Climate change world and your role

Earth’s climate is always changing. In the past, it has gone through warmer and cooler periods which last for thousands of years. This long term pattern of weather conditions (temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds) prevailing in an area is the Climate change which is the most furious issue of the present world. Climate change is change in the earth’s overall climate or a long term change in the weather pattern of a region for a considerable period of time eg: change in the earth’s global temperature, or its typical precipitation pattern. It can also be any significant long-term change in the expected patterns of average weather of a region across a considerable period of time

Price index number and its application in fish price assessment

Price index number and its application in fish price assessmen

Transportation models: a tool for investigating market performance and efficiency decisions

Transportation models: a tool for investigating market performance and efficiency decision

Assessing the consumer preferences using Conjoint Analysis: An Application in Fisheries Sector

Assessing the consumer preferences using Conjoint Analysis: An Application in Fisheries Secto

Indian Fish Exports and Dependence on P. vannamei: share and externalities

Indian Fish Exports and Dependence on P. vannamei: share and externalitie

A performance appraisal of Theeramythri Activity Groups in Kerala

Women empowerment is a process in which women challenge the existing norms and culture, to effectively promote their well-being. The Theeramythri programme of Society for assistance to Fisherwomen (SAF) facilitates and handholds fisherwomen to engage in gainful self-employment for their economic and social emancipation. The participation of fisher women in SAF activity groups has made a significant impact on their both in social and economic aspects. The SAF visions to initiate encourage and strengthen locally organized activity groups among fisherwomen, thereby providing assistance for expertising their business development skill, resource utilization and management, performance improvement, networking and marketing. This study addresses performance appraisal of SAF Theeramythri, activity groups of the Coastal districts of Kerala. The study identified that more than 300 million rupees has been provided as grant to these groups and these groups had been instrumental in empowering the fisherwomen in Kerala. The study focused on identifying the different aspects of the performance appraisal of the activity groups with an aim on analysing the present status SAF activity groups and its impact on the empowerment of the poor fisherwomen, Identifying the critical attributes determining the performance/non-performance of innovators and laggards, analyzing the performance/positive changes of the different categories of the activity groups after involving in the Theeramythri project. Average and percentage analysis was carried out to draw meaningful interpretation of the results. Garrette ranking technique, weighted average analysis, factor analysis and step wise regression methods have been implied to analyse various aspects of the performance level of the different activity groups of SAF. The study also established the pivotal role SAF plays in achieving the goals of empowering fisherwomen and developing sustainable and commercially viable business models. The results of the study revealed that the SAF have got huge impact on both economic and social aspects of the beneficiaries

காலநிலை மாற்றத்தைக் கட்டுப்படுத்துவதில் சமூகத்தின் பங்கு (ClimEd Series:3D)

காலநிலை மாற்றத்தைக் கட்டுப்படுத்துவதில் சமூகத்தின் பங்கு (ClimEd Series:3D

Training Manual on Theeranaipunya III Scaling up Fisher Youth Domains in Cognitive Development

The fisherwomen in Kerala assume significance due to their involvement in fish related activities leading to distribution, availability and value addition. The traditional fisherwomen play an pivotal role in the fisheries sector in terms of their involvement in fish related activities viz., fish vending, fish drying, prawn peeling, sorting, grading, fish packing, and net making. Even though at many times their services are unnoticed and under rewarded. With the changing scenario and the increasing social welfare schemes from the government to revive this sector, the youth of this community has started participating in the socio economic activities of the society and therefore there is a need to reshape their own perception of how they view themselves. The main objective of this training is to screen out those barriers that stand in the way for their overall development. The training sessions will provide insight to gain new skills that will improve their functional efficiency and will help them to step up as women youth and take the lead to revive their community. I am sure that the training programme will help them to increase their capabilities and bring out the best in them. The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi (CMFRI) is a reputed ICAR organization which deals with various issues pertaining to fisheries and fisher folk. CMFRI has wide experience in conducting customized training programme to the different stakeholder over the years in niche areas of fisheries research and development. The Socio -Economic Evaluation and technology transfer (SEETT) Division is essentially involved in research on socioeconomics which consists of both Fisheries Economics and Fisheries Extension