Pratibha Joshi – författare

The book in question aims to emphasize the facets of enhanced Agricultural and related technologies for farmers. The opening segment of the book delves into crop production technologies for rice, mustard, lentil, sugarcane, and explores the IFA model and SRI techniques. The segment on Horticultural Production Technology delves into protected cultivation, vegetable and fruit production, floriculture, and diversification for nutritional security and prosperity. The Crop Protection unit provides information on weed management, nematode management, and integrated pest management. The section on natural resource management covers soil testing, bio-fertilizer, water management, and biogas.

Members of the phylum Mollusca are among the most conspicuous invertebrates and include such familiar forms as clams, oysters, squids, octopods and snails. During the last 18th and 19th centuries, when natural history occupied the time of many well to do gentlemen, shell collections were as popular as today. Such collections, often containing species gathered from various parts of the world, have contributed considerably to our knowledge of the phylum. In abundance of species, mollusca comprise the largest invertebrate phylum aside from the Arthropoda. Over, 1,00,000 living species have been described. In addition, some 35,000 fossile species are known. The Term Mollusca (L. mollis = soft)mean soft bodied and for the first time coined by Aristotle in his famous Historia Animalium to describe various kinds of cephalopods and gastropods. The term Mollusca was used by Jonston (1650) to include cephalopods and barnacles. Phylum Mollusca is divided directly into five classes-Amphineura, Gastropoda, Scaphopoda, Lamellibranchia and Cephalopoda, by Paseneer (1892) has remained standard ever since. This encyclopaedic work in three volumes is designed to present entire vital information on Mollusca. Profusely illustrated in the light of latest researches, this work is a dependable reference work for students and researchers in the discipline.