Bücher von Mushtaq Ahmad

The life insurance is indeed the most important among all forms of insurance for all human being. The theory of insurance can be understood in general terms that the good fortune of the many compensates for the misfortune of the few. The insurance is used as a social security device for meeting out the unforeseen losses arising through a certain risk out of accumulated funds. The cost of such miss happenings cannot be met by any one individual, and so the insurance company chargedsome nominal amount in exchange for the risk undertaken. However there is an increase in investment oriented products in the market and as a result has tended to overshadow the primary purpose of protection against premature death.

Substitution and adulteration in traded herbal raw material are common practice in the herbal industry due to the extinction of required species, deforestation and incorrect taxonomical identification.

Specific case studies are provided in which edible wild plants are used to reduce food insecurity, and the diversity of edible wild plants is studied from a global perspective. In developing countries, a significant obstacle to human survival is the increasing gap between food availability and the growing human population.

Covering 100 medicinal plant species of the Lesser Himalayas including Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, this book reviews ethnobotanical aspects, marketing and anthropogenic pressures, and also includes scientific description and traditional uses.