Extent of Empowerment of Women Entrepreneurs on Entrepreneurial and Technological Empowerment

Empowerment of women entrepreneurs in the context of technology entails building up the abilities and skills of women to gain insight into the issues affecting them and also building up their capacity to voice their concerns. Technological empowerment of women entrepreneurs will open up avenues to further nrichment. By the use of technology women can broaden the scope of their activities. Hence the present paper focused on analyzing the entrepreneurial and technological empowerment of women entrepreneurs. Majority of the women entrepreneurs had medium level of entrepreneurial and low level of technological empowerment

Climate change effects on Chickpea yield and its variability in Andhra Pradesh, India

Farmers usually do not know the precise output that is affected by climatic factors such as temperature and rainfall and are characterized by inter-annual variability, part of which is caused by global climate change. No study covers the influences of climate factors on yield and yield risk in the context of chickpea farming in Andhra Pradesh, India. In this context, this study aimed to investigate the trends in climate change variables during Rabi season (October to January, 1996-2020) and evaluated their variability on chickpea yields across different agro-climatic zones in Andhra Pradesh by employing Just and Pope production function. Four non-parametric methods-Alexandersson’s Standard Normal Homogeneity Test, Buishand’s Range Test, Pettitt’s Test and Von Neumann’s Ratio Test are applied to detect homogeneity in the data. Mann–Kendall (MK) test and Sen’s slope (SS) method were employed to analyze monthly rainfall trends and minimum and maximum temperature trends. Results of Just and Pope (panel data) quadratic and Cobb-Douglas methods revealed that monthly minimum temperature positively influenced the mean yield of chickpea (0.22% and 0.16%, respectively). However, rainfall (-0.41% and -0.31%) and maximum temperature (-0.08% and -0.04%) negatively influenced the mean yield of chickpea under quadratic and Cobb-Douglas models, respectively. Accordingly, rainfall (0.08% and 0.06%) and maximum temperature (0.83% and 0.72%) positively influenced the yield variability and minimum temperature (-0.77% and -0.67%) reduced yield variability of chickpea under quadratic and Cobb-Douglas models respectively. In view of these findings, it is imperative to advocate the farmers about the importance of cultivating drought-tolerant chickpea varieties, drought-proofing and mitigation strategies, micro-irrigation practices and improving their access to agro-meteorological information towards sustainable chickpea cultivation in Andhra Pradesh

Factors Influencing the Adoption of Pre-and Post-Harvest Management Technologies of Groundnut in Telangana State

Not AvailableGroundnut (Arachis hypogea) is one of the important oilseed crop due to its nutritional value and high consumption all over the world. India ranks second in groundnut production in the world. Groundnut seeds contains (40–56%) edible oil, (20–30%) protein, (10–20%) carbohydrate and several nutritional components. There is a gap between the yield obtained in demonstrations plots and farmers’ fields. There are several reasons that contribute for these yield gaps, non- adoption of recommended technologies is one of the major reason. The reasons for non-adoption may be due to low knowledge and other socio-economic constraints encountered by the farmers. The present study was conducted in Mahabubnagar district of Telangana State. A total of 60 respondents were selected from 8 villages of Koilkonda and Mohammadabad mandals by simple random sampling method. Majority (56.7%) of groundnut farmers belonged to medium level of adoption. The characteristics like age had negative and non significant relationship with extent of adoption of technologies while size of landholding, annual income, farming experience, irrigation potential, social participation, input acquisition pattern, achievement motivation, risk taking ability, market intelligence had positive an significant relationship with extent of adoption technologies and education, annual income, information seeking behaviour and knowledge had positive and highly significant relationship with extent of adoption pre- and post- harvest management technologies of groundnut crop.Not Availabl

Extent of Empowerment of Women Entrepreneurs on Entrepreneurial and Technological Empowerment

Empowerment of women entrepreneurs in the context of technology entails building up the abilities and skills of women to gain insight into the issues affecting them and also building up their capacity to voice their concerns. Technological empowerment of women entrepreneurs will open up avenues to further nrichment. By the use of technology women can broaden the scope of their activities. Hence the present paper focused on analyzing the entrepreneurial and technological empowerment of women entrepreneurs. Majority of the women entrepreneurs had medium level of entrepreneurial and low level of technological empowerment

Implementation of Clustering based Unit Commitment Employing Particle Swarm Optimization

ABSTRACT: Fuel cost savings can be obtained by proper commitment of available generating units. This paper describes a new approach to the unit commitment problem through classification of units into various clusters based on Particle Swarm Optimization. This classification is carried out in order to reduce the overall operating cost and to satisfy the minimum up/down constraints easily. Unit commitment problem is an important optimizing task in daily operational planning of power systems which can be mathematically formulated as a large scale nonlinear mixedinteger minimization problem. A new methodology employing the concept of cluster algorithm called as additive and divisive hierarchical clustering has been employed based on hybrid technique of genetic algorithm and simulated annealing in order to carry out the technique of unit commitment. Proposed methodology involves two individual algorithms. While the load is increasing, additive cluster algorithm has been employed while divisive cluster algorithm is used when the load is decreasing. The proposed technique is tested on a 10 unit system and the simulation results show the performance of the proposed technique

Profile Characteristics of Watershed Farmers and the Extent of Adoption of NRM Practices in Watershed Areas of the Andhra Pradesh State

This study describes the association between the profile characteristics of watershed farmers and the extent of adoption of various NRM (Natural Resource Management) practices in watershed areas of the Andhra Pradesh state. The results indicate that positive and significant relationships were seen between profile characteristics such as training undergone, team work, risk-taking ability, input usage pattern, farm size, environmental awareness and socio-political participation and the extent of adoption of NRM activities. The value of the coefficient of multiple determination (R2) indicates that a combination of six independent variables (farm size, training, input usage pattern, environmental awareness, risk-taking ability and group communication) could explain 78.49 % of the variation in the dependent variable of the extent of adoption of NRM practices

Synthesis of novel substituted tetrahydropyridines, pyrans and thiopyrans

2459-2463A new class of six membered heterocycles, 4,4-disubstituted 2,6-diaryl-3,5-diaroyl tetrahydropyridines/pyrans/thiopyrans are synthesized from 1,5-diaryl-3,3 dimethoxycarbonyl-1,5-pentanedione 1/1,5 -diaryl-3-cyano-3-ethoxycarbonyl-1,5-pentanedione 2/1,5-diaryl-3,3-dicyano-l ,5-pentanedione 3. All the compounds have been characterized by spectral parameters

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Not AvailableCastor is cultivated extensively in Mahaboobnagar district of Andhra Pradesh state because of the commercial importance of its oil. The increase in area and production of castor crop has suddenly come to a hault due to adverse effect of climate variability. Area under castor in Mahabubnagar district is going down due to drought, fear of botrytis and upcoming of competitive crops like Bt Cotton and Maize. Keeping these things in mind a research was carried out to develop a strategy to enhance the adaptability of castor growers towards climate variability. The strategy includes the interventions to be taken up by the research system, extension system, at government level, at community level and at individual level.Not Availabl

Impact of Farmer Producer Organizations on Price and Poverty Alleviation of Smallholder Dry Chillies Farmers in India

This study investigates the impact of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) on smallholder dry chilli farmers in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, with a focus on price realization and poverty alleviation. Two specific FPOs, Red Chilli Farmer Producer Organisation and Spoorthi Chilli Producers Company Ltd., from the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh were chosen for the study based on their substantial business turnover and comprehensive backward and forward linkages to their farmer-members. The smallholder farmers were stratified into two groups viz., treated (161) and untreated (n = 315) based on the FPO membership criterion. The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke model revealed that the poverty incidence among untreated farmers was recorded at 0.691, which was approximately 49 percent higher than the poverty incidence of treated farmers (0.352). The depth and severity of poverty were also greater among untreated farmers, with a poverty depth of 0.494 compared to the lower value of 0.126 observed among treated farmers. The results from Endogenous Switching Regression Model revealed a significant positive relationship between FPO membership and both price realization and poverty alleviation. Farmers with FPO membership experienced 2.11 percent higher prices and 39.14 percent higher annual agricultural income compared to untreated. Factors such as education, adherence to Good Agricultural Practices, farm experience, access to improved inputs, and credit significantly influenced FPO membership. The study concludes that FPO membership plays a crucial role in improving the standard of living for smallholder dry chilli farmers by increasing prices and income. So, this research sheds light on the significance of FPOs in enhancing the economic well-being of smallholder dry chilli farmers in Andhra Pradesh

Synthesis of some novel spiro heterocycles

2628-2634A new class of spiro pyrimidinetriones, thioxopyrimidinediones, pyrazolidinediones and isoxazolidinediones are prepared from dihydro/pyran/thiopyran dicarboxylates