Although, agriculture plays an important role in fulfilling the farmers needs by providing tangible and intangible benefits which helps in maintaining socioeconomic conditions along with food and environmental security at local and national level. However, agricultural profession has been justified and secure among the other professions in various way such as it helps in building the carrier opportunities of youth and farmers through raising the employment opportunities and fulfill the slogan “become a job creator not a seeker”. As we know, agriculture is a main profession and largest sector which helps in building both socioeconomic and ecosystem. Agricultural professional has tremendous scope and potential in term of maintaining land fertility, employment opportunities, climate change mitigation, developing interpersonal skills, innovation skill enhancement and able to produce food grains to feed the world. Although, government, NGOs and private institutions have participated in various agricultural development scheme for attracting and retaining youth in Agriculture (ARYA).

India is the main chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) producing country in Asia, despite there are few studies on gibberellic acid (GA) application to chickpea. Production of chickpea, as a forage and food source, has increasingly become a popular agricultural practice in India but cultivation of chickpea for both seed and forage is not keeping pace with increasing demand for protein based products. A pot experiment was conducted at a net house in the ‘rabi’ season of 2017 to 2018 to evaluate the effects of gibberellic acid (GA) on shoot dry weight, nitrate reductase activity (NR), carbonic anhydrase activity (CA), seed yield and seed protein and carbohydrate content. Sterilized seeds of chickpea were soaked in four different concentrations viz., 0, 10-7, 10-6 and 10-5M solution of GA for 4, 8, or 12 h and sown in pots. The potted plants were then analysed at 90 and 100 days after sowing (DAS) for shoot dry weight per plant, NR, CA activity. Seed yield, seed protein and carbohydrate content were estimated at harvest. All parameters were found to be significantly enhanced by the soaking with different levels of GA, with optimum stimulation being noted following an 8-h soaking treatment with 10-6MGA. The total seed protein and carbohydrate content were stimulated by 82.69% and 11.00% respectively.

Nutrition knowledge is an important factor that influences healthy eating habits. Nutritional status of an individual can be enhanced by improving dietary practices and this can solve many nutritional problems like anaemia. The present study was designed with objective to assess the impact of nutrition education and supplementation along with nutrition education on anaemic adolescent girls. This study was confined to adolescents (13-18 years). One hundred twenty anaemic adolescent girls of age group 13-18 years were selected from village Shera, district Panipat, Haryana purposefully. A self structured questionnaire was used to check their nutritional knowledge. Biochemical estimation was also done. Analysis of data was done using SPSS 16. Nutrition education was imparted to the subjects after assessing their nutrition knowledge. The subjects were divided into three groups. First group as control, second group (N.E.) was given nutrition education and third group (S.N.E.) was provided nutrition education along with iron- rich food supplement (roasted garden cress seeds incorporated atta besan laddoo). The result of the study showed that nutrition education improved the nutrition knowledge scores of the subjects. Average daily intake of all the nutrients also increased significantly among all the adolescent subjects. Further, biochemical parameters indicated that serum iron, percent saturation and serum feritin concentration decreased non-significantly in N.E. group whereas a significant (p≤0.05) increased were noticed in S.N.E group (except serum feritin). Thus, nutrition education and along with supplementation appeared a better method to enhance adolescents nutrition status. Ethical approval: The study protocol was approved by ethic committee, Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra. Participation in this study was voluntary.

Herbs are used as a source of medicine in Ayurveda and also in some traditional systems of medicine as having lesser side effects and cost when compared with the synthetic drugs. Plants live on a planet with days and seasons, and that affects their phytoconstituents. Availability of active principles in medicinal plants change by seasonal fluctuations, so their dose pattern for therapeutic efficacy also gets influenced. The best duration for the harvesting of specific secondary metabolites for better yield is not fixed. Seasonal impact show changes in important constituents like polyphenol, flavonoids, glycosides, alkaloids and essential oil. Late summer is the best collection time for essential oil component. Winter is a best season for harvesting of secondary metabolites containing plant parts. The results of these studies may help to the researcher those are involved in exploring the isolation of valuable chemicals from the plants for treatment of various diseases. Therefore, current review aims to focus on best possible season for the harvesting of pharmaceutically important plant materials.