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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.
The study of manipulating materials on molecular as well as atomic
scales is known as Nanotechnology. Nanotechnology deals with
matters that are sized in between 1 to 100 nanometers.
Nanotechnology is a new field of technology with science at nano
levels. Materials behave differently at nano levels while their
physical and chemical properties are unique at nano level.
Nanotechnology can be applied in almost all the areas. The wide
array of applications in nanotechnology has come to show one and
all how much importance nanotechnology has in our lives today.
Nanoscience and technology provides new ways and means to tackle
critical issues and challenges in a very different manner for the
benefit of mankind. This has to be understood by students, research
scholars and scientists as well. The understanding of the
nanomaterials and their properties are very essential for proper
application in any field of science and technology. This book is
written with an objective that students must understand the basic
principles of nano science and technology for their further
perspectives.
In modern days, crop improvement is a multidisciplinary division of
agriculture. In this book, entitled, "Breeding, Biotechnology and
Seed Production of Field Crops", emphasis has been given on
principles, methods and practices in plant breeding, biotechnology
in crop improvement and seed production of field crops. The book
has been written for all sections of learners, educators and
staff-members of seed industries. Particular importance has been
underlined for postgraduate students who specialize in plant
breeding and seed science. Each of the book has been designed as
per the recommended of syllabus of Indian Council of Agricultural
Research for the postgraduate students of various Agricultural
Universities in our country. This book has been divided into two
major parts- i) Principles of crop breeding and ii) Methods and
practices of crop improvement and seed production of individual
field crop. The book contains total of 18 chapteFirst three s are
related to shed light on the basic-principles and remaining s deal
with methods and practices of individual crop for improvement and
seed production. We hope that the book will be ready to lend a hand
to the advanced undergraduate students doing plant breeding in
elective, postgraduate students who opted plant breeding, teachers,
researchers and staff-members of private seed companies of this
field of specialization.
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