Technologies for Rural Homes and Communities

Contents: Preface. I. Time and energy saving technologies: 1. Time and energy saving technologies for rural households/Indu Grover and Renu Kumari. 2. Economic fuel cake--an agrowaste product/N. Kamalamma and M. Saitharani. 3. Design and development of smokeless hearths/Manju Mehta, Veena Sangwan, D.N. Sharma and Lali Yadav. 4. Indoor pollution from traditional chulha in rural kitchen and remedial measures/Kritika Singh, Binoo Sehgal and Indu Grover. 5. Improved rural kitchen : layout and impact/Sudesh Gandhi, Ruchika Thakral, Mamta Dilbaghi and R. Bansal. 6. Solar technologies for rural homes/Binoo Sehgal. 7. Design and development of improved light weight wheel hand hoe/Manju Dahiya, Indu Grover and N.K. Bansal. 8. Drudgery reducing : farm and home technologies for women/Sudesh Gandhi, M. Dilbaghi, M. Mehta and Upasana Rathee. 9. Rural areas and the role of home economics in Germany/Elisabeth Leicht-Eckardt and Alrum Niehage. II. Micro level income generation technologies: 10. Home scale papad and wadi making for income generation/Romika Sethi, Sudesh Gandhi, D.N. Sharma and Indu Grover. 11. Technology for milk and milk products processing at village level/Sudershan Mehta, Monika Yadav, Nita Khanna and Indu Grover. 12. Potentiality of beekeeping and poultry farming as viable income generating technologies/Sushma Kaushik, Shalini Asrani and Shivangi Mittal. 13. Processing and value added meat products/Nita Khanna. 14. Potentiality of floriculture for income generation/Sudershan Mehta. 15. Simple methods for preservation of eggs for higher economic returns/Nita Khandekar and Prakash Khandekar. 16. Candle, detergent and liquid soap making : micro enterprises/Beena Yadav, Rajesh Dahiya and Poonam Kundu. 17. Amylase rich supplementary and weaning foods/Saroj Dahiya. 18. Green grass : the wonder tonic/Indu Grover. 19. Bio-resource complex approach for sustainable development/R.S. Yadav, Saroj Dahiya, H.D. Yadav and J.S. Dhankar. III. Water and waste management technologies: 20. Traditional and modern water purification technologies/Kusum Mehta and Indu Grover. 21. Comparative analysis of cost effective water purification technologies/Chinu Kuchhal, Manju Mehta and Veena Sangwan. 22. Rain water harvesting/Indu Grover and Sudershan Mehta. 23. Agri and other waste management technologies practiced as micro enterprises/Renu Kumari and Indu Grover. Subject index. Technologies for rural homes and communities, edited by Patricia Goldey and Indu Grover, is a highly timely and valuable book which is based on field studies and situations. The chapters are authored by senior faculty working in universities and organizations of repute in India and abroad. The book is divided into three sections viz. Time and energy saving technologies, micro level income generation technologies, water and waste management technologies. (jacket).…