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    Sustainable Cotton Production in Punjab: Failure and Its Mitigating Strategies

    Cotton is an important cash crop of Pakistan, and it plays a vital role in the economic viability of the country. Cotton and cotton products contribute 0.8% in GDP and 60% in the foreign exchange earnings of t...

    Wajad Nazeer, Zia Ullah Zia, Masood Qadir in Sustainable Agriculture in the Era of the … (2023)

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    Microbes and Climate: A Tangled Relation

    In the present scenario, the undesirable changes in the climatic conditions impact different components of ecosystem such as microbes, plants, animals, soil, etc. In this chapter, an effort has been made to su...

    Irfan Khan, Fahad Khan, Saghir Ahmad in Microbiomes and the Global Climate Change (2021)

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    Role of Methanotrophs in Mitigating Global Warming

    There is growing concern about global warming worldwide. Greenhouse gases, which absorb the heat energy reflected by the earth’s surface, are the main causes of global warming. Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous...

    Farhana Masood, Saghir Ahmad, Abdul Malik in Microbiomes and the Global Climate Change (2021)

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    Management of Food Safety and Hygiene: An Overview

    As all human need food, its safety and nutritional quality is important. According to Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC), Food hygiene is defined as “all conditions and measures parameter of quality to ensure...

    Farhana Masood, Zarreena Siddiqui in Health and Safety Aspects of Food Processi… (2019)

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    Microbial Escalation in Meat and Meat Products and Its Consequences

    Microorganisms are present everywhere, they play serviceable and detrimental role in various ways; deteriorate the basic needs of human life, escalation of their population in foods hamper the shelf-life of fo...

    Mohammad Anas, Saghir Ahmad, Abdul Malik in Health and Safety Aspects of Food Processi… (2019)

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    Risk Management of Chemical Hazards Arising During Food Manufacturing

    The three main types of food contaminants are physical, chemical and microbiological. Since ancient times chemical hazards are known as potential food safety concerns. These hazards may be transmitted into foo...

    Saghir Ahmad, Farhana Masood in Health and Safety Aspects of Food Processi… (2019)