Assam initiated organised development of milk processing way back in the mid 1960s. The total installed capacity of pasteurisation and chilling plants in the State is 159 thousand and 28.5 thousand litres per day, respectively. The current scenario of the formal milk processing segment in the sta...
Sirohi, S.
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Kumar, A.
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Staal, Steven J.
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[Formal milk processing sector in Assam: Lessons to be learnt from institutional failure]
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Formal milk processing sector in Assam: Lessons to be learnt from institutional failure
Integrated food supply chains serving urban areas are the fastest growing and most visible market phenomenon, yet small scale milk market agents and chains supplying fresh milk and traditionally processed dairy products still play a very large role in most of the developing countries. This study ...
Kumar, A.
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Staal, Steven J.
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[Is traditional milk marketing and processing viable and efficient? An empirical evidence from Assam, India]
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Is traditional milk marketing and processing viable and efficient? An empirical evidence from Assam, India
Sweet sorghum is a multipurpose crop that comes up well under rainfed conditions in semi-arid tropics. While the stalk juice from sweet sorghum used for ethanol production, its grain is used for food and the bagasse as animal feed. The investigation had four objectives: 1) to popularize sweet sor...
Kumar, A.
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Reddy, B.V.S.
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Blümmel, Michael
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Samireddypalle, A.
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Ramana Reddy, Y.
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Reddy, R.
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Rao, P.S.
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Reddy, P.S.
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[On-farm evaluation of elite sweet sorghum genotypes for grain and stover yields and fodder quality]
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On-farm evaluation of elite sweet sorghum genotypes for grain and stover yields and fodder quality
Veterinary public health (VPH) is ideally suited to promote convergence between
human, animal and environmental sectors. Recent zoonotic and emerging
infectious disease events have given rise to increasing calls for efforts to build
global VPH capacities. However, even with their greater vulnerab...
Kakkar, M.
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Abbas. S.S.
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Kumar, A.
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Hussain, M.A.
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Sharma, K.
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Bhatt, P.M.
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Zodpey, S.
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[Veterinary public health capacity-building in India: A grim reflection of the developing world’s underpreparedness to address zoonotic risks]
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Veterinary public health capacity-building in India: A grim reflection of the developing world’s underpreparedness to address zoonotic risks
Vrindavani cattle are recently developed synthetic crossbred cattle strain of India. It has the exotic inheritance of Holstein-Friesian, Brown Swiss, Jersey and indigenous inheritance of Hariana cattle. The present study was undertaken to characterize the Vrindavani cattle maintained at cattle an...
Singh, R.R.
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Dutt, T.
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Kumar, A.
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Tomar, A.K.S.
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Singh, M.
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[On-farm characterization of Vrindavani cattle in India]
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On-farm characterization of Vrindavani cattle in India
Jarial, Sapna
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Kumar, A.
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Padmakumar, V.P.
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[Feeding practices and nutritional gap in lactating buffaloes of Tehri and Pithoragarh Districts in Uttarakhand]
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Feeding practices and nutritional gap in lactating buffaloes of Tehri and Pithoragarh Districts in Uttarakhand
Kumar, A.
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Singh, D.K.
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[Performance of livestock production system in India: where rain-fed region stands?]
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Performance of livestock production system in India: where rain-fed region stands?
Sirohi, S.
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Kumar, A.
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Gokhale, S.
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Elumalai, K.
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Sinha, G.
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Wright, Iain A.
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[Livestock support services in India]
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Livestock support services in India
Kumar, A.
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Sharma, A.N.
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[Agricultural diversification in Bihar: prospects and challenges]
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Agricultural diversification in Bihar: prospects and challenges
Kumar, A.
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Mulatu, F.
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Assefa, Y.
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Hanson, Jean
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Jones, Christopher S.
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[First report of Johnsongrass mosaic virus infecting Urochloa mosambicensis in Ethiopia]
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First report of Johnsongrass mosaic virus infecting Urochloa mosambicensis in Ethiopia