Cognizing the significance of fruits and vegetables in the human diet. This book is designed to provide an insight into the nutritional importance of fruits and vegetables in human health, disease prevention, managing stress and boosting immunity, especially in this COVID-19 pandemic. The book contains a very concise and precise information on nutraceuticals, their sources and benefits. It also contains the best possible information regarding common health issues faced by humans and their prevention with the help of bioactive compounds, maintaining a focus throughout on how nutraceuticals influence human health. The information provided in this book is truly based on scientific records of scientists working in the arena of bioactive compounds of fruits and vegetables and their role in disease prevention of humans as well as Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) acts and regulations. Note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

The North Eastern Region of India is one of the most hazard prone regions in India, with various natural calamities like earthquakes, floods, landslides and cyclonic storms occurring at regular intervals. The Brahmaputra is a major river system of the world characterized by exceedingly high rates of basin erosion causing immense long-term destruction every year. The continuous retirements and unabated erosion causes heavy loss to the valuable homestead and fertile agricultural lands, besides evacuation of thickly populated riverine dwellers. Thus there is need to have a proper understanding of the problems and consequences of bank erosion, the changing social and economic characteristics due to rehabilitation so as to undertake meaningful mitigation measures for the benefit of the displaced people in particular and the society as a whole. The present work basically embodies the detailed geographical treatment of the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of erosion affected people in the Morigaon district of Assam.

Colocasia is primarily grown for its starch riched edible corms and cormels. Leaves and petioles are also used as vegetable while the starch has industrial uses. It is grown as staples or subsistence crop throughout the tropics and subtropics. Corms and cormels are generally consumed after boiling or frying. In North East India, farmers use different parts of colocasia as pig feed. It is one of the vegetables which are most extensively consumed by the rural people. Hundreds of cultivars are available in different parts of the region. Wide variation in stature and growing habit exist among the cultivars. Therefore, an experiment was designed to study the variation and correlation in growth and yield parameters and the interrelationship between different characters of 20 selected germplasm of colocasia. The results obtained and the conclusions derived from this investigation are incorporated in this book.