In last few years construction industry has been growing rapidly world over including India. It is estimated that there are about 4 million workers employed in the Indian construction industry. Himachal Pradesh, a small north-western hill state of India, too has witnessed substantial construction activities for roads, hydroelectric projects, housing and industry in recent years. However, there is overall paucity of data on occupational contact dermatitis among workers in construction activity. This pilot study provides preliminary clinico-epidemiological and etiological data on the subject. Acral dermatitis, hand dermatitis, airborne contact dermatitis, and acrofacial dermatitis were common clinical presentations. Potassium dichromate in cement apparently causes irritant contact dermatitis (chrome ulcers, hyperkeratotic and ulcerative dermatitis) initially and predisposes, even when minimal, for allergic contact sensitivity to chromates, cobalt, and/or nickel. The parthenium weed with its ubiquitous presence in India remains frequent contact sensitizer among construction workers as well.

Goat, commonly known as the "poor man's cow," is widely distributed and usually associated with poor people. Economic contribution of goat is extremely important for the security and livelihood of poor people throughout the developing countries. The Jamunapari breed bas been extensively utilized to upgrade indigenous breeds for milk and meat purpose, and bas been exported to neighboring countries for the same purposes. This work exploit to answer the problem of tracking the oestrus cycle in Jamunapari goat by analyzing different methods for tracking of the oestrus cycle and develop the simple, economical and easy method to perform under field conditions with a high accuracy with minimum intervention.

This book highlights the relationship between prolactin gene variants with milk production traits in three indigenous breeds of cattle. Out of which two are drought type and only one milch type i.e., Frieswal breed developed by crossing Holstein Friesian with Sahiwal cows at Military Dairy Farms under the Ministry of Defence in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture launched a Cattle Breeding Project at Meerut in the year, 1985 for fulfilling the demand of milk in India.