dried milk

Dairy product made from milk by the removal of 95-98% of the water.

dried skim milk

The product obtained by removing water from pasteurized skim milk. It contains not more than 5% moisture and not more than 1.5% milk fat unless otherwise indicated.

Drip loss

The loss in weight of food products owing to extruding and dripping away of tissue juices, such as meat juices lost during the thawing of frozen meat.

dry period (lactation)

The time in late pregnancy when a cow (or other lactating animal) ceases to give milk. Commonly, U.S. dairy cows are dried off 60 days before calving.

durum wheat

The hardest of all U.S. wheats, seeded in the spring, and contains a high amount of protein, which is good for pasta products (macaroni, spaghetti, and other noodles), grown in the same northern area as Hard Red Spring wheat--mainly in North Dakota.

Deep Tillage

When soils tilled from 25 cm to 45 cm. It is carried out in root crops.

Dry farming

� Crops The crop which are grown under natural precipitation eg, sorghum,

Dockage Sample

usually refers to a representative sample of seed used to determine the amountof Inert method and other crops seed etc.

Detergent

� A chemical having abiity to remove soil.

Defoliant

A chemical which causes the lealf or follage to drop from the plant.

Dessicant�

A chemical which promotes the dehydration of plant tissue.

Dibbling

it is method of sowing the crop with the help of manual labour or dibber when specific spacing and� number of plants are maintained between rowa� and with in row�

Dip irrigation

A method of irrigation where water is supplied to plant by small tubus of pipes, through which water trickles drop by drop.

Detasseling

Proces of� removing the tassel in maize,

Drainage

Removal of excess surface or ground waler from the land.

durdgery to Labourers�

Wariness� or operational difficulties felt by the body of the labourers while doing a field operation

Dead Heart

The condition of plant where the central axis is dried up or rotten, is called dead heart.

Duly of Waler

Refers to the area irrigated by discharge of one causec of water during the crop period.

Diploid

Plant having two sets of chromosomes.

Drenching

A method to soak the root zone by using particular solution to control the spread of a particular disease.