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Export Potential of Horticultural Products: Constraints and Strategies
Get PDFHorticultural sector has the highest potential for export, owing to the wide diversity of horticultural flora, agro-climatic conditions coupled with efficient low cost labour and advantageous geographic location. Indi a has an edge over other producing countries to expand its export basket and exploit the hitherto untapped potential indigenous germplasm. However, the above stated climatic diversity offer equally diverse problems in post harvest handling of produce due to their varying shapes, sizes she lf life , nature of ripening and varied storage, transport and packaging requirements. Marketing is an important step in the post harvest handling of the horticultural produce. It is the most complicated issue that requires better understanding of the complexities and identification of the bottlenecks to provide an efficient solution. An efficient and effective marketing system is a boon to any production system in agriculture and horticulture in particula
Potential location for Flower Processing Units in Karnataka an econometric analysis
No full textJasmine is one of the oldest cultivated flower shrubs. It is estimated that atleast 14500 kg., of cut flowers of different varieties of jasmine are sold everydayin the important cities of Madras, Bangalore, Bombay, Delhi and Calcutta. Alarge quantity of some species is also used for the extraction of essential oil
Agricultural Marketing in the wake of the World Trade Agreement
No full textFor India and the other developing countries, liberalization is an advantage. Initially, many economists were optimistic about being apart of the global village. As time panes, more challenges are coming up leading to more confusion. Given this backdrop, it would be appropriate to collate the relationship between two and its interlinked opportunities in view of open trade polic
Food Security in the Framework of Economic policies
Get PDFFood security in Asia and Pacific has been generally viewed as consisting generally of two important components, viz., availability and access. The former concern the ability, particularly of developing countries in the region to provide enough food for their ever-increasing population. The latter, on the other hand, relates to the ability of the population to obtain food necessary for a healthy life economically and nutritionall
Cost Price Analysis in Sugarcane: A Study in Tamil Nadu, Southern India
Get PDFIndian sugar industry has a unique, intrinsic and symbolic relationship with the livelihood of the rural masses and contributes around 2 per cent to the national gross domestic product. It employs over 40 million cane growers and their families, constituting 7 per cent of the rural population and about 3.5 lakh skilled and unskilled labourers. As a raw material, sugarcane is transported from farms to sugar mills and hence the service sector like transportation is getting developed in addition to rural road development. Sugarcane is the basic raw material for gur making, and gur making is one of the important cottage industries that provides employment to the rural folk, particularly in harvesting, transporting by head load to crushing unit from the field, crushing and gur preparation. Thus, the sugar industry as a whole helps in uplifting the lives of the rural masses. Being the second largest agro-based industry, only next to cotton, it plays a dominant role in promoting the development of both agricultural and industrial economies of the countr
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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