Smart Food updates Collaborating with celebrity chefs in London, Paris and West Africa Smart Food cooks up momentum with culinary skills from across London to Paris, West Africa and India  Three celebrity chefs from Gabon, Congo and Senegal are finding new takers for millets and sorghum in Europe, with innovative recipes featuring a touch of ‘home’. The chefs tied up with the Smart Food campaign to show these cereals can effortlessly be turned into tasty food.    Read more

Young chefs heat up India’s first Smart Food reality showirst Smart Food Culinary Symposium prepares ground for change in millets industry Who will be the Smart Food student chef of India? Fourteen finalist young chefs from across India will fire up the burners to be crowned the country’s star Smart Food student chef. Paired as seven teams they will take on the challenge of pleasing the palate of celebrity judges and Smart Food experts at the Grand Finale of the Smart Food Culinary Challenge on 19 January 2019 in Bengaluru.    Read more

First Smart Food Culinary Symposium prepares ground for change in millets industry The first of a series of India-wide Smart Food Culinary Symposiums was organized for chefs from major fine-dining chains and food service representatives in Bengaluru. Experts from government, training, nutrition and agriculture were on hand to ponder over challenges and opportunities. Millets were the center of discussions, and approaches to help develop the industry were discussed with Dr Jagadeesha, Commissioner, Department of Agriculture, Government of Karnataka.     Read more Placing Smart Food in industrial canteen menus Opportunities and challenges to bring millets into industrial canteens were brought to the table at an event held in Bengaluru to create awareness of millets among industrial caterers and to highlight the government’s role to assist. Noted chefs also showcased the use of millets in recipes during discussions.   Read more Building culinary skills with a wide range of activities across West and Central Africa From being blogged about to being showcased at international events, the Smart Food initiative is gaining support from chefs to politicians in West and Central Africa (WCA), and in its wake, overturning dated notions about dryland cereals.   Read more Feature stories Promoting dual-purpose sorghum and vegetable sack gardens for better nutrition in Mali Demonstration of improved, dual-purpose sorghum varieties and an innovative method called vegetable sack garden generated great interest in local farmers in Sikasso, Mali, recently. Farmers and agricultural scientists also discussed ways to scale up these technologies for a wider area of impact.    Read more Targeted farm interventions made easy with precise soil health diagnosis Boosting farm soil health in Odisha just got easier. Farmers in the state can now implement targeted interventions thanks to soil health cards being distributed under the Bhoochetana Project.   Read more Odisha to move beyond paddy, to focus on millets and legumes Odisha plans to diversify its agriculture beyond popular cash crops with emphasis on legumes and dryland cereals including millets, the state’s Principal Secretary for Agriculture, Dr Saurabh Garg, announced during a recent visit to ICRISAT – Patancheru.    Read more              More information go to icrisat.com

Entomology study metarial

LECTURE 1.
Definition of entomology and importance of insects.
Introduction to Phyllum Arthropoda
Definition of ‘Entomology’ and importance of insects
The term entomology is derived from two Greek words. Entomon means an
insect and logos means to study. The term ‘insect’ is derived from the Latin word
insectum which means ‘cut into’.
Insects came into earth 480 million years ago. Man came to mother earth only
one million years ago. Out of 17 lakh living species on earth, 9.5 lakh species are
insects, 2.5 lakh species are plants and 0.45 lakh species alone are vertebrates.
Insects are harmful to man as pests of cultivated crops, animals, stored
products, carries of human diseases and pests of household and industrial articles.
They are also helpful as producers of honey, lac, silk, dyes, etc., pollinators of crops
and as natural enemies of crop pests. They also serve as important link in the food-
web of biological cycle in ecosystem.
Insects are grouped with other animals with similar characteristics in the
Phyllum Arthropoda.
Introduction To Phylum Arthropoda
There are about 1-2 million species of animals in the world and more than 70
per cent of these are insects. These animals are assigned to 29 phyla. Of these only
nine phyla are large, and their representatives are common and familiar to us. These
are called the major phyla. The other phyla are small and their representatives are
uncommon and of uncertain relationships.
Position of insects in animal kingdom and their relationship with other
Arthropods
Insects are invertebrates grouped in the phylum Arthropoda (Arthro-joint,
poda-foot) and subphylum Uniramia. Characters of the Phylum Arthropoda are
1. Segmented body
2. Segments grouped into 2 or 3 regions (tagma) known as Tagmosis.
3. Renewable chitinous exoskeleton
4. Grow by molting.
5. Bilateral symmetry of body.
6. Body cavity filled with blood and called as haemocoel.
7. Tubular alimentary canal with mouth and anus at anterior and posterior
ends.
8. Dorsal heart with valve like ostia.
9. Dorsal brain with ventral nerve cord.
10. Striated muscles (with dark and light bands).
11. No cilia (hair like vibratile structure on the surface of the cell).
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