The paper focused on the role of extension service providers in ensuring that
mechanization is adopted at the grassroot level among farmers. Information
dissemination, farmers’ education and awareness creation in motivating the
smallholder farmers to utilizing these farm machineries optimally plats a major role
"Indian Agriculture and Mechanization" presented by Gajendra Singh, at NSD/IFPRI workshop on "Mechanization and Agricultural Transformation in Asia and Africa", June 18-19, 2014, Beijing, China
Lecturers’ Perception on Agriculture Mechanization in Rivers State, NigeriaAI Publications
The study investigated lecturers’ perception on agricultural mechanization in Rivers state, Nigeria. A descriptive survey design was adopted, four research questions which sought the information regarding benefits, awareness, challenges and solutions guided the study. Population of the study comprises 360 lecturers from three tertiary institutions in Rivers state. Data collection was achieved using a questionnaire comprising 32 items and rated on a five point likert scale. Mean was used for data analysis. For results, regarding benefits, the respondents agreed that agricultural mechanization boosts food production but disagree that it boosts employment of labour. For awareness, lecturers were generally aware of mechanization in agriculture. For challenges, they perceived lack of skills to use mechanized farm equipment as one challenge to mechanization. They perceived that favourable government policies could enhance agricultural mechanization. The study recommend that awareness on agricultural mechanization should be created and government set up agricultural machinery industries for developing and hiring out mechanized farm tools at subsidized rates to farmers.
"Agricultural Mechanization in Bangladesh: Role of Policies and Emerging Private Sector" presented by M.A. Sattar Mandal at NSD/IFPRI workshop on "Mechanization and Agricultural Transformation in Asia and Africa", June 18-19, 2014, Beijing, China
Agriculture sector in India by Sangram PisatSangram Pisat
The economy of India lies in the agriculture sector of India. Employment factor in rural area depends on agriculture sector. Agriculture sector in India has such enormous power which can affect world economy.
This presentation contains overview, analysis and growth drivers of agriculture industry in India. It gives you the information regarding problems faced by Indian agriculture sector.
The peer-reviewed International Journal of Engineering Inventions (IJEI) is started with a mission to encourage contribution to research in Science and Technology. Encourage and motivate researchers in challenging areas of Sciences and Technology.
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR FOOD SECURITY AND FARMER WE...Hermanto .
This paper describes policy direction and its implications for food security and farmers’ welfare. Applying this, the paper focuses on performance of agricultural development, which will be started by having a good grip of some issues and challenges in facing food security
Agricultural Mechanization: A Catalyst for Increased Production of Food, Ra...Adekanye Timothy
This seminar looks at the prospects of agriculturalmechanization as a good strategy to ensuring food security, raw materials for agro-allied industries and enhanced financial status of farmers in Nigeria.
"Indian Agriculture and Mechanization" presented by Gajendra Singh, at NSD/IFPRI workshop on "Mechanization and Agricultural Transformation in Asia and Africa", June 18-19, 2014, Beijing, China
Lecturers’ Perception on Agriculture Mechanization in Rivers State, NigeriaAI Publications
The study investigated lecturers’ perception on agricultural mechanization in Rivers state, Nigeria. A descriptive survey design was adopted, four research questions which sought the information regarding benefits, awareness, challenges and solutions guided the study. Population of the study comprises 360 lecturers from three tertiary institutions in Rivers state. Data collection was achieved using a questionnaire comprising 32 items and rated on a five point likert scale. Mean was used for data analysis. For results, regarding benefits, the respondents agreed that agricultural mechanization boosts food production but disagree that it boosts employment of labour. For awareness, lecturers were generally aware of mechanization in agriculture. For challenges, they perceived lack of skills to use mechanized farm equipment as one challenge to mechanization. They perceived that favourable government policies could enhance agricultural mechanization. The study recommend that awareness on agricultural mechanization should be created and government set up agricultural machinery industries for developing and hiring out mechanized farm tools at subsidized rates to farmers.
"Agricultural Mechanization in Bangladesh: Role of Policies and Emerging Private Sector" presented by M.A. Sattar Mandal at NSD/IFPRI workshop on "Mechanization and Agricultural Transformation in Asia and Africa", June 18-19, 2014, Beijing, China
Agriculture sector in India by Sangram PisatSangram Pisat
The economy of India lies in the agriculture sector of India. Employment factor in rural area depends on agriculture sector. Agriculture sector in India has such enormous power which can affect world economy.
This presentation contains overview, analysis and growth drivers of agriculture industry in India. It gives you the information regarding problems faced by Indian agriculture sector.
The peer-reviewed International Journal of Engineering Inventions (IJEI) is started with a mission to encourage contribution to research in Science and Technology. Encourage and motivate researchers in challenging areas of Sciences and Technology.
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR FOOD SECURITY AND FARMER WE...Hermanto .
This paper describes policy direction and its implications for food security and farmers’ welfare. Applying this, the paper focuses on performance of agricultural development, which will be started by having a good grip of some issues and challenges in facing food security
Agricultural Mechanization: A Catalyst for Increased Production of Food, Ra...Adekanye Timothy
This seminar looks at the prospects of agriculturalmechanization as a good strategy to ensuring food security, raw materials for agro-allied industries and enhanced financial status of farmers in Nigeria.
Transforming Agrarian Economy through Innovative Science and Technologydewaliroy
Agriculture is the backbone of Indian Economy. In spite of having Higher Production Still Our agriculture system is technology deficit which is stopping us to attain a sustainable Agriculture System with Higher Productivity. Adopting Innovative Technology and linking it with the Agrarian Society will help us to bring the Transformation In Indian Agriculture.
The world is entering a period of economic uncertainty and the impact on global
economic growth is ambiguous. In contrast, these uncertainties are balancing on
emerging markets’ growth prospects particularly in India. Agriculture has always
been associated with the production of basic food crops. Agriculture and farming
were synonymous so long as farming was not commercialised. But as the process of
economic development accelerated, many other occupations allied to farming came to
be recognised as part of agriculture. Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood
for about 60% of India’s population (Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural
Households, conducted by the National Sample Survey Office). The farming industry
will become arguably more important than ever before in the next few decades.
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the world will need to
produce 70% more food in 2050 than it did in 2006 to feed the growing population of
the earth (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, 2012).To meet the
growing demand, farmers and agricultural companies are embracing technology for
analytics and greater production capabilities. In rural India, agriculture being one of
the largest sources of livelihood is exposed to periodic droughts and floods, and
farmers lack market access, marketing networks, and information systems. This paper
conceptualizes smart farming effectiveness and the main lessons that emanate from
this paper are that Internet of Things (IoT), combined with big data, provides farmers
with a wealth of information that they can use to maximize productivity in the
vulnerable environment and maintain the quality of food in the supply chain.
Agro Buzz - Farm Mechanization in IndiaGodrejAgrovet
Mechanized agriculture has not been given its due in our country. While government efforts are in place, they are not significant in terms of crop productivity, farm incomes and the well-being of farmers in general.
This article talks about the Union Budget 2009-2010 and gives details whether it fits together with the vision 2020. It has been co- authored by Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Director of the prestigious Welingkar Institute of Management and Research.
Android Based Solution for Indian Agriculture Management A Design PaperEditor IJCTER
The Agriculture business domain, as a vital part of the overall supply chain, is expected to highly evolve in the upcoming years via the development, which are the taking place on the side of the future application. Smart phone technology creates new opportunities for farm management application in small farms. Farmers working on small farm are now able with a low cost smart phone and the specialized application to obtain facilities the couldn’t have on their hands before.
The use of this application in a smart phone can overleap the high difficulties of farm management requirements which were stand as obstacle for many years so far. Tasks such as field
definition, task operation, lists and report and all farming use data can be submitted and carried on together in a smart phone at any farm working condition. This application suitable for farmers. Many times farmers are confused to take decision regarding selection of fertilizer, pesticide and time to do
particular farming action. So to avoid this problem this application is very useful. Fertilizer schedule
of each type of crop will get registered. Based on sowing date of crop, farmers will get reminders about fertilizer as per schedule.
Assessing the determinants of agricultural commercialization and challenges c...Olutosin Ademola Otekunrin
This study assesses the agricultural commercialization levels, determinants, and challenges confronting smallholder cassava farmers in Oyo State, Nigeria. This study was conducted in Oyo State, Nigeria using cross-sectional data from 211 smallholder cassava farmers and employing multi-stage sampling procedures. Descriptive statistics, Crop Commercialization Index (CCI), and Ordered Logit Model (OLM) were used to analyze the data collected. The results revealed that 83.9% of the cassava farmers participated in the commercialization of their cassava roots while the remaining farmers were non-participants. The greatest challenge faced by the cassava farmers in the study area was the incessant attacks by the Fulani herdsmen (destroying growing cassava on the farm) while other challenges included cassava cyclical gluts and poor access road. Moreover, OLM revealed that age, farm size, cassava marketing experience and distance to market had significant influence on commercialization levels of cassava farmers. However, in order to enhance increased commercialization levels of cassava farmers and peaceful coexistence in the study area, policies and intervention programmes that will facilitate rural infrastructure development and proffer lasting solution to the farmers-herders crisis should be given upmost priority.
Mainstreaming sustainability in the Nigerian agricultural transformation agendaPremier Publishers
The Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) Programme is assessed to examine its ability to deliver the required socio-economic impact to resource-poor rural farmers that would not put in jeopardy the welfare of future generations. The programme’s approach to fertilizers and other inputs is examined in the light of more sensible alternatives. The heavy reliance on chemical fertilizers and other inputs without mitigating propositions is a major flaw of the ATA. Its ambiguity on genetically modified organism may result in the penetration of harmful varieties into the country. It is observed that the haste to achieve spectacular targets may have made it trade sustainability for performance. The paper also observes that the ATA continues with the extractive orientation where the rural farmer acts as a natural resource to be exploited to serve the purposes of the elite, as evidenced by the dominance of foreign actors in major contracts of the ministry. The paper concludes that though the ATA makes pronouncements on the issue of sustainability and the targeting of resource-poor farmers, its body language seems to disagree. It is suggested that a rigorous drive to incorporate organic fertilizers be embarked upon as part of the fertilizer policy, and more effective needs assessment be carried out to determine the needs of the poor farmer. It is further suggested that the government should establish a more robust partnership with universities of agriculture and faculties of agriculture in Nigerian universities in the design and implementation of the ATA.
Transforming Agrarian Economy through Innovative Science and Technologydewaliroy
Agriculture is the backbone of Indian Economy. In spite of having Higher Production Still Our agriculture system is technology deficit which is stopping us to attain a sustainable Agriculture System with Higher Productivity. Adopting Innovative Technology and linking it with the Agrarian Society will help us to bring the Transformation In Indian Agriculture.
The world is entering a period of economic uncertainty and the impact on global
economic growth is ambiguous. In contrast, these uncertainties are balancing on
emerging markets’ growth prospects particularly in India. Agriculture has always
been associated with the production of basic food crops. Agriculture and farming
were synonymous so long as farming was not commercialised. But as the process of
economic development accelerated, many other occupations allied to farming came to
be recognised as part of agriculture. Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood
for about 60% of India’s population (Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural
Households, conducted by the National Sample Survey Office). The farming industry
will become arguably more important than ever before in the next few decades.
According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the world will need to
produce 70% more food in 2050 than it did in 2006 to feed the growing population of
the earth (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, 2012).To meet the
growing demand, farmers and agricultural companies are embracing technology for
analytics and greater production capabilities. In rural India, agriculture being one of
the largest sources of livelihood is exposed to periodic droughts and floods, and
farmers lack market access, marketing networks, and information systems. This paper
conceptualizes smart farming effectiveness and the main lessons that emanate from
this paper are that Internet of Things (IoT), combined with big data, provides farmers
with a wealth of information that they can use to maximize productivity in the
vulnerable environment and maintain the quality of food in the supply chain.
Agro Buzz - Farm Mechanization in IndiaGodrejAgrovet
Mechanized agriculture has not been given its due in our country. While government efforts are in place, they are not significant in terms of crop productivity, farm incomes and the well-being of farmers in general.
This article talks about the Union Budget 2009-2010 and gives details whether it fits together with the vision 2020. It has been co- authored by Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Director of the prestigious Welingkar Institute of Management and Research.
Android Based Solution for Indian Agriculture Management A Design PaperEditor IJCTER
The Agriculture business domain, as a vital part of the overall supply chain, is expected to highly evolve in the upcoming years via the development, which are the taking place on the side of the future application. Smart phone technology creates new opportunities for farm management application in small farms. Farmers working on small farm are now able with a low cost smart phone and the specialized application to obtain facilities the couldn’t have on their hands before.
The use of this application in a smart phone can overleap the high difficulties of farm management requirements which were stand as obstacle for many years so far. Tasks such as field
definition, task operation, lists and report and all farming use data can be submitted and carried on together in a smart phone at any farm working condition. This application suitable for farmers. Many times farmers are confused to take decision regarding selection of fertilizer, pesticide and time to do
particular farming action. So to avoid this problem this application is very useful. Fertilizer schedule
of each type of crop will get registered. Based on sowing date of crop, farmers will get reminders about fertilizer as per schedule.
Assessing the determinants of agricultural commercialization and challenges c...Olutosin Ademola Otekunrin
This study assesses the agricultural commercialization levels, determinants, and challenges confronting smallholder cassava farmers in Oyo State, Nigeria. This study was conducted in Oyo State, Nigeria using cross-sectional data from 211 smallholder cassava farmers and employing multi-stage sampling procedures. Descriptive statistics, Crop Commercialization Index (CCI), and Ordered Logit Model (OLM) were used to analyze the data collected. The results revealed that 83.9% of the cassava farmers participated in the commercialization of their cassava roots while the remaining farmers were non-participants. The greatest challenge faced by the cassava farmers in the study area was the incessant attacks by the Fulani herdsmen (destroying growing cassava on the farm) while other challenges included cassava cyclical gluts and poor access road. Moreover, OLM revealed that age, farm size, cassava marketing experience and distance to market had significant influence on commercialization levels of cassava farmers. However, in order to enhance increased commercialization levels of cassava farmers and peaceful coexistence in the study area, policies and intervention programmes that will facilitate rural infrastructure development and proffer lasting solution to the farmers-herders crisis should be given upmost priority.
Mainstreaming sustainability in the Nigerian agricultural transformation agendaPremier Publishers
The Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) Programme is assessed to examine its ability to deliver the required socio-economic impact to resource-poor rural farmers that would not put in jeopardy the welfare of future generations. The programme’s approach to fertilizers and other inputs is examined in the light of more sensible alternatives. The heavy reliance on chemical fertilizers and other inputs without mitigating propositions is a major flaw of the ATA. Its ambiguity on genetically modified organism may result in the penetration of harmful varieties into the country. It is observed that the haste to achieve spectacular targets may have made it trade sustainability for performance. The paper also observes that the ATA continues with the extractive orientation where the rural farmer acts as a natural resource to be exploited to serve the purposes of the elite, as evidenced by the dominance of foreign actors in major contracts of the ministry. The paper concludes that though the ATA makes pronouncements on the issue of sustainability and the targeting of resource-poor farmers, its body language seems to disagree. It is suggested that a rigorous drive to incorporate organic fertilizers be embarked upon as part of the fertilizer policy, and more effective needs assessment be carried out to determine the needs of the poor farmer. It is further suggested that the government should establish a more robust partnership with universities of agriculture and faculties of agriculture in Nigerian universities in the design and implementation of the ATA.
Agriculture has been the major source of livelihood in Nigeria, primarily because the environment is favorable for Agricultural practice. On the basis of climate, topography and vegetation the country is divided into five agricultural zones, namely Dry sub humid, Sub-humid, very humid and swamp/flood. Subsistence agriculture formed the major system of farming in the olden days which provide food crops for human consumption, while surplus are transported to the local markets for sale. Subsistence agriculture also forms the basis upon which all other system of farming are built. Hence, this paper examines the problems and prospects of subsistence agriculture in Ibarapa East local Government Area of Oyo State. Ten farming centres were used as samples in the area. Questionnaires were used to collect relevant data. Percentage and T-test distribution techniques were used to analyze the data. The findings show that there is low agricultural production in the study area as a result of problems such as shortage of fund, land tenure system, inadequate transportation system among others.
Effects of Farm Mechanization on the Lives of Rice Farm Workers of Cabanatuan...IJAEMSJORNAL
The effects of farm mechanization on the lives of rice farm laborers in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, were investigated in this descriptive study. Snowball sampling and a survey questionnaire with a consent form were used to collect data. Frequency count, percentages, and weighted mean were utilized to treat and analyze the data. The study's findings found that farm mechanization benefited farmer machine operators in earning more money through faster operations and that they are still regularly employed to work during cropping seasons. Despite this, the respondents see a considerable decrease in the number of rice field laborers.
Analysis of Resource Use Efficiency in Small-Scale Maize Production in Tafawa...IOSRJAVS
his paper analyzed the resource-use efficiency of small-scale Maize production in Tafawa-Balewa local government area of Bauchi State. Data were collected from a sample of 120 Maize farmers selected through multi-stage sampling procedure using questionnaire and analyzed using simple descriptive statistics, double-log function and marginal value productivity analysis. The result showed that 90.17% had formal education; 51.67% were males; 90.17% were between the ages of 21-50. Majority 72.50% were married. In terms of farming experience, majority (86.67%) of the respondent had farming experience between 5-20 years. 75.00% had no contact with extension. The double-log function gave the best fit with Adjusted R2 of 81.16%. Production inputs such as seed, fertilizer, labour affected output significantly. Maize production in the study area has an increasing return to scale from the sum of elasticity of production (1.747). Seed and fertilizer were underutilized in Maize production, whereas labour was over used. The major problem confronting the farmers include high cost of inputs (77.50%); Untimely disbursement of credit/inputs (62.50; inadequate extension services (59.17); unstable price (41.67%); draught (33.33%), inadequate credit facilities (31.67%) etc. Profit could be enhanced by increasing the quantity used of seed and fertilizer inputs, its timely supply. Labour should be reduced to optimum level for increase output and total revenue respectively. It is also recommended that extension education and financial support to farmers be improved to allow them increase output and total revenue. There is need for adjustment in resource use in order to improve farm profit at this level of technology used by Maize farmers in the study area.
Determinants of Adoption of Improved Agricultural Technology and Its Impact o...Premier Publishers
The importance of agricultural technology in enhancing production and productivity can be realized when yield increasing and technologies are widely been used and diffused. Standing from this logical ground, this paper aimed at identifying the factors affecting agricultural technology adoption decision and examining the impact of adoption on household’s income in chiro district west Hararghe zone, Oromia national regional state, Ethiopia. Both primary and secondary data was used; primary data was collected through structured questionnaire administered on 97 randomly selected smallholder farmers and secondary data was collected from published and unpublished document related to this topic. For data analysis purpose both Probit and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression models were employed. From the total 97 respondents 80 of them were adopted improved agricultural Technology while the left were not adopted improved agricultural technology in the study area. The regression result revealed that agricultural technology adoption has a positive and significant effect on household income by which adopters are better-offs than non-adopters. The probit regression result revealed that gender of the household head; access to irrigation, credit service; extension service and income of the household head significantly affect adoption of improved agricultural technology in the study area. From these finding researchers recommend that government should encourage small scale irrigation, credit service and extension service in the study area.
Analysis of Resource Use Efficiency in Small-Scale Maize Production in Tafawa...IOSRJAVS
This paper analyzed the resource-use efficiency of small-scale Maize production in Tafawa-Balewa local government area of Bauchi State. Data were collected from a sample of 120 Maize farmers selected through multi-stage sampling procedure using questionnaire and analyzed using simple descriptive statistics, double-log function and marginal value productivity analysis. The result showed that 90.17% had formal education; 51.67% were males; 90.17% were between the ages of 21-50. Majority 72.50% were married. In terms of farming experience, majority (86.67%) of the respondent had farming experience between 5-20 years. 75.00% had no contact with extension. The double-log function gave the best fit with Adjusted R2 of 81.16%. Production inputs such as seed, fertilizer, labour affected output significantly. Maize production in the study area has an increasing return to scale from the sum of elasticity of production (1.747). Seed and fertilizer were underutilized in Maize production, whereas labour was over used. The major problem confronting the farmers include high cost of inputs (77.50%); Untimely disbursement of credit/inputs (62.50; inadequate extension services (59.17); unstable price (41.67%); draught (33.33%), inadequate credit facilities (31.67%) etc. Profit could be enhanced by increasing the quantity used of seed and fertilizer inputs, its timely supply. Labour should be reduced to optimum level for increase output and total revenue respectively. It is also recommended that extension education and financial support to farmers be improved to allow them increase output and total revenue. There is need for adjustment in resource use in order to improve farm profit at this level of technology used by Maize farmers in the study area.
Uday salunkhe challenges and opportunties for agri sector in indiaudaysalunkhe
This article talks about the Challenges and opportunities for agriculture sector in India. It has been co- authored by Dr. Uday Salunkhe, Director of the prestigious Welingkar Institute of Management and Research
Assessing agricultural commercialization and rural infrastructure development...Olutosin Ademola Otekunrin
This study assessed agricultural commercialization and rural infrastructure development of smallholder cassava farmers in rural Southwestern Nigeria. The study was conducted in Nigeria with cross-sectional data collected from 352 smallholder cassava farmers. Crop commercialization index (CCI) was used to compute each farmer’s CCI and categorized into four levels while ordered logit model was employed to analyze the determinants of agricultural commercialization of cassava farmers in the study areas. Availability of some important rural infrastructures were assessed across cassava farmers’ commercialization levels. The results revealed that 13.1 % of cassava farmers did not participate in the sale of cassava roots while 86.9 % of them participated actively in the output market. T he mean and maximum CCI in the study areas was 59.1 and 95.5 respectively. The results also showed that less than 40 % and 20 % of cassava farmers in all commercialization levels had access to electricity and piped water respectively. The ordered logit regression analysis indicated that age, transport cost, cassava marketing experience, and distance to market were among the determinants of agricultural commercialization. Therefore, stakeholders should expedite policy actions capable of promoting rural infrastructure development that will enhance agricultural production, marketing and improve the quality of life of rural farming communities.
Assessing agricultural commercialization and rural infrastructure development...Olutosin Ademola Otekunrin
Abstract: This study assessed agricultural commercialization and rural infrastructure development of smallholder cassava farmers in rural Southwestern Nigeria. The study was conducted in Nigeria with cross-sectional data collected from 352 smallholder cassava farmers. Crop commercialization index (CCI) was used to compute each farmer’s CCI and categorized into four levels while ordered logit model was employed to analyze the determinants of agricultural commercialization of cassava farmers in the study areas. Availability of some important rural infrastructures were assessed across cassava farmers’ commercialization levels. The results revealed that 13.1 % of cassava farmers did not participate in the sale of cassava roots while 86.9 % of them participated actively in the output market. T he mean and maximum CCI in the study areas was 59.1 and 95.5 respectively. The results also showed that less than 40 % and 20 % of cassava farmers in all commercialization levels had access to electricity and piped water respectively. The ordered logit regression analysis indicated that age, transport cost, cassava marketing experience, and distance to market were among the determinants of agricultural commercialization. Therefore, stakeholders should expedite policy actions capable of promoting rural infrastructure development that will enhance agricultural production, marketing and improve the quality of life of rural farming communities.
Effects of Agricultural Extension Services on the Performance of Members of W...ijtsrd
This study dwelt on Effects of Agricultural Extension Services on the Performance of Members of Women Agricultural Cooperatives in Southeast Nigeria. Nigerian agricultural system has not been living up to expectation, despite the wide range of programmes, policies and approaches that have been formulated for its enhancement and sustenance. Multistage random sampling technique was adopted to select 399 respondents of the women agricultural cooperative members. Primary data was sourced through the use of structured questionnaire. Data collected were analyzed with both descriptive and inferential statistics with the help of SPSS version 23 and strata 14 software. The descriptive statistics used include frequency distribution table, simple percentages, weighted mean and mean threshold of five point likert scale measure while inferential statistics used include regression, and ANOVA, which were used for the test of hypotheses formulated. The result of hypothesis one revealed that the socioeconomic characteristics of the members of the women agricultural cooperative have significant influence on the use of extension services with Age 2.07 ,level of education 3.39 ,main occupation 2.46 and income 3.25.Hypotheses 2 and 3 also revealed that the level of use of agricultural extension services have significant effect on the women's income and output performance indices with F statistics value of 107.42 ,72.11 and r 0.4622,0.3658 respectively. It is recommended that women farmers need education and training for better understanding of extension services and programmes which will provide assistance to them, for improved agricultural production. Women agricultural cooperative members need training on financial inclusion that they can use all available sources of credit for enhancement of agricultural activities and this will boost food security in the Southeast and Nigeria in general. Okafor I. P. | Umebali E. E "Effects of Agricultural Extension Services on the Performance of Members of Women Agricultural Cooperatives in South East, Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-1 , December 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd29544.pdfPaper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/agricultural-engineering/29544/effects-of-agricultural-extension-services-on-the-performance-of-members-of-women-agricultural-cooperatives-in-south-east-nigeria/okafor-i-p
Determinants of Farmers’ Adoption of Agricultural Development Programme Exten...BRNSS Publication Hub
The study analyzed the determinants of farmers’ adoption of Agricultural Development Programme (ADP)
extension technology packages in Ivo L.G.A of Ebonyi State. Multistage sampling procedure was employed
to select 80 farmers and eight extension agents who formed the respondents for the study. Data were
collected through the aid of questionnaire and interview schedule whereas the analysis was done using
descriptive and inferential statistics suiting each specific objective. The result showed that most of the
farmers (82.50%) and extension agents (75%) were males, respectively. Evidence showed that the mean age
of the farmers was 37 years while the mean age of the extension agents was 44 years. It was obvious that
67.50% and 75% of the farmers and extension agents were, respectively, married. The mean annual income
of the farmers and extension agents was ₦98,070 and ₦504,200, respectively. The result showed further
that about 81.9% change in the dependent variable (adoption of extension technology packages) was caused
by variations of socio-economic characteristics included in the regression model. The following were the
research recommendations; educational facilities should be made available for rural farmers to enhance
easy adoption of ADP extension technology packages to enhance production; government and NGOs should
endeavor to subsidize the cost of ADP extension technology packages to enhance easy adoption by rural
farmers; and credit institutions are advised to give farmers loans to enhance their accessibility of ADP
extension technology packages in the area
Review of the Role of Orphan Crops in Food Security
Methods of Rice Technology Adoption Studies in the Philippines and Other Asian Countries: A Systematic Review
Competitiveness of Indian Agricultural Exports: A Constant Market Share Analysis
Role of Agroforestry on Farmland Productivity in Semi-arid Farming Regions of Zimbabwe
Land Use, Productivity, and Profitability of Traditional Rice–Wheat System Could be Improved by Conservation Agriculture
Drivers of Improved Cassava Variety Adoption among Farmers in Oyo State, NigeriaPremier Publishers
Low cassava productivity in Nigeria has been linked to low adoption of modern technologies amongst farmers, creating a large gap between the current and the potential yield of cassava. Therefore, this study examined the level of adoption of improved cassava variety (TME 419) and its drivers among cassava farmers in Oyo state, Nigeria. Data collected from 236 cassava farmers with the aid of structured questionnaires were analyzed using descriptive statistics, adoption index and logit regression model. Results showed that cassava farmers in Oyo state were 49 years of age with farming experience of 21 years and farm size of 4 ha. About 69% of surveyed farmers adopted the improved cassava variety while the adoption coefficient was 0.66. The likelihood of adopting improved cassava varieties was significantly influenced by education, household size, primary occupation, farming experience, farm size, land ownership and age. Therefore, increasing the years of farmers’ education, farm size, ownership of land, entry of younger farmers, household size and non-farm occupation will increase the likelihood of adopting improved cassava variety among farmers.
Submission Deadline: 30th September 2022
Acceptance Notification: Within Three Days’ time period
Online Publication: Within 24 Hrs. time Period
Expected Date of Dispatch of Printed Journal: 5th October 2022
MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND WHITE LATER THICKNESS IN WIRE-...IAEME Publication
White layer thickness (WLT) formed and surface roughness in wire electric discharge turning (WEDT) of tungsten carbide composite has been made to model through response surface methodology (RSM). A Taguchi’s standard Design of experiments involving five input variables with three levels has been employed to establish a mathematical model between input parameters and responses. Percentage of cobalt content, spindle speed, Pulse on-time, wire feed and pulse off-time were changed during the experimental tests based on the Taguchi’s orthogonal array L27 (3^13). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed that the mathematical models obtained can adequately describe performance within the parameters of the factors considered. There was a good agreement between the experimental and predicted values in this study.
A STUDY ON THE REASONS FOR TRANSGENDER TO BECOME ENTREPRENEURSIAEME Publication
The study explores the reasons for a transgender to become entrepreneurs. In this study transgender entrepreneur was taken as independent variable and reasons to become as dependent variable. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire containing a five point Likert Scale. The study examined the data of 30 transgender entrepreneurs in Salem Municipal Corporation of Tamil Nadu State, India. Simple Random sampling technique was used. Garrett Ranking Technique (Percentile Position, Mean Scores) was used as the analysis for the present study to identify the top 13 stimulus factors for establishment of trans entrepreneurial venture. Economic advancement of a nation is governed upon the upshot of a resolute entrepreneurial doings. The conception of entrepreneurship has stretched and materialized to the socially deflated uncharted sections of transgender community. Presently transgenders have smashed their stereotypes and are making recent headlines of achievements in various fields of our Indian society. The trans-community is gradually being observed in a new light and has been trying to achieve prospective growth in entrepreneurship. The findings of the research revealed that the optimistic changes are taking place to change affirmative societal outlook of the transgender for entrepreneurial ventureship. It also laid emphasis on other transgenders to renovate their traditional living. The paper also highlights that legislators, supervisory body should endorse an impartial canons and reforms in Tamil Nadu Transgender Welfare Board Association.
BROAD UNEXPOSED SKILLS OF TRANSGENDER ENTREPRENEURSIAEME Publication
Since ages gender difference is always a debatable theme whether caused by nature, evolution or environment. The birth of a transgender is dreadful not only for the child but also for their parents. The pain of living in the wrong physique and treated as second class victimized citizen is outrageous and fully harboured with vicious baseless negative scruples. For so long, social exclusion had perpetuated inequality and deprivation experiencing ingrained malign stigma and besieged victims of crime or violence across their life spans. They are pushed into the murky way of life with a source of eternal disgust, bereft sexual potency and perennial fear. Although they are highly visible but very little is known about them. The common public needs to comprehend the ravaged arrogance on these insensitive souls and assist in integrating them into the mainstream by offering equal opportunity, treat with humanity and respect their dignity. Entrepreneurship in the current age is endorsing the gender fairness movement. Unstable careers and economic inadequacy had inclined one of the gender variant people called Transgender to become entrepreneurs. These tiny budding entrepreneurs resulted in economic transition by means of employment, free from the clutches of stereotype jobs, raised standard of living and handful of financial empowerment. Besides all these inhibitions, they were able to witness a platform for skill set development that ignited them to enter into entrepreneurial domain. This paper epitomizes skill sets involved in trans-entrepreneurs of Thoothukudi Municipal Corporation of Tamil Nadu State and is a groundbreaking determination to sightsee various skills incorporated and the impact on entrepreneurship.
DETERMINANTS AFFECTING THE USER'S INTENTION TO USE MOBILE BANKING APPLICATIONSIAEME Publication
The banking and financial services industries are experiencing increased technology penetration. Among them, the banking industry has made technological advancements to better serve the general populace. The economy focused on transforming the banking sector's system into a cashless, paperless, and faceless one. The researcher wants to evaluate the user's intention for utilising a mobile banking application. The study also examines the variables affecting the user's behaviour intention when selecting specific applications for financial transactions. The researcher employed a well-structured questionnaire and a descriptive study methodology to gather the respondents' primary data utilising the snowball sampling technique. The study includes variables like performance expectations, effort expectations, social impact, enabling circumstances, and perceived risk. Each of the aforementioned variables has a major impact on how users utilise mobile banking applications. The outcome will assist the service provider in comprehending the user's history with mobile banking applications.
ANALYSE THE USER PREDILECTION ON GPAY AND PHONEPE FOR DIGITAL TRANSACTIONSIAEME Publication
Technology upgradation in banking sector took the economy to view that payment mode towards online transactions using mobile applications. This system enabled connectivity between banks, Merchant and user in a convenient mode. there are various applications used for online transactions such as Google pay, Paytm, freecharge, mobikiwi, oxygen, phonepe and so on and it also includes mobile banking applications. The study aimed at evaluating the predilection of the user in adopting digital transaction. The study is descriptive in nature. The researcher used random sample techniques to collect the data. The findings reveal that mobile applications differ with the quality of service rendered by Gpay and Phonepe. The researcher suggest the Phonepe application should focus on implementing the application should be user friendly interface and Gpay on motivating the users to feel the importance of request for money and modes of payments in the application.
VOICE BASED ATM FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED USING ARDUINOIAEME Publication
The prototype of a voice-based ATM for visually impaired using Arduino is to help people who are blind. This uses RFID cards which contain users fingerprint encrypted on it and interacts with the users through voice commands. ATM operates when sensor detects the presence of one person in the cabin. After scanning the RFID card, it will ask to select the mode like –normal or blind. User can select the respective mode through voice input, if blind mode is selected the balance check or cash withdraw can be done through voice input. Normal mode procedure is same as the existing ATM.
IMPACT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AMONG...IAEME Publication
There is increasing acceptability of emotional intelligence as a major factor in personality assessment and effective human resource management. Emotional intelligence as the ability to build capacity, empathize, co-operate, motivate and develop others cannot be divorced from both effective performance and human resource management systems. The human person is crucial in defining organizational leadership and fortunes in terms of challenges and opportunities and walking across both multinational and bilateral relationships. The growing complexity of the business world requires a great deal of self-confidence, integrity, communication, conflict and diversity management to keep the global enterprise within the paths of productivity and sustainability. Using the exploratory research design and 255 participants the result of this original study indicates strong positive correlation between emotional intelligence and effective human resource management. The paper offers suggestions on further studies between emotional intelligence and human capital development and recommends for conflict management as an integral part of effective human resource management.
VISUALISING AGING PARENTS & THEIR CLOSE CARERS LIFE JOURNEY IN AGING ECONOMYIAEME Publication
Our life journey, in general, is closely defined by the way we understand the meaning of why we coexist and deal with its challenges. As we develop the "inspiration economy", we could say that nearly all of the challenges we have faced are opportunities that help us to discover the rest of our journey. In this note paper, we explore how being faced with the opportunity of being a close carer for an aging parent with dementia brought intangible discoveries that changed our insight of the meaning of the rest of our life journey.
A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PERFO...IAEME Publication
The main objective of this study is to analyze the impact of aspects of Organizational Culture on the Effectiveness of the Performance Management System (PMS) in the Health Care Organization at Thanjavur. Organizational Culture and PMS play a crucial role in present-day organizations in achieving their objectives. PMS needs employees’ cooperation to achieve its intended objectives. Employees' cooperation depends upon the organization’s culture. The present study uses exploratory research to examine the relationship between the Organization's culture and the Effectiveness of the Performance Management System. The study uses a Structured Questionnaire to collect the primary data. For this study, Thirty-six non-clinical employees were selected from twelve randomly selected Health Care organizations at Thanjavur. Thirty-two fully completed questionnaires were received.
Living in 21st century in itself reminds all of us the necessity of police and its administration. As more and more we are entering into the modern society and culture, the more we require the services of the so called ‘Khaki Worthy’ men i.e., the police personnel. Whether we talk of Indian police or the other nation’s police, they all have the same recognition as they have in India. But as already mentioned, their services and requirements are different after the like 26th November, 2008 incidents, where they without saving their own lives has sacrificed themselves without any hitch and without caring about their respective family members and wards. In other words, they are like our heroes and mentors who can guide us from the darkness of fear, militancy, corruption and other dark sides of life and so on. Now the question arises, if Gandhi would have been alive today, what would have been his reaction/opinion to the police and its functioning? Would he have some thing different in his mind now what he had been in his mind before the partition or would he be going to start some Satyagraha in the form of some improvement in the functioning of the police administration? Really these questions or rather night mares can come to any one’s mind, when there is too much confusion is prevailing in our minds, when there is too much corruption in the society and when the polices working is also in the questioning because of one or the other case throughout the India. It is matter of great concern that we have to thing over our administration and our practical approach because the police personals are also like us, they are part and parcel of our society and among one of us, so why we all are pin pointing towards them.
A STUDY ON TALENT MANAGEMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE RETENTION IN SELECTED...IAEME Publication
The goal of this study was to see how talent management affected employee retention in the selected IT organizations in Chennai. The fundamental issue was the difficulty to attract, hire, and retain talented personnel who perform well and the gap between supply and demand of talent acquisition and retaining them within the firms. The study's main goals were to determine the impact of talent management on employee retention in IT companies in Chennai, investigate talent management strategies that IT companies could use to improve talent acquisition, performance management, career planning and formulate retention strategies that the IT firms could use. The respondents were given a structured close-ended questionnaire with the 5 Point Likert Scale as part of the study's quantitative research design. The target population consisted of 289 IT professionals. The questionnaires were distributed and collected by the researcher directly. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to collect and analyse the questionnaire responses. Hypotheses that were formulated for the various areas of the study were tested using a variety of statistical tests. The key findings of the study suggested that talent management had an impact on employee retention. The studies also found that there is a clear link between the implementation of talent management and retention measures. Management should provide enough training and development for employees, clarify job responsibilities, provide adequate remuneration packages, and recognise employees for exceptional performance.
ATTRITION IN THE IT INDUSTRY DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: LINKING EMOTIONAL INTE...IAEME Publication
Globally, Millions of dollars were spent by the organizations for employing skilled Information Technology (IT) professionals. It is costly to replace unskilled employees with IT professionals possessing technical skills and competencies that aid in interconnecting the business processes. The organization’s employment tactics were forced to alter by globalization along with technological innovations as they consistently diminish to remain lean, outsource to concentrate on core competencies along with restructuring/reallocate personnel to gather efficiency. As other jobs, organizations or professions have become reasonably more appropriate in a shifting employment landscape, the above alterations trigger both involuntary as well as voluntary turnover. The employee view on jobs is also afflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic along with the employee-driven labour market. So, having effective strategies is necessary to tackle the withdrawal rate of employees. By associating Emotional Intelligence (EI) along with Talent Management (TM) in the IT industry, the rise in attrition rate was analyzed in this study. Only 303 respondents were collected out of 350 participants to whom questionnaires were distributed. From the employees of IT organizations located in Bangalore (India), the data were congregated. A simple random sampling methodology was employed to congregate data as of the respondents. Generating the hypothesis along with testing is eventuated. The effect of EI and TM along with regression analysis between TM and EI was analyzed. The outcomes indicated that employee and Organizational Performance (OP) were elevated by effective EI along with TM.
INFLUENCE OF TALENT MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE A STUD...IAEME Publication
By implementing talent management strategy, organizations would have the option to retain their skilled professionals while additionally working on their overall performance. It is the course of appropriately utilizing the ideal individuals, setting them up for future top positions, exploring and dealing with their performance, and holding them back from leaving the organization. It is employee performance that determines the success of every organization. The firm quickly obtains an upper hand over its rivals in the event that its employees having particular skills that cannot be duplicated by the competitors. Thus, firms are centred on creating successful talent management practices and processes to deal with the unique human resources. Firms are additionally endeavouring to keep their top/key staff since on the off chance that they leave; the whole store of information leaves the firm's hands. The study's objective was to determine the impact of talent management on organizational performance among the selected IT organizations in Chennai. The study recommends that talent management limitedly affects performance. On the off chance that this talent is appropriately management and implemented properly, organizations might benefit as much as possible from their maintained assets to support development and productivity, both monetarily and non-monetarily.
A STUDY OF VARIOUS TYPES OF LOANS OF SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR BANKS...IAEME Publication
Banking regulations act of India, 1949 defines banking as “acceptance of deposits for the purpose of lending or investment from the public, repayment on demand or otherwise and withdrawable through cheques, drafts order or otherwise”, the major participants of the Indian financial system are commercial banks, the financial institution encompassing term lending institutions. Investments institutions, specialized financial institution and the state level development banks, non banking financial companies (NBFC) and other market intermediaries such has the stock brokers and money lenders are among the oldest of the certain variants of NBFC and the oldest market participants. The asset quality of banks is one of the most important indicators of their financial health. The Indian banking sector has been facing severe problems of increasing Non- Performing Assets (NPAs). The NPAs growth directly and indirectly affects the quality of assets and profitability of banks. It also shows the efficiency of banks credit risk management and the recovery effectiveness. NPA do not generate any income, whereas, the bank is required to make provisions for such as assets that why is a double edge weapon. This paper outlines the concept of quality of bank loans of different types like Housing, Agriculture and MSME loans in state Haryana of selected public and private sector banks. This study is highlighting problems associated with the role of commercial bank in financing Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SME). The overall objective of the research was to assess the effect of the financing provisions existing for the setting up and operations of MSMEs in the country and to generate recommendations for more robust financing mechanisms for successful operation of the MSMEs, in turn understanding the impact of MSME loans on financial institutions due to NPA. There are many research conducted on the topic of Non- Performing Assets (NPA) Management, concerning particular bank, comparative study of public and private banks etc. In this paper the researcher is considering the aggregate data of selected public sector and private sector banks and attempts to compare the NPA of Housing, Agriculture and MSME loans in state Haryana of public and private sector banks. The tools used in the study are average and Anova test and variance. The findings reveal that NPA is common problem for both public and private sector banks and is associated with all types of loans either that is housing loans, agriculture loans and loans to SMES. NPAs of both public and private sector banks show the increasing trend. In 2010-11 GNPA of public and private sector were at same level it was 2% but after 2010-11 it increased in many fold and at present there is GNPA in some more than 15%. It shows the dark area of Indian banking sector.
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF MECHANICAL AND TRIBOLOGICAL RELATION OF NYLON/BaSO4 POL...IAEME Publication
An experiment conducted in this study found that BaSO4 changed Nylon 6's mechanical properties. By changing the weight ratios, BaSO4 was used to make Nylon 6. This Researcher looked into how hard Nylon-6/BaSO4 composites are and how well they wear. Experiments were done based on Taguchi design L9. Nylon-6/BaSO4 composites can be tested for their hardness number using a Rockwell hardness testing apparatus. On Nylon/BaSO4, the wear behavior was measured by a wear monitor, pinon-disc friction by varying reinforcement, sliding speed, and sliding distance, and the microstructure of the crack surfaces was observed by SEM. This study provides significant contributions to ultimate strength by increasing BaSO4 content up to 16% in the composites, and sliding speed contributes 72.45% to the wear rate
ROLE OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA - PROBLEMS AND ...IAEME Publication
The majority of the population in India lives in villages. The village is the back bone of the country. Village or rural industries play an important role in the national economy, particularly in the rural development. Developing the rural economy is one of the key indicators towards a country’s success. Whether it be the need to look after the welfare of the farmers or invest in rural infrastructure, Governments have to ensure that rural development isn’t compromised. The economic development of our country largely depends on the progress of rural areas and the standard of living of rural masses. Village or rural industries play an important role in the national economy, particularly in the rural development. Rural entrepreneurship is based on stimulating local entrepreneurial talent and the subsequent growth of indigenous enterprises. It recognizes opportunity in the rural areas and accelerates a unique blend of resources either inside or outside of agriculture. Rural entrepreneurship brings an economic value to the rural sector by creating new methods of production, new markets, new products and generate employment opportunities thereby ensuring continuous rural development. Social Entrepreneurship has the direct and primary objective of serving the society along with the earning profits. So, social entrepreneurship is different from the economic entrepreneurship as its basic objective is not to earn profits but for providing innovative solutions to meet the society needs which are not taken care by majority of the entrepreneurs as they are in the business for profit making as a sole objective. So, the Social Entrepreneurs have the huge growth potential particularly in the developing countries like India where we have huge societal disparities in terms of the financial positions of the population. Still 22 percent of the Indian population is below the poverty line and also there is disparity among the rural & urban population in terms of families living under BPL. 25.7 percent of the rural population & 13.7 percent of the urban population is under BPL which clearly shows the disparity of the poor people in the rural and urban areas. The need to develop social entrepreneurship in agriculture is dictated by a large number of social problems. Such problems include low living standards, unemployment, and social tension. The reasons that led to the emergence of the practice of social entrepreneurship are the above factors. The research problem lays upon disclosing the importance of role of social entrepreneurship in rural development of India. The paper the tendencies of social entrepreneurship in India, to present successful examples of such business for providing recommendations how to improve situation in rural areas in terms of social entrepreneurship development. Indian government has made some steps towards development of social enterprises, social entrepreneurship, and social in- novation, but a lot remains to be improved.
OPTIMAL RECONFIGURATION OF POWER DISTRIBUTION RADIAL NETWORK USING HYBRID MET...IAEME Publication
Distribution system is a critical link between the electric power distributor and the consumers. Most of the distribution networks commonly used by the electric utility is the radial distribution network. However in this type of network, it has technical issues such as enormous power losses which affect the quality of the supply. Nowadays, the introduction of Distributed Generation (DG) units in the system help improve and support the voltage profile of the network as well as the performance of the system components through power loss mitigation. In this study network reconfiguration was done using two meta-heuristic algorithms Particle Swarm Optimization and Gravitational Search Algorithm (PSO-GSA) to enhance power quality and voltage profile in the system when simultaneously applied with the DG units. Backward/Forward Sweep Method was used in the load flow analysis and simulated using the MATLAB program. Five cases were considered in the Reconfiguration based on the contribution of DG units. The proposed method was tested using IEEE 33 bus system. Based on the results, there was a voltage profile improvement in the system from 0.9038 p.u. to 0.9594 p.u.. The integration of DG in the network also reduced power losses from 210.98 kW to 69.3963 kW. Simulated results are drawn to show the performance of each case.
APPLICATION OF FRUGAL APPROACH FOR PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT - A CASE STUDY OF...IAEME Publication
Manufacturing industries have witnessed an outburst in productivity. For productivity improvement manufacturing industries are taking various initiatives by using lean tools and techniques. However, in different manufacturing industries, frugal approach is applied in product design and services as a tool for improvement. Frugal approach contributed to prove less is more and seems indirectly contributing to improve productivity. Hence, there is need to understand status of frugal approach application in manufacturing industries. All manufacturing industries are trying hard and putting continuous efforts for competitive existence. For productivity improvements, manufacturing industries are coming up with different effective and efficient solutions in manufacturing processes and operations. To overcome current challenges, manufacturing industries have started using frugal approach in product design and services. For this study, methodology adopted with both primary and secondary sources of data. For primary source interview and observation technique is used and for secondary source review has done based on available literatures in website, printed magazines, manual etc. An attempt has made for understanding application of frugal approach with the study of manufacturing industry project. Manufacturing industry selected for this project study is Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd. This paper will help researcher to find the connections between the two concepts productivity improvement and frugal approach. This paper will help to understand significance of frugal approach for productivity improvement in manufacturing industry. This will also help to understand current scenario of frugal approach in manufacturing industry. In manufacturing industries various process are involved to deliver the final product. In the process of converting input in to output through manufacturing process productivity plays very critical role. Hence this study will help to evolve status of frugal approach in productivity improvement programme. The notion of frugal can be viewed as an approach towards productivity improvement in manufacturing industries.
A MULTIPLE – CHANNEL QUEUING MODELS ON FUZZY ENVIRONMENTIAEME Publication
In this paper, we investigated a queuing model of fuzzy environment-based a multiple channel queuing model (M/M/C) ( /FCFS) and study its performance under realistic conditions. It applies a nonagonal fuzzy number to analyse the relevant performance of a multiple channel queuing model (M/M/C) ( /FCFS). Based on the sub interval average ranking method for nonagonal fuzzy number, we convert fuzzy number to crisp one. Numerical results reveal that the efficiency of this method. Intuitively, the fuzzy environment adapts well to a multiple channel queuing models (M/M/C) ( /FCFS) are very well.
Industrial Training at Shahjalal Fertilizer Company Limited (SFCL)MdTanvirMahtab2
This presentation is about the working procedure of Shahjalal Fertilizer Company Limited (SFCL). A Govt. owned Company of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation under Ministry of Industries.
NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER IN CONDENSING HEAT EXCHANGERS...ssuser7dcef0
Power plants release a large amount of water vapor into the
atmosphere through the stack. The flue gas can be a potential
source for obtaining much needed cooling water for a power
plant. If a power plant could recover and reuse a portion of this
moisture, it could reduce its total cooling water intake
requirement. One of the most practical way to recover water
from flue gas is to use a condensing heat exchanger. The power
plant could also recover latent heat due to condensation as well
as sensible heat due to lowering the flue gas exit temperature.
Additionally, harmful acids released from the stack can be
reduced in a condensing heat exchanger by acid condensation. reduced in a condensing heat exchanger by acid condensation.
Condensation of vapors in flue gas is a complicated
phenomenon since heat and mass transfer of water vapor and
various acids simultaneously occur in the presence of noncondensable
gases such as nitrogen and oxygen. Design of a
condenser depends on the knowledge and understanding of the
heat and mass transfer processes. A computer program for
numerical simulations of water (H2O) and sulfuric acid (H2SO4)
condensation in a flue gas condensing heat exchanger was
developed using MATLAB. Governing equations based on
mass and energy balances for the system were derived to
predict variables such as flue gas exit temperature, cooling
water outlet temperature, mole fraction and condensation rates
of water and sulfuric acid vapors. The equations were solved
using an iterative solution technique with calculations of heat
and mass transfer coefficients and physical properties.
Understanding Inductive Bias in Machine LearningSUTEJAS
This presentation explores the concept of inductive bias in machine learning. It explains how algorithms come with built-in assumptions and preferences that guide the learning process. You'll learn about the different types of inductive bias and how they can impact the performance and generalizability of machine learning models.
The presentation also covers the positive and negative aspects of inductive bias, along with strategies for mitigating potential drawbacks. We'll explore examples of how bias manifests in algorithms like neural networks and decision trees.
By understanding inductive bias, you can gain valuable insights into how machine learning models work and make informed decisions when building and deploying them.
We have compiled the most important slides from each speaker's presentation. This year’s compilation, available for free, captures the key insights and contributions shared during the DfMAy 2024 conference.
Water billing management system project report.pdfKamal Acharya
Our project entitled “Water Billing Management System” aims is to generate Water bill with all the charges and penalty. Manual system that is employed is extremely laborious and quite inadequate. It only makes the process more difficult and hard.
The aim of our project is to develop a system that is meant to partially computerize the work performed in the Water Board like generating monthly Water bill, record of consuming unit of water, store record of the customer and previous unpaid record.
We used HTML/PHP as front end and MYSQL as back end for developing our project. HTML is primarily a visual design environment. We can create a android application by designing the form and that make up the user interface. Adding android application code to the form and the objects such as buttons and text boxes on them and adding any required support code in additional modular.
MySQL is free open source database that facilitates the effective management of the databases by connecting them to the software. It is a stable ,reliable and the powerful solution with the advanced features and advantages which are as follows: Data Security.MySQL is free open source database that facilitates the effective management of the databases by connecting them to the software.
Cosmetic shop management system project report.pdfKamal Acharya
Buying new cosmetic products is difficult. It can even be scary for those who have sensitive skin and are prone to skin trouble. The information needed to alleviate this problem is on the back of each product, but it's thought to interpret those ingredient lists unless you have a background in chemistry.
Instead of buying and hoping for the best, we can use data science to help us predict which products may be good fits for us. It includes various function programs to do the above mentioned tasks.
Data file handling has been effectively used in the program.
The automated cosmetic shop management system should deal with the automation of general workflow and administration process of the shop. The main processes of the system focus on customer's request where the system is able to search the most appropriate products and deliver it to the customers. It should help the employees to quickly identify the list of cosmetic product that have reached the minimum quantity and also keep a track of expired date for each cosmetic product. It should help the employees to find the rack number in which the product is placed.It is also Faster and more efficient way.
HEAP SORT ILLUSTRATED WITH HEAPIFY, BUILD HEAP FOR DYNAMIC ARRAYS.
Heap sort is a comparison-based sorting technique based on Binary Heap data structure. It is similar to the selection sort where we first find the minimum element and place the minimum element at the beginning. Repeat the same process for the remaining elements.
Hierarchical Digital Twin of a Naval Power SystemKerry Sado
A hierarchical digital twin of a Naval DC power system has been developed and experimentally verified. Similar to other state-of-the-art digital twins, this technology creates a digital replica of the physical system executed in real-time or faster, which can modify hardware controls. However, its advantage stems from distributing computational efforts by utilizing a hierarchical structure composed of lower-level digital twin blocks and a higher-level system digital twin. Each digital twin block is associated with a physical subsystem of the hardware and communicates with a singular system digital twin, which creates a system-level response. By extracting information from each level of the hierarchy, power system controls of the hardware were reconfigured autonomously. This hierarchical digital twin development offers several advantages over other digital twins, particularly in the field of naval power systems. The hierarchical structure allows for greater computational efficiency and scalability while the ability to autonomously reconfigure hardware controls offers increased flexibility and responsiveness. The hierarchical decomposition and models utilized were well aligned with the physical twin, as indicated by the maximum deviations between the developed digital twin hierarchy and the hardware.
Immunizing Image Classifiers Against Localized Adversary Attacksgerogepatton
This paper addresses the vulnerability of deep learning models, particularly convolutional neural networks
(CNN)s, to adversarial attacks and presents a proactive training technique designed to counter them. We
introduce a novel volumization algorithm, which transforms 2D images into 3D volumetric representations.
When combined with 3D convolution and deep curriculum learning optimization (CLO), itsignificantly improves
the immunity of models against localized universal attacks by up to 40%. We evaluate our proposed approach
using contemporary CNN architectures and the modified Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR-10
and CIFAR-100) and ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC12) datasets, showcasing
accuracy improvements over previous techniques. The results indicate that the combination of the volumetric
input and curriculum learning holds significant promise for mitigating adversarial attacks without necessitating
adversary training.
2. Ayotunde Olayinka Owolabi, Ayorinde Ebenezer Kolawole, Abiodun Oladayo Ajala, Adebola
Jones Akangbe, Kayode Samuel Obaniyi, Adeola Temitope Adebimpe and Vitoria Adeniyi
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actualizing mechanized farming among these farmers. It further highlights the various
challenges hampering the operational use of these farm machines by farmers such as
cultural barriers, high cost of machines, low access to credit facilities, high cost of
rental, lack of technical expertise among others. It offers practical guide to solving
these barriers for optimum use of these farm machines by grassroot farmers through
the assistance of extension personnel in creating awareness, and educating the farmers
into embracing farm mechanization, sustaining their interest as regards introduction
of one technology per time, need specification, technical know- how, action and
satisfaction. All of these will help in improving mechanization effectively at the
grassroot level with the assistance of extension personnel.
Keyword: Agricultural Extension, Mechanization, Extension Service Providers,
Farmers.
Cite this Article: Ayotunde Olayinka Owolabi, Ayorinde Ebenezer Kolawole,
Abiodun Oladayo Ajala, Adebola Jones Akangbe, Kayode Samuel Obaniyi, Adeola
Temitope Adebimpe and Vitoria Adeniyi, Grassroot Mechanized Farming: the Role of
Agricultural Extension Providers, International Journal of Civil Engineering and
Technology, 10(02), 2019, pp. 176–182
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1. INTRODUCTION
Mechanized farming might have been adopted by large scale farmers in Africa but its spread
to the grassroot appears to have been impeded by several factors. It has been established that
farming by rural people contributes significantly to food sustainability within Africa. Most
large-scale farmers produce for industries that process agricultural produce for other uses apart
from daily food. Cassava could be processed to make starch for industrial purposes. Palm
kernel could be processed as oil to be used in soap making and several other uses. The farmers
at the grassroot however focus majorly on producing their crops for sale on market days and
this has been found to significantly contribute to consistent food availability in families. It is
however challenging that majority of these farmers age fast due to exertion of power in the
process of cultivation, thereby reducing their level of productivity as they increase in age. The
young ones also lose interest in farming as they see the level of depreciation in the older ones
due to manual approach to farming.
The immense benefit of mechanization in agriculture cannot be overemphasized as it
contributes significantly to increased food production and the entire value chain.
Mechanization of agriculture entails substituting machinery for human power expended on
farm activities for fast, less stressful and increased output in the farming process. In ideal
environments, farmers are expected to use tractors, harvesters, boom sprayers, planters, power
drillers, slashing machines, riggers and single axle multipurpose machine. Compared to human
labour, machines are expected to have optimum productivity. In essence, the land preparation,
soil testing, planting, weeding, application of fertilizer, irrigation, crop protection, harvesting
and all post-harvest activities, processing and marketing could be mechanized (Breuer,
Brenneis & Fortenbacher, 2015).
However, the level of mechanization in African farming system has been estimated to be
at the lowest rung of the ladder of agricultural development (Kirui & Braun, 2018). Small sale
farmers do not have the wherewithal to acquire machineries that have the capacity to improve
their agricultural produce and this keeps them at the lowest level of productivity. This
invariably limits them to subsistence farming. It has been reported by Food and Agricultural
3. Grassroot Mechanized Farming: the Role of Agricultural Extension Providers
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Organization that the decrease in the use of tractor since it peaked in 1986 has been on
consistent downward trend as less than two tractors per 1000 ha are available for cultivation of
arable lands (FAO, 2012).
1.1. Nigeria and the Current State of Agricultural Mechanization
Use of farm machinery at small scale level in Nigeria is at a very low level (Olaoye & Rotimi,
2010). The original intention of the government and leadership of the agricultural sector has
been to popularize the use of machineries to facilitate agricultural practice through indigenous
mechanization and this led to the formation of the National Centre for Agricultural
Mechanization (NCAM). The essence of this Centre is to oversee manufacturing of farm tools,
the standardization and certification of agricultural tools, machines and equipment in Nigeria,
as well as testing and evaluating the suitability of all types of imported and locally developed
agricultural tools, machines and equipment already in use and those proposed to be used in
Nigeria (Anazodo, 1980). The impact of this Centre is a subject to be investigated as it does
not appear that the essence has been considerably achieved.
Material and human resources are expedient in agricultural sector and Nigeria has
abundance of these (UKAID, 2012). Nigeria is reported to have over 163 million population
(NBS, 2012) which constitute her human resources in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors.
An estimated 92.4 million hectares of land could be accounted for as being suitable for
production of crops. It has been found by Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Natural
Resources that yearly cultivation takes just a minimum of 32 million hectare of the available
arable land in Nigeria (FMANR, 2010) and out of the 79 million hectares, only about 32 million
hectare is usually cultivated (FMANR, 2010). It therefore holds that underutilization of
available lands in Nigeria may not be unconnected with dependence on human power to
cultivate the land.
Poverty level in Nigeria has continued to be on the increase despite the fact that 80% of
Nigeria’s population engages in Agriculture (Dauda, Musa and Ahmad, 2012). This realization
establishes the fact that the practice of africulture in Nigeria is not given the right approach
which is mechanization. The rate of food exporting in Nigeria is high despite the fact that higher
percentage of Nigeria’s population engages in agriculture (FAO, 2013). The level of migration
from the rural areas to urban areas has also increased as youths do not see the prospect of
agriculture majorly done through manual process (NPC, 2006).
It is envisaged that if mechanization is given priority in Nigeria, the level of involvement
of youths in agriculture may assume an upward trend. The need for farmers to engage the use
of machines becomes paramount as this has very high potential to enhance agricultural
productivity (FAO, 2008). Unlike Nigeria that has over 80% of her population engaged in
agriculture, America has about 24% and the level of productivity in agriculture far exceeds that
of Nigeria as 95% of her agricultural activities are mechanized (Indian Ministry of Agriculture,
2013). Mechanization therefore occupies a strategic position in the agricultural sector.
Food production could be significantly boosted if mechanization is given the attention it
deserves (Akande, 2009). The need to migrate from manual operations as regards farming had
been canvassed by Dauda, Agidi and Shotunde (2010), explaining that yields accruable from
mechanization supersede those from manual labour and that the inability of local farmers to
meet the need of the growing population will continue to be more conspicuous. Food
sufficiency in Nigeria may therefore not be achievable if mechanization is not given priority
(Olayanju, Clinton, Ojediran, Alake, Okunola, Alhassan, Olaniran and Idahosa, 2018;
Okonkwo, Olaniran,, Ojediran, Olayanju, Ajao & Alake, 2018). Access to tractors at very
subsidized rate becomes necessary as this is a major tool for land clearing and ridges making
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(Maharjah & Cheltin, 2006; Ishola and Adeoti, 2004). Tractor has been lauded as being
synonymous with mechanisation (NAERLS and NPFS, 2011). Several achievements in the
agricultural sector have been related to the use of tractors. Nigeria however does not presently
have required number of tractors that could be engaged by the generality of farmers. Most of
these tractors are available to large scale farmers. Farmers at the grassroot are reported to be
struggling to make ends meet. Although tractor was introduced to Nigeria in the 1950s, its
impact has not been so significant (Dauda et al 2010).
1.2. Impediments to Grassroot Agricultural Mechanization
It has been observed that there are impediments to mechanization of agricultural activities in
Nigeria, especially the rural area where small-scale farmers are predominant. Some of these
challenges could be traced to socio-cultural factors, behavioral issues, poverty, neglect, poor
maintenance culture and other deep-rooted challenges. Access to farm machines is limited and
sometimes non-existent due to poverty level of farmers in the rural community. High cost of
rent, purchase and maintenance are major issues being battled by farmers in rural areas.
Farmers at the grassroot who are supposed to be helped by government do not have adequate
information on loans.
It is also considered inefficient to mechanize small parcel of land as the cost of production
may be higher that the proceeds from the yield. Farm mechanization may also be hindered
through poor electricity distribution at the grassroot level, poor road network, lack of technical
personnel that could help in repair of machines. Level of literacy among rural dwellers also
constitutes another challenge to use of agricultural machines. Focus on the oil sector at the
expense of farming is a major factor that has plagued the agricultural sector and this affects the
commitment of the government to investment in agricultural facilities such as machines
(Faleye, Adebija & Farounbi, 2012).
1.3. Agricultural Extension Providers, Small Scale Farmers and Mechanization
The aim of agricultural extension is to dispense useful information to farmers for knowledge
updating, acquisition of skills, change of attitude and capacity building in the use of
technological devises and machines for optimum agricultural productivity (Rahim, 2008;
2010). Ultimately, extension services are created for the sole purpose of communication on
new innovations, government policy, country situation and general conditions that will improve
the welfare of farmers and reduce loss in the business of agriculture. Agricultural extension
agents are adjudged as the link between the farmers and other stakeholders in agriculture
(Idiegbeyan-Ose, Owolabi, Segun-Adeniran, Aregbesola, Owolabi & Eyiolorunshe, 2018).
Ensuring adoption of mechanization at the grassroot has a lot to do with agricultural
extension officers and their competence with respect to the intermediary role they play between
farmers and government as well as private organizations that relate with farmers for several
reasons. Some of the major activities of extension agents include timely information
dissemination to farmers, organizing of training, educating farmers through farmers field
schools, providing assistance in operational use and repair of machines by linking farmers with
professionals and several other tasks (Zwane 2012; Bitzer 2016).
2. APPROACHES BY EXTENSION PRACTITIONERS IN ENSURING
GRASSROOT ADOPTION OF MECHANIZATION
It is expedient that extension providers motivate rural farmers towards adoption of new
technologies to boost their farm yields. A strategic plan is inevitable as farmers may not be
favorably disposed to new ways of doing things. They may even tie change to taboo, stating
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that their tradition does not permit use of other technology apart from what their forefathers
used in the past. Much more, financial requirements may be a significant limiting factor. Some
of the ways to motivate them include:
I. Attention: This can be initiated by creating awareness, educating farmers and
rendering adequate support to them through the extension personnel known as
‘Subject Matter Specialists’ (SMS) designated for agricultural engineering purpose
in extension organisations. Efforts should be directed at ensuring that farmers are
given maximum support, understanding and encouragement to change their
perspectives in relation to the new and improved way of farming. Education on the
benefits of mechanization should be given to farmers. How to get financial
assistance from government and private organizations should be clearly
communicated. Where and when necessary, extension service providers should
assist them in filling forms and carrying out some administrative processes to
facilitate ease of acquiring loans.
II. Interest sustenance: Extension personnel should ensure they counsel persons
involved in deploying new technologies not to bombard farmers at the grassroot
with ‘too much innovations’ as this may confuse them. One machine should be
introduced per time and farmers should be allowed to get used to such machine by
technically showing them how to operate it before another is introduced. This will
help farmers in sustaining interest and encourage duplication of efforts as they
mobilize other farmers into adopting or using these machines.
III. Need specification: It is the duty of extension service provider to know the need of
a particular community and the kind of technology that will satisfy such needs.
When a specific machine meets the desire of farmers, the extension personnel is
able to recommend these machines or assist in getting it for them if it requires
rentage. As a result, it becomes easier for them to quickly adopt such machines for
their farming purposes.
IV. Technical know-how: The confidence level of farmers needs to be built over a
period of time. Skill acquisition programmes should be organized to give them the
boldness to try their hands on the machines. When they are convinced that they are
able to operate the machine, the rate of adoption increases and ultimately impacts
on their level of productivity.
V. Action: Appreciating the performance of farmers as they use the machines
encourages them to intensify their efforts in the same direction and they will also
encourage others to use the machines. Conscious and intentional actions must be
taken by extension practitioners at ensuring that farmers continuously use the
machines available for agricultural processes.
VI. Satisfaction: The level of satisfaction of farmers with the technology should also be
measured by extension service providers. This can be determined by weighing the
benefit achieved with the use of these farm machines over the manual use or
outdated machines used in time past. It is this process that will confirm if the
machine has met the desire of the farmers. This may lead to the need of introducing
a better machine or maintain the status quo as the case warrants.
3. CONCLUSION
Agricultural extension providers are major agents that should relate with all other disciplines
as they are the link between the farmers and other organizations that may want to deploy new
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Jones Akangbe, Kayode Samuel Obaniyi, Adeola Temitope Adebimpe and Vitoria Adeniyi
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technologies or new ways of doing things. Agricultural engineers need to collaborate with
extension personnel as this will help them to penetrate the farmers and drive the use of
machines in agricultural practices. The extension service providers take on the role of teachers,
motivators and crusaders for change, hence the need to carry them along by other sectors
relating with local farmers. It is anticipated that through steps highlighted in this paper,
extension personnel should be able to promote mechanized farming at the grassroot level in a
way that will ensure a continuous and optimum utilization.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors sincerely thank the management of Landmark University for full sponsorship of
this research work.
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