This book examines how migrant remittances contribute to household social resilience in rural Bangladesh. Using a mixed methods approach, the authors show that remittances play a crucial role in enhancing the life chances and economic livelihoods of rural households, and that remittance income enables households to overcome immediate pressures, adapt to economic and environmental change, build economic and cultural capital, and provide greater certainty in planning for the future. However, the book also reveals that the social and economic benefits of remittances are not experienced equally by all households. Rural village households endure a precarious existence and the potentially positive outcomes of remittances can easily be undermined by a range of external and household-specific factors leading to few, if any, benefits in terms of household social resilience.

Advanced Techniques of Honey Analysis: Characterization, Authentication, and Adulteration presents an overview of honey - its classification, composition, safety, present status, quality issues and prospects - before delving into honey adulteration and presenting various methodologies for honey analysis. Broken into fourteen chapters, this book explores physiochemical, bioactive compound, aroma, microbial, thermal, and rheological analysis of honey. It also considers infrared spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, and Raman spectroscopy methods. High-performance liquid chromatography, gas chromatography and GC-MS methods are also highlighted. Written for food scientists and those working in honey industries and related fields, this book will be a welcomed resource for all who wish to play a role in mitigating honey fraud.

This book examines how migrant remittances contribute to household social resilience in rural Bangladesh. Using a mixed methods approach, the authors show that remittances play a crucial role in enhancing the life chances and economic livelihoods of rural households, and that remittance income enables households to overcome immediate pressures, adapt to economic and environmental change, build economic and cultural capital, and provide greater certainty in planning for the future. However, the book also reveals that the social and economic benefits of remittances are not experienced equally by all households. Rural village households endure a precarious existence and the potentially positive outcomes of remittances can easily be undermined by a range of external and household-specific factors leading to few, if any, benefits in terms of household social resilience.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the soils of Bangladesh. It is compiled by authors with vast experience in soil related problems and potential mitigation approaches. It discusses the development of Soil Science as an individual discipline in a country with limited resources and where soil plays a pivotal role for the economy; the formation of different agro-climatic regions; and the effects of human-induced soil degradation and climatic change on its soils, geology and geomorphology and major soil types. It examines 'problem soils' and how they are managed, the scenario of soil fertility status, and land and crop management, as well as focusing on the future soils. Topics covered include: the history of soil research in Bangladesh; agro-climatic regions of Bangladesh; soil and climatic change, major soil types;  soil maps; soil properties; soil classification; soil fertility; land use and vegetation; land use changes; human-induced soil degradation; soil contaminants; and future soil issues. This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and soil science professionals.

The prevalence of retained placenta of 1205 cows observed in relation to breed, age, body weight, body condition score, parity, season and managemental factors. Genotype of LxSL (4.6%),

Goat has been recently recognized as a tool of poverty alleviation. Goat milk and its products are known for its properties regarding the health benefits. There are 34.0 million goats in Bangladesh and Black Bengal goats make up more than 90% which is famous for meat and skin in the world. But their production is not sufficient that is why a few private farmers are initiated cross breeding between the exotic buck (Beetal, Sirohi and Jamunapari) and doe of Black Bengal. The experiment was conducted at private and government buck breeding centres of Rajshahi, Bangladesh during January, 2009 to October, 2010 to evaluate the phenotypic traits of 60 bucks, namely Jamunapari (n=9), Sirohi (n=15), Beetal (n=13), Crossbred (n=13) and Black Bengal (n=10) and the status of reproductive and productive (RP) performance in 777 doe belonged to Jamunapari cross (n=163), Sirohi cross (n=66), Beetal cross (n=80) and Black Bengal (n=468). It is concluded that for cross breeding, the performance had superior in Beetal >Jamunapari> Sirohi > crossbred > Black Bengal buck as well as the overall RP performance had better in Sirohi>Beetal>Jamunapari>Black Bengal doe.

The aim of the study was to evaluate the growth stimulating drugs (GSD) on growth performance, haematology, feed conversion ratio (FCR), dressing % and meat quality of cattle. The GSD had significant effect on daily body weight gain of cattle. The daily average live weight gain by vitamin, Tonic powder, steroids, tonic drugs-parenteral, iodine+UMS and no drugs were 566, 775, 541, 525, 675 and 683 gm/day, respectively. Total erythrocyte count in all treated groups increased significantly. After treatment the Haemoglobin % increases significantly. FCR was lowest (4.90) in tonic powder-oral and highest (7.23) in tonic drugs-parenteral. Significantly the highest dressing (55.57) % was observed in control group and the lowest (45.97%) in group of tonic drugs- parenteral. The dry matter, crude protein, ether extraction and ash values were found to be significantly increased in iodine (parenteral)+tonic powder (oral) group. It is concluded that to increase meat production in a very cheapest way to may be the use of tonic powder-oral (Growth tonic powder, Speed care) + Caldee plus bolus, Speed care) and Iodine-parenteral+UMS-oral (Inj. Lugol's iodine (2%) solution+UMS) administration.

Arrack drinking produced from palm and date juice is one kind of alcohol beverage consumed by the lower and middle class in rural Bangladesh. Based on empirical study this book focuses on arrack drinking in association with socio-economic status and psycho-social factor in northwestern villages of Bangladesh. In so doing we intensively studied 100 respondents selected by random sampling from 6 villages of northwestern Bangladesh. Results suggest that arrack drinking was significantly associated with low socio-economic status, mass poverty and psycho-social stressors faced by the arrack drinkers.The findings would help social and behavioral scientists to understand arrack drinking across the world, including Bangladesh. The results would also help policy-makers to design social development policy and programs related to arrack drinkers'severe mental health status in Bangladesh.

The present investigation explored the important production and fertility parameters of cows in the private "mini-dairy farms" recently established in the district of Natore, Bangladesh. In total, 313 cows were studied for fertility-related parameters viz.interval between calving, onset of postpartum oestrus, open days, days wasted and service/ conception with regard to the ventilation and floor pattern of animals sheds, breed, body weight, age, parity, health condition, feeding and reproductive disorders. Proper ventilation, Concrete floor, Holstein-Friesian and Jersey crossbred, Middle age-animals (5-7yrs), 4th parity, Heavier body (301-401kg), Health condition (Grade-1) and Well balanced concentrates (Grade-1) feed have shown improved the productivity and fertility status of the cows, however the reproductive performance was better in the selected local zebu cattle. In average, 26.33% animals were suffering from different types of reproductive disorders of which retained foetal membrane and pyometra individually constituted (4.5%). In conclusions, the cow of the mini-dairy farm has good fertility; however, the incidence of reproductive disorders is alarming.

The present investigation was to evaluate the genetic variation in semen characters in relation to fertility from 71 bulls used for Artificial Insemination (AI) programme. The bulls were classified as bull factors viz. breed, age, body weight, body condition, scrotal circumference and libido. Environmental and managemental factors were considered as season, ambient temperature and relative humidity during semen collection and AI stations. Friesian breed (100%) showed better phenotypic characteristics and 8-10 yrs of age groups gave superior performances. The largest volume obtained in 50%SLx50%F and smallest in 100%Local. Lowest and highest spermatozoa abnormalities were recorded to be in SL-499 and F-0054 respectively of AI station Dhaka. The significant highest sperm motility rate was recorded in 50%SLx50%F and lowest in 75%Fx25%L bulls. The significant maximum NRR was recorded in genetic groups of 100%Local and minimum in 75%Friesianx25%Local. The highest TSL(71.65x1.6u) was found in F-0064 and lowest (66.50x1.58u) was in L-40275. Genotypes of progeny, sire and dam as well as grade of feed had significant effect on the reproductive and productive performances of female progeny.