A crossbred piglet of Tamworth x Deshi variety was born in ICAR Research Centre, Ranchi with both male and female genitalia. Birth weight of piglet was 1.11 gm. There was scrotal sac, testis and vagina in inguinal region but no penis. The coat colour was typical with black spot on white skin against the normal black colour of this variety of pig. The animal grown normally till 9 months and the feed consumption and ADG were at par with other piglets. Animal exhibited libido after 6 months. At the age of 270 days body weight was 115 kg. On slaughter carcass revealed ovary, epididymis, rudimentary uterine horn and one testicle. This case was recorded as true hermaphroditism and the incidence may be due to the effects of recessive genes.

Maximum Vitamin ‘C’ content, total soluble solids shelf life of fruits and minimum cracking percentage was noticed under T7 (mixture of all micronutrients) amongst treatments of micronutrients. Variations in vitamin ‘C’ content and cracking percentage were non-significant due to bio-fertilizers. However highest total soluble solids were noted for T8 (Azotobacter @ 1 kg/ha as seedling treatment) whereas T10 (Azotobacter + Azospirillum @ 1 kg/ha each as seedling treatment) recorded the highest shelf life of fruits amongst treatments of bio-fertilizers. Treatments had no effect on fruit colour, fruit shape and stem end colour.

Oilseeds crops have major role in Indian economy next to cereals. Among the oilseed crops, groundnut is an important edible oilseed crop of India. Groundnut seed contains 45 to 47 per cent edible oil, which is used as feeding (edible oil) purpose. Groundnut is most favourable oilseed crop in Banaskantha district. The average productivity of kharif groundnut was 1319 kg/ha. The cultivating area under kharif groundnut in this district was 39,425 ha during 2012-13 (Anon. 2013). But the potential yield of groundnut crop recorded on the research station was recorded as 2400 kg/ha. This means that the groundnut crop has still potentiality to increase the productivity. The area under kharif groundnut is increasing year by year, but the production is not increasing. The average yield of farm level is always lower than yield obtained in FLDs. This is wide gap between the farmer and FLD yield. This means that the groundnut crop has still potentiality to increase the productivity. This comparatively low productivity of kharif groundnut crop may be governed by many factors including adoption as well as many hindrances in the farmer's field situation. The present study was undertaken in Banaskantha district as having large area and more production under kharif groundnut in North Gujarat. Three talukas viz., Deesa, Dhanera and Dantiwada were selected purposively having higher area under kharif groundnut cultivation in the district. Five villages from each selected talukas were selected randomly. Majority of the groundnut growers (71.34%) were possessing medium level of adoption regarding recommended kharif groundnut production practices. From the above discussion, it can be concluded that considering the no-cost and low cost inputs in the package of practices had obtained more mean score, means those practices were adopted by more number of the groundnut growers. While in case the cost effective practices viz., irrigation, improved varieties, harvesting, sowing were adopted by majority of the farmers. In case of the complex practices which were got less adoption mean score index had adopted by less number of farmers.The correlation coefficient indicated that among 11 independent variables under study, education, land holding, annual income, extension participation, sources of information, yield gap index and farm mechanization were found associated positively and significantly associated with extent of adoption of recommended kharif groundnut production technology by the groundnut growers. The major constraints faced by the groundnut growers in adoption of recommended kharif groundnut production technology were; high cost of input (96.67%), high wages of labour (92.00%), high cost of seed (85.33) and lack of pure and good quality seed (80.00).

Pigeon pea is an important and highly water logging sensitive legume crop in Madhya Pradesh. The investigations were carried out to examine the responses of pigeon pea genotypes under normal and waterlogged conditions in 12 pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan) genotypes to identify the susceptible and tolerant cultivars with the improvement strategies for them. The study of phenological traits indicated that the genotype ICPL 87051 took minimum days for 50% flowering (85.50 and 87.83 days) and C 11 required minimum days for physiological maturity (122.00 and 124.83 days) and field maturity (135.67 and 141.83 days) while genotype KPBR 80-2-1 had however late for (157.83 and 162.17 days), physiological maturity (195.83 and 196.33 days) and field maturity (212.00 and 215.00 days) under normal and waterlogged conditions respectively. Days to 50% flowering, days to physiological maturity and days to maturity were shown significant positive correlation among them under both the conditions.

Maize has a wide spectrum of non-food uses and there is considerable scope of value addition in terms of novel foods. An attempt was made to prepare maize dhokla (MD)by incorporating maize semolina along with bengal gram dhal. Quality of maize dhokla was assessed for sensory/organoleptic, physical and functional parameters with various levels of maize semolina incorporation (2:1, 3:1 and 4:1). Among various levels of maize semolina incorporation 3:1 (maize semolina: bengal gram dhal) was found to be highly acceptable with an overall acceptability score of 8.35 on a nine point hedonic scale, which was quite comparable to control (8.75). Results of the functional parameters of the best combination revealed that fermentation significantly (P≤0.05) decreased all the functional parameters except titrable acidity and oil absorption capacity. The per cent increase in batter volume was significantly high for maize batter (23.80%) compared to rice batter (17.46%) indicating that the good quality dhokla can be prepared from maize semolina in 3:1 combination.