Arup Ghosh – författare

This book delves deeply into the science, application, and potential of seaweed extracts as bio-stimulants in agriculture. It begins with an overview of the challenges facing modern agriculture, such as declining soil health, climate change, and the need to reduce chemical inputs. The book explores the composition of seaweed extracts, highlighting their rich content of bioactive compounds such as auxins, cytokinins, gibberellins, and betaines, which promote plant growth and development. It discusses how these compounds work synergistically to improve nutrient uptake, enhance photosynthesis, and boost plant immunity, gene expression, hormonal regulation, and metabolic processes, ultimately leading to increased crop yields and quality.Another important aspect the book covers is the mode of action of seaweed extracts in the soil-plant system. This includes discussions on how seaweed extracts stimulate beneficial soil microorganisms, improve soil structure, and enhance nutrient availability, all of which contribute to healthier and more productive crops. Additionally, the book provides practical guidance on the application of seaweed extracts in different crops and farming systems. This includes information on the best methods of extraction, formulation, and application timing to maximize their effectiveness. Case studies and testimonials from farmers who have successfully used seaweed extracts are also included to illustrate their real-world impact.Overall, this book serves as a comprehensive and authoritative guide on this innovative and sustainable agricultural practice, appealing to a wide audience of researchers, agronomists, farmers, and policymakers interested in enhancing agricultural productivity while minimizing environmental impacts.

Management process is the ensemble of activities of planning and monitoring the performance of a process, especially in the sense of business process, often confused with reengineering. Process Management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, techniques and systems to define, visualize, measure, control, report and improve processes with the goal to meet customer requirements profitably. It is different from programme management which is concerned with managing a group of inter-dependent projects. Organizational behaviour is an academic discipline concerned with describing, understanding, predicting, and controlling human behaviour in an organizational environment. Organizational behaviour has evolved from early classical management theories into a complex school of thought-and it continues to change in response to the dynamic environment and proliferating corporate cultures in which today's businesses operate. This book signifies a welcome emphasis on management process and organization behaviour.

Quantitative techniques help a manager improve the overall quality of decision-making. These techniques are most commonly used in the rational/logical decision model, but they can apply in any of the other models as well. Among the most common techniques are decision trees, payback analysis, and simulations. A quantitative analyst is a person who works in finance using numerical or quantitative techniques. Similar work is done in most other modern industries, but the work is not always called quantitative analysis. In the investment industry, people who perform quantitative analysis are frequently called quants. In statistics and survey methodology, sampling is concerned with the selection of a subset of individuals within a population to estimate characteristics of the whole population. Researchers rarely survey the entire population because the cost of a census is too high. This book re-examines the concept of quantitative techniques context and attempts to integrate participatory and rights-based concerns. It is a must read for students of management, operation researchers and teachers.