scholarly journals THE GROWING USE OF CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS IN AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PRAYAGRAJ DISTRICT

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 219-226
Author(s):  
Monika Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
Chemical Fertilizers ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Future ◽  
Vedic Period

English: Significant changes have taken place in the importance and form of agriculture from the beginning to the present period. In the Vedic period, the use of iron tools and later the discovery of irrigation techniques made people more efficient in agriculture, while in the British era, growing commercial crops like cotton and indigo brought about a big change and earning money became the main objective of agriculture. As a result of this, the food crisis has emerged as a major problem. The Green Revolution of the 1970s heralded a new era of rapid food production. One of the main catalysts for this revolution was the use of chemical fertilizers. Certainly, the Green Revolution solved the immediate food crisis, but heralded a harmful method for the future. We have to be ready to deal with the ill effects of it.   Hindi: आदि काल से वर्तमान काल तक कृषि के महत्व तथा रूप में आमूलचूल परिवर्तन हुए हैं। वैदिक काल में लोहे के औजारों का प्रयोग तथा बाद में सिंचाई तकनीक की खोज से लोग कृषि में अधिक सक्षम हुए तो वहीं, ब्रिटिश काल में कपास और नील जैसी वाणिज्यिक फसलें उगाने से बड़ा बदलाव आया और धन कमाना कृषि का प्रमुख उद्देश्य हो गया। इसके दुष्परिणाम स्वरूप खाद्य संकट एक बड़ी समस्या के रूप में सामने आया। 1970 के दशक में आई हरित क्रान्ति ने तीव्र खाद्यान्न उत्पादन के एक नए युग का सूत्रपात किया। इस क्रान्ति का एक प्रमुख उत्प्रेरक रासायनिक उर्वरकों का प्रयोग रहा। निश्चय ही हरित क्रान्ति ने तात्कालिक खाद्यान्न संकट का समाधान किया किन्तु भविष्य के लिए एक हानिकारक पद्धति का सूत्रपात कर दिया। जिसके दुष्परिणामों से निपटने के लिए भी हमें तैयार रहना होगा।  

Editor’s Pick: Regulatory and Ethical Issues in the New Era of Radiomics and Radiogenomics

EMJ Radiology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Pesapane
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Medical Images ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
New Era ◽  
Naked Eye ◽  
Disease Characteristics ◽  
The Future ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

Radiomics is a science that investigates a large number of features from medical images using data-characterisation algorithms, with the aim to analyse disease characteristics that are indistinguishable to the naked eye. Radiogenomics attempts to establish and examine the relationship between tumour genomic characteristics and their radiologic appearance. Although there is certainly a lot to learn from these relationships, one could ask the question: what is the practical significance of radiogenomic discoveries? This increasing interest in such applications inevitably raises numerous legal and ethical questions. In an environment such as the technology field, which changes quickly and unpredictably, regulations need to be timely in order to be relevant.  In this paper, issues that must be solved to make the future applications of this innovative technology safe and useful are analysed.

Is food production vulnerable to environmental degradation? A global analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suet-Ling Ching ◽  
Kwang-Jing Yii ◽  
Cheong-Fatt Ng ◽  
Chee-Keong Choong ◽  
Lin-Sea Lau
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Global Analysis

Potential of World Agro-Food Sphere: Pluralism of Assessments

2011 ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
E. Kovalev
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
World Population ◽  
Food Crisis ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Technological Civilization ◽  
The Way

In 2007-2008 the world food crisis has substantially aggravated. This is a good reason to ponder over the fate of our technological civilization and a reminder of the finite nature of the resources used by the mankind. These resources include minerals, land suitable for cultivation, water and, at last, the technologies for securing the growing world population with the foods. The crisis has opened the eyes of many enthusiasts of the scientific and technological progress to some of its bitter fruits, in particular, to the polarization of food production and consumption, hunger and poverty of millions human beings, environmental pollution, progressive exhaustion of resources. Still, there are enough reasons to be optimistic. Earth's civilization has survived many turning points and has always found the way out and the methods to resolve the problem. It may be hoped that the humanity will also found the way out from the maze of problems that showed up as a result of the food crisis, at least in the foreseeable future.

The role of quality seed use for world crop production with special reference to the developing countries

1975 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 268-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
W P Feistritzer
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Special Reference ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Pasture Plants

In this short article the author indicates the present stages of development of variety evaluation, testing, certification, production and marketing of quality seed—of cereals, industrial crops, pasture plants and vegetables—in major geographical regions of the world and draws attention to some of the underlying problems which must be faced in the future if further progress is to be made.

Surplus: Two Hundred Years of Actuarial Advance

1962 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 19-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Cox ◽  
R. H. Storr-Best
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
New Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
Life Assurance ◽  
Pension Schemes ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Scene ◽  
Principal Factors ◽  
The Times ◽  
Historical Developments

SynopsisThe paper is in the nature of a summary of the authors' book “Surplus in British Life Assurance—Actuarial Control over its Emergence and Distribution during 200 Years”. Copies may be purchased direct from the Institute of Actuaries (price 17s. 6d.). Members and Students of the Faculty may obtain a copy for personal use at the reduced price of 11s. post free. It begins with a survey of the principal factors that have influenced the development of theory and practice in regard to surplus throughout the years. It describes the manner in which surplus first arose in scientific life assurance, and traces how this and other historical developments have had an important effect both in the early days and later as a valid standard of equity was gradually evolved. At the same time the influence of long-dated contracts and of the expectations of the public has been a stabilising factor in spite of rapid changes in the economic and social scene.The characteristics of the nineteenth-century image of equity are described, and the history of the twentieth century in regard to surplus is seen as one of attempts to preserve that image through sharp and contrasting vicissitudes. This idea is explored in some detail for both ordinary and industrial life business.The problems of the present day are reviewed one by one and the paper touches on such matters as economic inflation, the public demand for pension schemes, the introduction of computers and data-processing devices and the prospect of Britain joining the Common Market. Against this background, various modern concepts of equity are contrasted and brief reference is made to matching, immunisation and gearing. Equity in with-profit pension schemes and systems of variable policies are also considered.This general survey leads the authors in the end to ask some critical questions about the performance of the profession throughout its history. These questions relate to the success or otherwise of actuaries in foreseeing the future, in attaining equity and in progressing with the times. The authors attempt to answer them and are able to end on a cheerful note as regards past achievements and to express great hopes for the future, which may well bring a new era for the profession.

The future of food production – a text-mining approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 516-528
Author(s):  
Pavel Bakhtin ◽  
Elena Khabirova ◽  
Ilya Kuzminov ◽  
Thomas Thurner
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Food Production ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Of Food

scholarly journals Proficiency markers of the motivation- and value-related components of the professional competence to be acquired by the specialists in the field of processing and food production

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1 (130)) ◽  
pp. 107-113
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Novikova
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
The Future ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Systematic Professional Development

The purpose of the research is to define the proficiency state of the motivation- and value-related components of the professional competence acquired by the specialists in the field of processing and food productions (based on the results of the experiment which involved the first-year students specialised in 181 "Food technologies"). To determine the proficiency of level of the motivation- and value-related components of the professional competence to be acquired by the future specialists in the field of processing and food productions we used the methodologies adapted to our research: the testing of person’s value-related reference points and the testing of person’s capacity for self-discovery. The experiment was aimed at revealing and comparing future specialists’ motivation to study, basic reasons for educational activity, grounds for choosing a profession, and value-related orientations of the students constituting experimental and control (general) groups. The experiment involved the students specialised in 181 "Food technologies" in Kharkiv State University for Food Technologies and Trade, Kharkiv Petro Vasylenko National Technical University of Agriculture and Kharkiv Cooperative Trade and Economic College. The experiment consisted of two stages. At the first stage, 237 future specialists participated in the continuous questioning specially elaborated by the author. On the second stage, the first-year (two groups) and the second-year students (two groups) were tested according to the methodology "Motivation for study": test 1 "Studying the reasons of students’ educational activity”, test 2 "The necessities to develop students’ self-evaluation". The future specialists in the field of processing and food production acquired the professional competencies during the pedagogical events facilitating the development of stable motivation for their professional activity. The experiment allowed us to affirm that the professional competence demonstrated by the future specialists in the field of processing and food productions consists of some components, the motivation- and value-related component being one of them. On the whole, the results of the questioning confirmed the insufficient (reproductive) proficiency level which the future specialists of processing and food production demonstrated within the professional competence. The results of the first stage of the experiment (continuous questioning) testify that it is important for most students rather to get an appraisal than acquire knowledge. Most students failed to give any reasons for self-perfection or systematic professional development.

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