Manas Mohan Adhikary

• Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya

Introduction The primary source of income in Bangladesh and other developing nations is agriculture [1]. It contributes 40.62 percent of the labor force and 13.47 percent of the nation's GDP [2]. But food security is a challenge in this world's most densely populated country, which is extremely vulnerable to natural disasters. This largest economic...

Now-a-days, dragon fruit cultivation is a profitable enterprise. Main causes are less water requirement, less insect-pests and diseases infestation, nearly no weeding problem, 5-6 times flowering in a year means provides more fruit production and other several reasons. Less space requirement is the most attracting or striking base. Hence, any categ...

Milk provides important nutrients to human body. Hence, milk consumption is need of the hour. But sufficient amount of milk is not produced in India. Therefore, we give more attention to milch cow rearing, removing the problems forward as much as possible. These activities will ultimately support nutritional security in our country.

Emu is considered one of the latest emerging species in the Indian poultry industry. Emu is the second largest flightless bird and scientifically known as Dromaius noveahollandiae. Emu also can be called as " million dollar birds " and its farming is getting great economic importance. Emus belong to ratite group and have high economic value for the...

The book “Textbook on Fundamental of Extension Education” has certainly been a selection by the time itself, not by the choice of the author. The book has accommodated all possible innovative aspects of the basic concept of extension education with its rural developmental aspects followed by different rural-social, communication and entrepreneurial...

Change is the only unchangeable feature of the changeable universe. To cope up with the continuous change philosophical background, concept as well as practical execution procedure of any subject should be always dynamic. Extension Education is the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through farmer educati...

“Man always learns, he must always be a student”. This particular advice opens deep spheres of thinking in the minds of people who are really keen to learn. If man wants to be complete one, the gap has to be filled in between ‘what he is’ and ‘what he wants to be’, this is achieved through Training. No organization has a choice of whether to train...

The book entitled “Agri-Tech Startups: Preparation and Execution” is important at this hour to leverage the full potential of technology and innovations to solve the problems in India’s agriculture sector with public-private partnership and investment. Business incubators worldwide are bolstering breakthrough ideas, emerging industries, and entrepr...

It is well known that farmers vary their practices of crop cultivation across different micro farming situations. On a particular stretched field keeping the crop and varietal duration constant (boro rice), the farmers, on the basis of their indigenous knowledge and experience classified the land in 7 micro farming situations. Data on selection of...

The study is to describe the process of recording the local soil knowledge and validating the indigenous soil knowledge for the three tribal communities, Thadou-Kuki; e Hmar and Vaiphei in Manipur State. Transect walks and brainstorming's were used for the collection of information on the indigenous soil of the region. Results indicate that the far...

Everyone by nature remains in search of happiness, a mental state of well being. As happiness is an expectation, entropy persists as a reality. Indian farmers are supposed to bear the humongous responsibility of food security of millions but seldom do we care for their happiness. This review paper examines different aspects of farmers' happiness in...

"Text book of Communication and Training in Extension Education" has been published from Daya Publishing house, A division of Astral International Pvt. Ltd. About the Book The book “Text book on Communication and Training in Extension Education” has certainly been a selection by the time itself, not by the choice of the authors. The book has acc...

Internet of Things (IoT) is the technological means for making wireless interconnection of multiple “smart” instruments feasible by employing radio frequency signals. Since day by day, the need for automated instruments is increasing with exponential growth, the new technologies supporting that feature are coming up. One main aspect of the intercon...

Introduction: Placenta previa contributes substantial maternal and neonatal morbidity including management challenges for Obstetrician. This study was to evaluate the potential risks factors and feto-maternal outcome in placenta previa. This study was done with the intent of developing insight into risk factors, clinical presentation, various inter...

Background Urticaria and allergic dermatoses remains a great challenge to treating dermatologist. Histamine is the major mediator in such disorders. Antihistamines as levocetrizine, fexofenadine and desloratadine are often used to treat such conditions. Ability of antihistamines to suppress the allergic response helps to evaluate the efficacy of th...

Migration is one of the three basic factors affecting the social ecology, other two being fertility and mortality. Mortality and fertility which work in a biological framework whereas migration is influenced by the wishes of the persons involved. Migration can be defined as the movement of individual or groups of people from one place of residence...

The brunt of climate change is well discernible to everyone; the perception to climate change has been differential based on the occupation, education, ecology, surrounding and mobility of a person, group or community. By the term climate change we mean and understand the change in meteorological parameters over times, in term of both eventualities...

Prologue-Born in the lap of nature, the giggling smile and the limping body, so tiny had been the babies of Homo sapiens, and so helpless! We were so candid and so simple, happy with whatever been gifted to us by the good earth. Some around 10,000 years back, we started mother agriculture by removing pristine jungles, the ecological deliverables st...

Technologies are often introduced as blanket recommendations to cover a wide agro-ecological zone, overlooking the micro-environmental diversity and the economic consequences of the innovation. A serious discussion of farm policy needs to recognize the heterogeneity of the sector. Farmers' classifications of micro farming situations may be a way to...

Poverty is worldwide problem, it exist both in developed and developing countries. It attacks a person not only materially but also morally. The objective of the study was to conduct the analysis of poverty through sustainable livelihood framework and the subject aspects of poverty was understood through participation of the poor people in formulat...

The book entitled "EXTENSION STRATEGY FOR MANAGING AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP" is going to be the much heralded publication of present time Indian agricultural research and education. The after math of green revolution that took place in the decade of seventies left the Indian policy maker with a serious contemplation on how to ge...

Migration in agriculture has got Plethora of forms, variability, dimension and dicta. The Indian agriculture is both economically and ecologically influenced and impacted by the phenomena of migration by forms and texts. The territorial, occupational, seasonal and cultural migration, across the rural Diaspora, have characterized both the economy an...

Born in the lap of nature, the giggling smile and the limping body, so tiny had been the babies of Homo sapiens, and so helpless! We were so candid and so simple, happy with whatever been gifted to us by the good earth. Some around 10,000 years back, we started mother agriculture by removing pristine jungles, the ecological deliverables started tam...

Migra􀀇on in agriculture has got Plethora of forms, variability, dimension and dicta. The Indian agriculture is both economically and ecologically influenced and impacted by the phenomena of migra􀀇on by forms and texts. The territorial, occupa􀀇onal, seasonal and cultural migra􀀇on, across the rural Diaspora, have characterized both the economy and ec...

constraints factors of qualitative jute fibre production

Impact study of SJDP, a Centrally-sponsored jute development project in Nadia district of West Bengal

characteritics identification of jute farmers....

The North Eastern Hill comprises of eight states- Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura and Assam. Occupying 8% of India’s geographical spread, the states are home to only 4% of the country’s population, while Assam accounts for 68% of the population. All the eight states have different developmental prospects an...

The present study was to determine and describe the perception of farmers regarding effectiveness of agriculture related TV programmes for the dissemination of agricultural information. Data were collected interviewing randomly selected hundreds of television viewing farmer by using personal interview schedule method. Among these hundred respondent...

Summer School sponsored by Indian Council of Agricultural Research

In Agriculture, energy is the most important input that promotes sustains and directs both production and productivity but Indian farmers are more input literate and less energy educated. The indiscriminate consumption of energy, as has been reflected in water management, soil and nutrient management even in part of processing agriculture, will lea...

With ever-increasing human population, there is an increasing demand to raise the production. Among the all measures to raise the productivity level, plant protection is playing a leading role. Specially in this field as well as for overall agricultural development in rural areas, the agricultural input retailers are playing an important role with...

p>Modern leadership has permeated the village social system. Change within that system will naturally necessitate a change in the socio -political construct of the leaders. The socio-political construct of a leader has been the resultant of interactive perception and perceptual configuration. In developing countries like India, leaders act as a cha...

Accumulation and putrefaction of various wastes may cause several adverse effects on environment and living organisms including human health. Preparation of vermicompost (organic manure) from various organic wastes will save our environment as a whole; simultaneously organic wastes can also be managed properly. With this background for saving our e...

Increased and indiscriminate use of agro-chemicals has led to a number of new problems emerged especially in the field of plant protection. Biopesticides are one broad spectrum of plant protection methods that are supportive to the environment. Among the several organic fertilizers and botanical pesticides neem (Azadirachta indica) had occupied the...

Chilli (Capsicum annum L.) is an important commercial spice crop grown mainly in Southern India and India is one of the largest producers of chilli in the world. The thrips (Scirtothrips dorsalis Hood) and the yellow mites (Polyohagotarsonemus latus) are the major pests causing major yield loss. The present study was undertaken at Instructional Far...

In agricultural development, agricultural input retailers also play an important role with all other stakeholders. The objective of the study was to ascertain the brand preference of agricultural input retailers in selling fungicides and herbicides. The study was conducted in the state of West Bengal. For the selection of area, multi-stage random s...

In agricultural development, agricultural input retailers also play an important role with all other stakeholders. Therefore, the objective of the study was to know about agricultural input retailers and their role in extension. The study was conducted in the state of West Bengal. The study revealed that respondents had much larger homogenity on mo...

Ever-increasing population of our country as second largest populous country (121.1 crores according to 2011 census) in the world is enhancing the importance of agriculture day by day to provide food security to such a large mass. Therefore, to raise the productivity level is under great concern where plant protection is in central position. Like o...

Cabbage is an important cruciferous vegetable grown all over the country. The crop is prone for infestation by a number of insect pests consisting of sucking and defoliating insects at all the stages. Diamond back moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella Linnaeus and Cabbage aphid, Brevicoryne brassicae Linnaeus are among the most important and regular pest...

The present study was conducted in two villages of adjoining states west Bengal and Bihar as to estimate and analyze the reasons for rejection and its expected impact of on the technology socialization process. lt has been found that education (x2), farm size (x10), expenditure allotment (x11), electricity consumption (x14), adoption leadership (x1...

Brinjals are cultivated in almost all the states in the country, but the major producing states are West Bengal, Orissa, and Bihar. In India 44 species of insect pests have been found to infest the crop. Aphid [Aphis gossypii, Glover (Aphididae:Hemiptera)] and jassid [Amrasca biguttula biguttula, (Ishida) (Cicadellidae: Hemiptera)] are the two dest...

The present world is reeling under serious economic recession to elicit serious impact on both life and livelihood of myriads of people across the world. Agriculture and live stock are the two most important economic sectors supporting and generating humongous volume of livelihood in rural social systems over centuries. This sector is now suffering...

Agriculture is the backbone of our economy, culture and life. Though, there is imbalance between demand and supply of agricultural production, to feed the ever-increasing population of our country, we have to raise more quantity as well as quality. Among the various measures to produce more, plant protection plays pivotal role. Agricultural input r...

In agricultural development, agricultural input retailers also play an important role with all other stakeholders. The objective of the study was to ascertain the brand preference of agricultural input retailers in selling insecticides. The study was conducted in the state of West Bengal. For the selection of area, multi-stage random sampling techn...

The study was conducted in Midnapur East district of West Bengal with 100 selected respondents. The purpose of the study was to determine the agricultural input retailers' extend of sale of technical grades (insecticides) and seasonality of sale. A well- structured interview schedule was used for collection of data. The study revealed that accordin...

Neem is an important bio-pesticide as well as important fertilizer. Application of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides are bringing lot of problems in agriculture as well as degrading environmental balance. In this concern, application of bio-pesticides and bio-fertilizers are right solutions and neem is one of these.

Agriculture plays a key role in the overall economic and social well being of India. Among the various stakeholders of agricultural development, Agricultural Input Retailers play an important and responsible role due to their easy availability to local people and their valuable suggestions influence farmers' decision making process. The objective o...

In the coming days global terrorism and global warming are the serious threat to mankind. But, perhaps in recent future global food insecurity is going to be most menacing problem for human being throughout the world. Being the second largest populated country in the world and with the staggering rate of increase of population, India may face this...

A study was conducted in Midnapur (East) district (one of leading agricultural district) of West Bengal. A multi-stage sampling technique was used for the selection of area and the universe method was used for the selection of respondents. The data were collected by personal interview method and analysis of data was done by using percentage and ran...

Agricultural Input Retailers play an important role in agricultural development. The objective of the study was to ascertain the nature of insecticides' brand preference of Agricultural Input Retailers. The study was undertaken in the state of West Bengal. The technical grades were ranked according to their sale and also preferred brands of technic...

The study was conducted in five blocks of Midnapur (East) district, West Bengal on a sample of 100 respondents. The respondents retailing performances level was measured by using mean and standard deviation. Various factors (independent variables were fitted in multiple regression equation for determining the nature and extent of variation caused b...

The study was carried out in Midnapur (East) district (one of leading agricultural district) of West Bengal with 100 respondents (selected by universe method) of five randomly selected blocks. The data were collected by personal interview method and analysis of data was done by using percentage and ranks. The major sale promotion methods adopted by...

India is predominantly an agricultural country. While agriculture held an important place in the national economy, its efficiency remained at low level due to several reasons. The Indian agriculturists are proverbially poor and have very limited resources. They are often heard saying "Provide the inputs at our door-steps, we shall take care of the...

Achievement of self reliance in foodgrains is the greatest success of agricultural extension with the solid support of research system. Today, the challenge is not the same. Finding a better market for surplus produce decides Indian Agriculture. Besides, opportunities opened up due to WTO also needs change in the mindset of all stake-holders in agr...

Agriculture is the backbone of India's economy, it provides livelihood to about 64 per cent of the country's working force, contributes nearly 26 per cent of national income and accounts for about 18 per cent share in India's exports. It has the full responsibility to double the present food 10 production level by 2010 to meet the requirements of e...

Differential Characteristics of Beneficiary and Non-Beneficiary Farmers of Special Jute Development Programme

Differential Characteristics of SJDP and Non-SJDP farmer

Constraints in the Yield of Quality Jute

Seed Industry’s Opinion about the Factors Affecting Marketing of Quality Seeds

Relationship of Yield with Jute Growers’ Agro-Economic, Socio-Psychological and Extension-Communication Characteristics

Differential Perception of SJDP and Non-SJDP farmer regarding Constraints in Jute Production and Marketing

Factors Influencing the Selection of Seed Brand by Farmers. Environment & Ecology

Socio-Economic Survey of Different Villages of the Districts of Midnapore, Howrah and Nadia for Reorganization of their Agricultural Resources.

Characteristics Identification of Jute Farmers in Two Districts of West Bengal. Environment & Ecology

Adoption of Improved Technology in Jute in West Bengal, India during the year 1996

This study was made to review the progress of farm forestry, an important component of the social forestry program in terms of its real objectives. Though the program was mainly aimed at serving the rural poor by motivating them to raise forest crops in their own land, the study revealed that most of the benefits have accrued to the big farmers who...

Investigates the inter-relationship among various socio-environmental antecedent and intervening variables of agricultural modernization and the crop yield index at the consequent variable. Crop yield index was found significantly related to socio-economic status, utilization of communication sources and management orientation. -from Authors