Life Sciences

The association between women and livestock production needs productive exploitation, especially while aiming at rural development through livestock development, lack of empirical evidence on the magnitude of the female participation in decision making and the extent and nature of their association in livestock farming operations, however, limit our efforts in exploiting this linkage. This study has been planned to fill this gap, arising out of the dearth of documented evidence on female participation in decision making related to livestock farming.

Pristine thin films of copper oxide have been prepared to glass substrates by a simple technique, namely, SILAR method with slight modification which employs successive dipping in 1M NaOH, kept at 70 degrees copper complex solution at room temperature successively for 20 s, followed by rinsing in triple distilled water for 10 seconds. The structure of the films were studied using XRD and the films are found to be polycrystalline with mixed phases before annealing and tend to become monoclinic after having annealed.

When freshly laid eggs of Corcyra cephalonica were exposed to 20, 40, 80 or 160 µl volume of Callistemon lanceolatus oil volatiles for 6 or 12 hour duration a significant reduction in percent egg hatchability was recorded only with 80 or 160 µl volume of the oil. When exposure period were increased up to 24, 48 or 72 hour a highly significant reduction in percent egg hatchability was observed at 40, 80 or 160 µl of the oil. The reproductive potential of C.