Improvement in Food Resources Test - 9

Methyl bromide is a gaseous fumigant. Excreta of birds contain bacteria salmonella which causes food poisoning.

The exotic variety of bee commonly used for commercial honey productions is Italian bee (Apismellifera).

Murrah is original breed of Haryana and Punjab. During its lactation period, its average yield of milk is 1800 to 2500 liters.

Gir, Red Sindhi and Sahiwal are breeds of cows and Murrah is breed of buffalo.

Honey contains sugar, mineral and vitamins. It is a highly nutritious food that provides energy along with energy.

All animals are heterotrophic organism because they are not able to prepare their own food. They obtain their food from plants or other animals.

The Italian bees have high honey collection capacity. Composite fish culture system is commonly used for fish farming. Bee keeping is done to get honey and wax. Tikka is fungal disease of groundnut.

• The mrigal carp also known as the mrigal and the white carp, is a species of ray-finned fish in the carp family. Native to streams and rivers in India, the only surviving wild population is in the Cauvery River.
• It is fowl breed used for chicken, small in size, growth is slow and hardy. These birds naturally resist against diseases.
• The Leghorn is a breed of chicken originating in Central Italy. Leghorns are good layers of white eggs. The white leghorn chicken breed is one of many great chicken breeds for eggs and heritage chicken.
• Jersey cattle are a small breed of dairy cattle. Originally bred in the Channel Island of Jersey , the breed is popular for the high butterfat content of its milk and the lower maintenance costs attending its lower bodyweight, as well as its genial disposition.

• Catla, also known as the major (Indian) carp, is an economically important. Catla is a fish with large and broad head, a large protruding lower jaw, and upturned mouth. Catla is a surface feeder fish.
• The rohu is a large, silver-coloured fish of typical cyprinid shape, with a conspicuously arched head which is found in the middle zone.it eats more and more phytoplankton and as a juvenile or adult is a herbivorous column feeder, eating mainly phytoplankton and submerged vegetation
• Mrigal inhabits all the major river systems of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma. The adult fish feeds upon filamentous green algae, diatoms, pieces of higher plants, decayed vegetable, mud and detritus. It is basically a bottom feeder and hence suitable for cultivation with column and surface feeder carps in ponds.
• Fish farming or pisciculture involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures such as fish ponds, usually for food. It is the principal form of aquaculture, while other methods may fall under mariculture.

• The Bombay duck or bummalo is, despite its name, not a duck but a lizard fish. The Bombay duck lives in the tropical areas. It is often dried and then consumed as its odour is very strong and is stored in air tight containers.
• Apis mellifera ligustica is the Italian bee which is a subspecies of the western honey bee having been conditioned to the warmer climate of the central Mediterranean, are less able to cope with the "hard" winters and cool.
• The Murrah breed of Water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) is a breed of domestic water buffalo kept for dairy production. The Murrah buffalo is jet black in colour, sometimes with white markings on the face or legs.
• Red Sindhi cattle are the most popular of all Zebu dairy breeds. The breed originated in the Sindh province of Pakistan, they are widely kept for milk production. Under good management conditions the Red Sindhi averages over 1700 kg of milk after suckling their calves.