis.
The book aimes at imparting basics of the subject besides the
latest trends in the evolution of technologies and important
industrial practices. Besides the technological aspects, adequate
emphasis has also been laid on the quality aspects and adequate
knowledge input required for a student or professional in Food
Science and Technology. The book contains 16 s addressing various
important aspects such as unit operations, thermal processing,
hurdle technology preservation, cold preservation, dehydration,
freezing, and advanced thermal techniques such as infrared and
microwaves besides non-thermal aspects such as high pressure and
pulsed electric field processing as well as ?-irradiation.
State-of-art subject areas such as functional foods could be an
added flavour as the global food market has ample potential in the
area of functional foods. Food packaging and food laws are
important in commercializing processed foods as well as fresh
produce and the areas require due emphasis to make the book more
comprehensive.
Food is a necessary aspect of human life, and agriculture is
crucial to any country's global economy. Because the food business
is essential to both a country's economy and global economy,
artificial intelligence (AI)-based smart solutions are needed to
assure product quality and food safety. The agricultural sector is
constantly under pressure to boost crop output as a result of
population growth. This necessitates the use of AI applications.
Artificial Intelligence Applications in Agriculture and Food
Quality Improvement discusses the application of AI, machine
learning, and data analytics for the acceleration of the
agricultural and food sectors. It presents a comprehensive view of
how these technologies and tools are used for agricultural process
improvement, food safety, and food quality improvement. Covering
topics such as diet assessment research, crop yield prediction, and
precision farming, this premier reference source is an essential
resource for food safety professionals, quality assurance
professionals, agriculture specialists, crop managers, agricultural
engineers, food scientists, computer scientists, AI specialists,
students, libraries, government officials, researchers, and
academicians.
The book has 21 s addressing fundamentals and applied aspects of
nanotechnology in soil science and plant nutrition research and
written by explorers of a new frontier. The interpretation of
subject matter in each is comprehensive, simple and lucid with
relevant supporting data. This book would offer a platform for
basic, fundamental and advanced learning for students. It would
also be useful and informative to researchers from SAUs and ICAR
institutes.
The book contains articles contributed by experts from various
parts of the country from research institutes like CFTRI, DRFL,
SLIET, CIPET, ICAR, PAU etc.. This book will be a valuable addition
to the literature on food grains that has been designed
systematically to include basis and advanced knowledge on quality
management in addition to the collection of articles in the fields
of: Quality Strategies, Approaches and Management, Quality
Evaluation of Grains and its Constituents , Value Addition, Post
Harvest Plant Operations and Quality Management, Product
Development Status and New Strategies, Storage and Handling,
Grading and Trends of Milling Industries
Book of combination of basic concepts, scientific depth with
practical usefulness, the book carries information on: product and
process development, production, quality assurance and quality
control food production, processing, food chemistry, food and
industrial microbiology, food process engineering food trade and
business management, food additives, food preservation, food
spoilage food packaging, food labeling, food legislations and
regulations. It also assembles the information on food
biotechnology, functional foods and nutraceuticals and top food and
beverage companies in the world. This book is a compilation of the
wealth of knowledge which can guide the students, who are preparing
for the competitive exams, especially for GATE, P.G entrances of
CFTRI, ICAR, SLIET, IICPT, NIFETM, UICT and State Agricultural
University entrance examinations. It is also useful book for those
preparing for ICAR, SRF and NET-ARS Exams.
This book addresses the important issues of food security and
sustainability of natural resources of India in the context of the
projected climate change. Agroecosystems being the sites of intense
interaction between human beings and natural world, global climate
change is likely to affect the resource base, the crop
productivity, input use efficiency and overall the profitability of
agricultural production systems to a great extent. However, the
adverse effects of climate change can be alleviated through
mitigation and adaptation strategies which carry importance due to
the increasing population and food demand in India. Thus, this
compilation covers possible sources and sinks of greenhouse gases
in Indian context including the potentials of soil carbon
sequestration, crop pest and soil management and scientific
livestock management as mitigation and adaptation options. This
book also includes some topics on fundamentals of green house
effect and the possible mechanisms by which soil nutrient
availability alters due to CO2 fertilization. The schematic
diagrams, tables and graphs have been included to make the book
more illustrative. The likelihood of carbon credits and trading
through best management practices can help Indian farmers earning
carbon credits in future. The book is useful for researchers, farm
managers, policy makers and also students engaged in climate change
related studies.
The book presents conventional and modern breeding technologies in
the vital areas of animal breeding, to stimulate more research, and
to rapidly pass such modern techniques to scientific community.
Various conventional breeding technologies used for selection and
faster multiplication of superior cattle and buffalo germplasm have
contributed significantly to increase in milk production, which
were mainly due to the technologies developed in the areas of
quantitative genetics and reproductive biology. These included
methodologies for selection of females based upon their expected
producing ability and young males based on the performance of
progeny. Emerging developments in the areas of molecular marker
systems in animals, genome maps, methods of detecting Quantitative
Trait Loci (QTL) linkages, Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) etc.,
are latest tools to be used in breeding programmes for enhancing
the rate of genetic progress. These modern techniques could be of
great help for those traits, for which the conventional
technologies have limitations in their use. Therefore, integration
of molecular markers with conventional breeding technologies
involving pedigree and phenotypic information are probable future
breeding tools for genetic improvement of livestock and poultry.
The aim of this book is to unravel the exciting field of food
microbiology to the students. This book focuses on the importance
and significance of an array of microbes found in food. Food
science is a vast field that forays into microbiology, chemistry
various elements and ingredients involved in its making and their
use in industrial production and ultimately their involvement in
human health. Food microbiology is a complex interdisciplinary
science which requires critical thinking, innovative approaches,
analytical abilities to understand- all of which are provided in
this book. Provides a balanced introduction to all major areas of
microbiology suitable for students. The illustrations in the text
book have been included to match the text and to assist in the
visualization of abstract concept.
Goats have a bright future as a domestic animal because of its
continued usefulness and generation of new information to maintain
this species in a more sustainable and profitable manner. Goat
farming requires less capital to start and maintain than cattle or
buffalo farming. Goat also has a higher reproductive rate as
compared to cattle or buffaloes. Goat can sustain itself on
marginal lands where other species of livestock may not even
survive. The book has put emphasis on goat production in India but
lot of information from world over is mentioned. Goats have been a
major part of the research and development programmes aimed at
poverty alleviation via the use of small ruminants. Research is of
little use if its results are not disseminated and this book is
part of the strategy for the dissemination and promotion of the
research results to ensure that poor and under-resourced farmers
benefit. The publication is expected to provide a useful reference
source for all those who are interested in goats.
Knowledge Management is the process by which an organization
identifies, creates, manages and delivers information to enhance
workforce performance.KM is a discipline that promotes an
integrated approach to identifying, capturing, evaluating,
retrieving, and sharing all of an enterprise's information assets.
These assets may include databases, documents, policies,
procedures, and previously un-captured expertise and experience in
individual workers. All these issues are covered in thirty three s
in the book broadly divided into the following five sections.
Fundamentals of Knowledge Management, Latest Tools and Techniques
for Knowledge Management, Databases, Data mining, Knowledge
Discovery in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Data mining and
Knowledge Discovery in Agriculture and Allied Fields, Indigenous
Knowledge Protection and IPR Issues The book contains original
research and case studies by academic and research contributors on
strategies, tools, techniques and technologies for Knowledge
Management. The focus of this book is on the identification of
innovative KM strategies and the application of theoretical
concepts to real-world situations. This first serves as a complete
introduction to the concepts and principles of KM, starting with
basics of data, information, knowledge and wisdom. Clarified
differences among Explicit, Implicit and Tacit Knowledge. The book
also covers traditional KM approaches as well as emerging topics
such as cloud computing, Semantic Web, Rough Computing, Fuzzy
logic, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, social networks,
Tools and Techniques for Geo Spatial Data Knowledge Discovery. The
focus of the book is on how KM impacts organizations and
individuals and steps that should be taken to maximize benefits,
including directions for how to select, develop, and evaluate KM
systems.
There has been a tremendous increase in the production of livestock
products and this is expected to continue in the coming future.
This is especially in developing countries. The greatest increase
is in the production of poultry and pigs, as well as eggs and milk.
Livestock production can make good use of resources, some of which
may otherwise not be used, and contributes high quality protein and
important micronutrients to the human diet.
With advancement in science and technology, there has been
significant demand for books and serials on Horticulture Science
especially molecular biology, breeding for re-salience,
bio-fortification, ideotypes for mechanization, amenability for
long term storage, novelty, uniformity, distinctiveness and
stability etc. The book contains 16 exhaustive articles contributed
by 24 experts from premier institutes from across the globe.
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