This research documented the findings on major considerations like property rights, role of institutions, water users' interactions, value of water and propose strategies related to conservation and sustainable management of tank irrigation systems in South India. The research was undertaken in tank intensive districts of Tamil Nadu state, India. The claim over the benefits of a tank system was regulated among users by both legal and customary rights. Farmers attached higher social value over the tank irrigation system.Among various uses of tank, domestic, agricultural and LSD uses dominated...

Recent major shifts in global health care management policy have been instrumental in renewing interest in herbal medicine. However, literature on the development of products from herbs is often scattered and narrow in scope. Herbal Bioactives and Food Fortification: Extraction and Formulation provides information on all aspects of the extraction of biological actives from plants and the development of dietary supplements and fortified food using herbal extracts.

The book begins with a brief survey of the use of herbs in different civilizations and traces the evolution of...