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The study investigated that the Socioeconomic status and use of an agroforestry system, 20 farmers from one district, four blocks, and four villages per block were randomly selected. The socioeconomic condition of the agroforestry system in the Azamgarh districts of Uttar Pradesh is based on preliminary study. According to the size of their holdings, the respondents were divided into Palhani, Bilariyaganj, Mehnagar, and Jahanaganj block farmers, and observations were made about their socioeconomic profiles. Farmers ranged in age from middle-aged to elderly; the majority had completed middle school, whereas large farmers were more likely to have completed high school; most of them were nuclear families with semi-cemented or cemented homes and had more than 10 years of expertise in agriculture and agroforestry. Their family sizes ranged from medium to big, or over 5 individuals. In the three categories of farmers, the risk orientation ranged from low to medium; the scientific orientation was of a medium degree. The large farmers were found to be more exposed to the media, and most farmers were found to attend group meetings. Smallholder farmers, especially in developing nations, contribute significantly to local, regional, and economies as a result of socioeconomic and environmental constraints. About 75% of the world's agricultural land is used by smallholders.
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Myelopathy is an infrequently reported complication of bacterial meningitis. We report the case of 32-year old Nepali male who developed acute transverse myelopathy, confirmed by MRI, subsequent to acute bacterial meningitis
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An experiment was conducted in the fields of state Board of Agric. Research, during fall seasons in 2000 and 2001. The objective was to estimate the ability of improving F2 and F3 seeds of maize hybrids. The single cross hybrid Shahed [844 x 834] with its inbreds, Fl and F2 plants were used. In the first season, crosses were done between the plants of Fl and F2 generations as female parents and inbred lines 834 and 844 as male parents. In the second season variatal trial for 8 genotypes was carried out using a randomized complete block design, with three replications. The single cross hybrid was superior to both parents with positive heterosis for all the characters. The results showed that crossing Fl and F2 plants with the parent 834 decreased inbreeding depression more than the parent 844, in all the traits. This indicates that the effect of crosses difference was due to the genotype of the parent, high heterosis [14.6, 4.5, 15.7, 21.4, 7.1 and 33.6%] and low inbreeding depression [3.0, 5.4, 1.8, 3.0 and 8.3%] for the characters, ear length, number of rows/ ear, number of grains/ row, grain weight, number of grains/ ear and grain yield [kg/ ha.], occurred in the Fl and the crosses of [Fl x 834], respectively. It was concluded that crossing of Fl plants with the best parent, [of higher combining ability] reduced inbreeding depression