The study entitled “Value added baked products from raw jackfruit” was carried out at the Department Of Home Science, College Of Agriculture,Vellayani during the period 2014-2016. The main objective of the study was to develop value added baked products viz. Fruit bread, Bun, Rusk and Pizza base, based on raw jackfruit bulb flour and ascertain their physical, chemi...

Tuber crops are known as poor man’s crop as it provides food of high calorific value and quality starch. Queensland arrowroot (Canna edulis L.) belonging to the family Cannaceae, is a perennial herb grown in many countries for its edible starchy rhizome. It is an outstandingly versatile and one of the underutilized crops of tropics. The present study entitled ‘Valu...

The present study entitled “Value addition and quality evaluation of West Indian cherry” was an investigation on the nutritive values of West Indian cherry fruits, product development such as pickle, preserve, squash and sauce and evaluation of organoleptic, nutritional and shelf life qualities of the developed products. Physical examination of the fruit in both t...

The deccani sheep breed is a source for coarse wool-cum-meat. Gongali/ kambali is a traditional multi-purpose blanket with coarse deccani fibres. On an account of declining institutional and government purchases, the market for the kambali has collapsed. Thus, innovative approaches towards the use of deccani wool fibre will improve value added products that have po...

Indian embroidery is the reflection ofskill, creativity and imagination ofthe Indian Craftsmen. The people in India always yearned for beauty, colourfiilness and attractivenessinclothing.Thisleadtothecreationofmanyweaving,dyeing,printing andembroiderytechniqueswhichformedthemostexquisitepartofthetradition.Dueto diversifiedtalents,interestsandinspirations,hereeachstate...

One hundred commercially sexually exploited teenage girls were randomly selected from Parbhani town of Marathwada for the study. Out of the hundred, 50 teepage girls were the first generation entered the trade of commercial sex and the remaining 50 were the daughters of commercial sex workers. The data pertaining to the study were collected by personally inter...

Randomly selected 200 college girls, 100 each from metropolitan city (Aurangabad) non metropolitan town (Parbhani) were chosen and were personally interviewed based on structured cum open ended survey schedule. All the college girls from both the selected places were unmarried and belonged to the age group of 18 - 23 yrs. Majority of their parents were middle ...

VitaminAdeficiency(VAD)isrecognisedasaseriouspublichealthprobleminlndiaasitcontributestoconsiderableproportion(25%oftheworld’s totalblindliveinIndia)ofblindnessinchildren.AlthoughvitaminAprophylaxis programmehasbeeninoperationforthelast20years,ithasnothadthedesired impact.ThoughvitaminAisbetterbioavailablefromanimalfoods,theyare prohibitorybecauseofeconomicorethric...