Socio-Economic Profile and Constraints Faced By Dairy Farmers of Wayanad District, India

Socio - Economic Profile of Dairy Farmers In Solapur District of Maharashtra State

Dairy Farming is a class of agricultural, or more properly, an animal husbandry enterprise, raising female cattle, goats, or certain other lactating livestock for long term production of Milk, which may be either processed on site or transported to a dairy for processing and eventual retail sale. Most dairy farms sell the male calves borne by their cows/buffaloes usually for real production, ra...

Constraints faced by the farmers in commercial cultivation of vegetables

The study was conducted to determine the constraints faced by the farmers in commercial cultivation of vegetables and to explore relationship between the selected characteristics of the farmers and constraints faced by them. Data were collected through personal interview from 142 randomly selected respondents out of 1422 vegetable growers of the three villages viz. Panchpara, Bagan and Rampur, ...

Mycoremediation of Benzo[a]Pyrene by Pleurotus ostreatus Isolated from Wayanad District in Kerala, India

Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) is a ubiquitous environmentally significant compound which due to its recalcitrant nature is often referred as persistent bioaccumulative toxin. The present study was carried on to determine the degradation potentials of three natural isolates of the white rot fungi Pleurotus ostreatus towards BaP, of which isolate PO-3 showed promising results. The factors affecting biodeg...

Morphometric analysis and watershed prioritisation: a case study of Kabani river basin, Wayanad district, Kerala, India

Kabani river is a 7 order stream with a basin area of 1647 km. There are 4 sixth order and11 fifth order sub-basins. This analysis is mainly confined to 11 fifth order sub basins. Morphometric indices like stream ordering, bifurcation ratio, stream length, drainage density, stream frequency, form factor, elongation ratio, circularity ratio, constant of channel maintenance, asymmetry factor, sin...

Socio-economic characterristics of farmers and use of agricultural information sources in fars province iran