Fresh soymilk was inspected for quality attributes like viscosity, TSS, titrable acidity, pH, standard plate count, yeast and mould count daily for sample stored in refrigerated condition and at the regular interval of 4 hrs for sample stored in ambient condition. On the basis of the quality attributes, it was observed that fresh soymilk samples were acceptable upto 5 days in refrigerated condition while same samples were acceptable upto 16 hrs in ambient temperature condition from the day of preparation. Thus, the study reveals that, fresh soymilk sample stored at refrigerated condition has better shelf-life.

The protection of the fig fruit quality in the chains from harvesting to marketing is very important. Vibration often causes some damages to perishable fruits in transportation and reduces their quality. The fruit injury due to vibration is related to the transportation characteristics of vehicles, packaging boxes and the conditions of the roads. The objective of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of packaging materials to reduce the quality loss of fresh fig during transportation. The experiments were carried out with five packaging materials and three transportation distances. The results showed that the CFB box with news paper lining was not proper for transporting of the fresh fig fruits in all transportation distance. The mass loss and total soluble solids of fresh fig fruits packed in CFB box with paper lining was more than CFB box with polyurethane foam sheet and polyethylene foam sheet. Also the decay loss of fresh fig fruits was more in CFB box with paper lining. Fruits packed in CFB box with polyurethane foam sheet were more firm and extended shelf-life than other packaging material.

The basic principle of soil and water conservation is to use the land according to its capability. Therefore, the knowledge of land capability classification is a prerequisite and important for planning of watershed development programme. The capability of land depends upon the characteristics of the land like slope, erosion status, soil depth and soil type. Considering these input parameters land capability classification (LCC) software is developed in 'C' programming language. This software can be executed on different platforms like windows, linux etc. mostly without any modification. The developed LCC software is executed successfully with the different conditions. Further the software is tested for Karwadi watershed (survey number 133 and 154) near Nandapur, Tq. Kalamnuri, Dist. Hingoli (M.S.) with different conditions. Field results shown by this LCC software are compared with the results obtained theoretically by considering ranges given in the standard table and were found similar. After successful testing it is concluded that the software is useful for suggesting the soil and water conservation practices for watershed development plan.