Morphometric characterization of udder and teat of Jennies

The present study was conducted in eight districts of Marathwada region, Maharashtra, India. A pre-survey was carried to find the maximum available population of donkeys in the respective area. Two hundred two (202) female donkeys were selected for the study. The data was collected based on morphometry of udder, teat, physiological status, pregnancy, lactation, and milk composition. Udder traits such as udder length, udder depth, udder width, udder circumference and teat traits such as teat length and teat diameter were found highly significant in lactating Jennies when compared with dry and pregnant females. The milk composition parameters were milk fat (MF), milk protein (MP), milk solid not fat (MSNF), total solid (TS), odour (O) and test (T): 1.31±0.08, 1±0.01, 6.93±0.03, 8.31±0.09% and 4593±120 per ml, respectively, for overall lactating jennet population

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Not AvailableIt is a need of the time to try out different sources of natural dyes to colour the textiles as the synthetic dyes used on textiles are carcinogenic and can create havoc in the human life system. The research was carried out for optimizing different conditions for dyeing wool with dye extracted from False Black Pepper seeds. The study was conducted in Department of Textiles and Apparel Designing, College of Community Science, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani, Maharashtra (India). The dyeing conditions optimized for dyeing wool were, medium of dye extraction, dye extraction time, dye material concentration, dyeing time and mordant concentrations. The colour fastness of wool dyed by adopting optimized conditions were tested for different parameters. The alkaline medium was most suitable for extracting dye from False Black Pepper seeds for dyeing wool. On the basis of percent dye absorption the standardized dye extraction and dyeing time was 30 min, dye material concentration was 5%. The highest dye absorption percent was seen when wool was dyed with 10% Potassium Aluminum Sulphate (Alum) mordant in a simultaneous mordanting while for Copper Sulphate mordant 3% in post mordanting and for Ferrous Sulphate it was 3% in pre-mordanting. Wool dyed with False Black Pepper dye using different mordents adopting different mordanting methods exhibited very good to excellent colour fastness to sunlight, washing, rubbing and perspiration except wet rubbing as noticeable colour staining was observed in all the samples. The subtle,attractive colour range of light brown to dark brown acquired by the wool when dyed with False Black Pepper dye using different mordents.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableStarch is a sizing agent used in textile industry for stiffening of warp yarns before putting them on warp beam. Starch can be extracted from waste mango kernels after processing by a simple laboratory method. Mango kernel starch is white, odorless and has good pasting and film forming property. It is environmental friendly, bio-degradable and a low cost non-conventional starch. Eco-standards relating to textile finishing can be suitably adopted in the use of mango kernel starch as sizing agent on warp yarns. Cotton yarns sized with mango kernel starch exhibited decrease in yarn count, elongation percent and yarn hair count per 100 mt. of yarn and increase in the strength and RKM with the increase in the percent of mango kernel starch applied.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableHoli, a festival of colours is celebrated all over India irrespective of age and gender. Synthetic Holicolors contain harmful chemicals such as oxides, glass particles and metal substances. They are dangerous to the human being as well as to the environment. As the inclination for using natural and eco-product is increasing there is a great demand for eco-colour in the market. Rural women were trained in preparation of eco-holi colours using locally available natural resources. Trained rural women had taken up the activity of eco-holi colour preparation on large scale for income generation. The colours were sold in local as well as in city markets. Through a meagre investment a very successful seasonal micro-enterprises were run by them.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableIn Marathwada the activity of soya bean harvesting is predominantly done by the woman farm workers. The soya bean pods become hard, rough and thorny on drying which makes manual harvesting of soya bean very difficult, strenuous and problem creating. Woman farm workers faced health problems viz., cuts or wounds in hands, itching in hands and in other parts of the body, sun stroke while harvesting soya bean. The health problems of woman farm workers get aggravated due to non-usages of protective clothing while harvesting of soya bean. A protective Apron with attached hood is designed by the Clothing and Textile component of All India Coordinated Research ProjectHome Science of CCS HAU Hisar center, and protective Denim Mittens by UAS Dharwad center. These protective clothing were modified as per the anthropometric needs of the woman farm workers of Marathwada and up-scaled for the field trials. Thirty women farm worker who were engaged in soya bean harvesting were selected for the study. The set of protective clothing was used by each woman farm worker for the whole period of harvesting season and then they were interviewed to study the suitability of protective clothing while working. The Weighted Mean Scores obtained for the various functional features of the protective clothing indicated that the protective clothing were highly suitable for woman farm workers while harvesting soya bean.Not Availabl

Occupational health problems perceived by the workers of Cotton spinning mills

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Not AvailableHoli, a festival of colours is celebrated all over India irrespective of age and gender. Synthetic Holi colors contain harmful chemicals such as oxides, glass particles and metal substances. They are dangerous to the human being as well as to the environment. As the inclination for using natural and eco-product is increasing there is a great demand for eco-colour in the market. Rural women were trained in preparation of eco-holi colours using locally available natural resources. Trained rural women had taken up the activity of eco-holi colour preparation on large scale for income generation. The colours were sold in local as well as in city markets. Through a meager investment a very successful seasonal micro-enterprises were run by them.Not Availabl