Under the changing world scenario new global mindset has emerged in the form of fast information and communication, DNA analytic modules, gene mapping with genomic information being reassessed and reconstituted in electronic chips. A new mechanism of ultra sensitive equipments and techniques have emerged to counteract new emerging diseases. A new global system of research has to cope up with these new global challenges. In the words of Prof. Charlottee Krik Baer, Director of National Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, the veterinary research has to be remandated for protecting public health besides animals health. Thus the wise postulation of Prof. Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) have come true a century after his death. He postulated that "All Animal Species including Homo Spines are related and that knowledge gained in one species benefits all the others. This integrated human animals-plant and the environment as one entity.
The first section consists of 28 chapters including last chapter on references cited. The books' initiates with abstract which reflects brief topics and issues discussed in the chapter. Every chapter is a complete entity in itself. One is not bound to read the book in a systematic order. He is free to choose any chapter or even a subheading under a chapter to refresh his knowledge. Every attempts has been made to present latest an futurist view of animal-agriculture biotechnology.
Section II on agriculture and allied policies has been described briefly in chapters 29-37, topics like agriculture productivity, agro-econ-concerns, agribusiness, agriclinics, indigenous-agro-techniques, horticulture and a vivid new reforms on extension education. |
