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High population pressure, climate change, stagnant crop productivity, changing food habit and declining natural resources compelled us to go for climate resilient resource conservation technologies to bring sustainability in our crop production. Crop diversification by replacing high input requiring cereals with “nutri- cereals” minor millets in our crop rotations and by following intercropping of minor millets with pulses or oilseeds may be economically profitable, environmentally safe and socially acceptable approach to ensure food and nutritional security of the burgeoning population. This is high time to include millets in our daily diets but millet availability in sufficient amount is big issue. Millets are crops of rainfed and dryland resource poor areas and moreover under the threat of global warming and changed climatic scenario sole planting of millets generally gives less economic returns. So, there is an urgent need for incorporation of the pulses/oilseeds as intercrop in millets production system to enhance the production to feed the increasing population on sustained basis besides restoring the soil nutritional status and to overcome the environmental stress. But performance of intercropping system depends on proper selections of suitable intercrop, appropriate row ratio combination and proper input management. Very limited research work has been conducted on intercropping in millets so far but noteworthy information was recorded by the researchers, which has been reviewed through a sincere effort here to give critical view about intercropping in minor millets for agricultural sustainability to the farmers, researchers and consumers.
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Background: Measurement of the accurate IOP is important not only for classification, but for the clinical management of the glaucoma patients. The aim of this study to determine the difference in mean CCT among POAG and Ocular Hypertension. Materials & Methods: A hospital based comparative type of observational study done on 120 eyes of 60 patients was conducted under Department of Ophthalmology, Government D.B. Hospital, Churu, Rajasthan. To be safe and accurate, following factors should be checked before making a glaucoma diagnosis. The preliminary eye examination included the visual acquity and slit lamp biomicroscopy of the anterior segment, to rule out any corneal pathology and refraction. The intraocular pressure was recorded by using Goldmann Applanation Tonometry (GAT). Results: Our study showed that the most of the study subjects in POAG group (46.6%) were in >50 years age group, while most of the subjects in OH group (46.6%) were in 41-50 years age group and there were 19 (63.3%) male in POAG group while in OH group there were 23 (76.7%) males. The mean CCT in right eye & left eye was higher in OH group (568.4 & 562.2 respectively) as compared to POAG group (507.8 & 504.2 respectively) and this difference was found to statistically significantly on application of unpaired t test (P<0.001& P<0.001 respectively) and IOP was also statistically significant(P<0.001) in both eyes. Conclusion: We concluded that the measurement of the central corneal thickness aid the ophthalmologist in making a correct diagnosis and in a better management of glaucoma and the glaucoma suspects, especially when their corneal thickness differs markedly from the normal thickness. AQ