Climate change impact on coastal fisheries and Aquaculture

For the first time SAARC Agriculture Centre organized a Video Conference on “Climate Change Impact on Coastal Fisheries and Aquaculture” on 20th December 2016 with the SAARC member countries. Dr. S. M. Bokhtiar, Director SAC welcomed the participants and gave a brief presentation on SAC activities. Dr. S. S. Giri, Senior Program Specialist (Fisheries) coordinated the program. Md. Mizanur Rahman, IT Manager provided technical support for the conference. List of member county experts: (01) Dr.Mohammad Anwar Sadaf, Acting Head of Livestock Extension Services, Afghanistan (02) Mr. Sayed Mehdi Hasan, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Fisheries & Livestock, Bangladesh (03) Mr. Namgay Dorji, Programme Director, National Research Centre for Aquacultre (Gelephu), Department of Livestock, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Royal Government of Bhutan (04) Dr A. Gopalakrishnan, Director, Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Post Box No. 1603, Ernakulam North P. O. Kochi 682018, Kerala, Indi

READING INTEREST MOVEMENTS FOR KIDS IN NEPAL

Soon after enrollment information was documented and children began to progress in school, literacy rates became a viable measure of educational reform. Between 1991 and 2009 literacy rates for young people aged 15 to 24 years increased for males from 49.6% to 82% and for females from 32.7% to 76.7 %. Adult literacy rates for the same time period grew from 49.2% to 72% for males and 17.4% to 46.9% for females (UNESCO, 2009). In 1951, only 1% of Nepal’s population was considered literate; however, by 2009 Nepal’s overall literacy rate was estimated at 62.3% (UNESCO, 2009). Whereas Nepal’s literacy rates remain low in comparison to industrialized nations, especially for females, the growing percentage of Nepalese individuals who are able to read, write and understand short, simple, sentences relating to daily life, communicate with others, and perform simple calculations attests to the country’s efforts toward making education available to all

INHERITANCE OF FERTILITY RESTORATION INVOLVING ID TYPE CYTOPLASMIC MALE STERILITY SYSTEM IN RICE (Oryza sativa L.) USING TEN DIFFERENT RESTORER LINES

ABSTRACT Inheritance of fertility restoration was studied in crosses involving ten elite restorer lines of rice viz. BR827R, BR168R, BR6723-1-1-2R, M.H.63R, M.H.77R, Gui99R, IR40750R, IR64R, AjayaR and IR44675R and one male sterile line II32A with ID (Indonesian paddy type) sources of cytoplasmic male sterility. The segregation pattern for pollen fertility of F 2 and BC 1 populations of crosses involving II32A indicated the presence of two independent dominant fertility restoring genes. The mode of action of the two genes varied in different crosses revealing three types of interaction, i.e. epistasis with dominant gene action, epistasis with recessive gene action, and epistasis with incomplete dominance