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Journal of Natural Fibers, 2023 Magra sheep reared around the Bikaner area of Rajasthan, India is famous for producing lustrous fleece as compared to other wool-producing native sheep breeds.
Rajiv Kumar +5 more
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Small ruminant production in dryland regions of India: Status, challenges and opportunities
Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2021 Small ruminants are important components of smallholder production systems in dry regions of the country and require technological transformation for bringing the farmers out of the vicious cycle of poverty.
ARUN KUMAR +4 more
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Removal of Basic Violet from Wool Dyeing Effluent Using Nanoparticles
Journal of Natural Fibers, 2022 In the reported study, nano silica and nano clay were used to remove the residual color from effluent generated during the dyeing of wool fabric with basic violet.
Seiko Jose +3 more
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Objective Evaluation of Luster (Gloss 60 degrees) of Different Indian Wools
Journal of Natural Fibers, 2022 Luster for a fiber/fabric system is a phenomenon to the reflectance of incident light to the surface, addressed as its shine or gloss. Presently, objective evaluation of the shine for straight hair (human hair) can be quantified through Goniophotometer ...
Ajay Kumar +5 more
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Journal of Natural Fibers, 2022 New Zealand is the third-largest producer of wool in the world and accounts for approximately 9.3% of world production (approx. 140,000 tonnes greasy annually).
Peter Baxter, Jeremy Wear
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Quality Improvement of Dumba Fleece Using Dehairing Technique and Value Addition of Recovered Wool
Journal of Natural Fibers, 2022 The wool of Dumba fleece is an admixture of fine wool and coarse hairy fibers. (Tomer, ) The use of the slow speed carding machinerecovers fine wool fibers accounts 19.6% of fleece weight.
Ajay Kumar +3 more
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Carbon Management, 2020 Tree leaves of Ailanthus excelsa, Ziziphus nummularia and Prosopis cineraria were fed in complete feed block (CFB) to 36 weaner (91 d) lambs distributed equally (20.6 ± 0.55 kg) in three groups (T1, T2 and T3). The CFB of T1 consisted of 40% A.
Randhir Singh Bhatt +3 more
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Impact of Booroola fecundity gene introgression on sheep production: Indian perspective
Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2021 Surge of demand for meat from diverse sources in a time of decling land and other natural resources shifted the trend of producing more sheep per sheep. Prolificacy aspect in sheep can be used as an important arsenal to fulfil this objective.
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The Journal of Agricultural Science, 1914 (1) The method of taking four sub-samples and making in all 160 measurements of these sub-samples gives a satisfactory value for the average diameter of the sample.(2) The average of the samples from each shoulder gives a good indication of the shoulder for each sheep.(3) In comparing two sheep A and B we may take as almost certainly significant a ...
Bailey, P. G., Engledow, F. L.
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Indian Journal of Animal Sciences, 2021 A study was aimed to observe the impact of withdrawal of anthelmintic type and increase in refugia through community dilution on reversion towards benzimidazole (BZ) susceptibility in Haemonchus contortus at an organized sheep farm in semi-arid ...
C P SWARNKAR +3 more
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