...Marketing Research Project 2015-2016 Study on mobile phones contribution in better agricultural decision making by Indian Farmers. Report Submitted By- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We wish to express our sincere gratitude to Dr. Jogendra Kumar Nayak, Assistant Professor, for providing us opportunity to pursue work on the project “Study on mobile phones contribution in better agricultural decision making by Indian Farmers” and also for providing us with necessary facilities, freedom of thoughts and actions, and guidance for efficiently conducting our work. We sincerely thank our respondents and our colleagues from the course structure of Marketing Research and all other who were directly or indirectly involved in the project, for entrusting us with the project meanwhile mentoring and guiding us and helping us conduct our work with utmost proficiency. This project gave us an insight in the applications of mobile phones in providing best agro based information to our farmers. Through our study we came to the understanding that exploiting the technological advancements in the agriculture sector can help our producers to a great extent. Group 2|Page Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................................................................... 2 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................. 5 ...
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...motor drive, you'll pass on some knowledge. But you'll pass on much more if you let them view a video on that drive, read the manual, watch another electrician working on it, or listen to a tape on how to troubleshoot it. The more ways you present information, the more your staff will learn and retain. Vary the pace and style of your training. Formal training is good, but informal training fills in many gaps. Magazines, books, and on-the-job training (OJT) are all very useful. Because magazines cover many topics in a single issue, you can bring the knowledge of many experts into one place. Tip 2: Use repetition. Informal training repetition can mean you distill portions of the training into slogans, factoids, and images. Including slips of paper in with paychecks with a sentence or two about some idea can work well with safety training. You can also include photos, illustrations, or icons to get your point across. Even passing around a copy of a magazine article, maybe twice a year, can help employees remember important information. Refresher courses are also a form of formal training repetition. Recap previous sessions before continuing with new material. You may also follow up with annual or semiannual...
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...Emerging Economies: The Story of AMUL Pankaj Chandra Devanath Tirupati Indian Institute of Management Vastrapur, Ahmedabad 380015 India chandra@iimahd.ernet.in devanath@iimahd.ernet.in Revised April 2003 Acknowledgement: We would like to thank BM Vyas, MD, GCMMF, Kailash Vyas, MD, AMUL and many employees of the two organizations for hours of discussion, for making documents on performance and practices available to us for research, and for arranging field visits to various village societies, chilling units, and union plants. We are also grateful to MS Sriram and Partha Mukhopadhyay for their extensive comments on the paper. This project was funded by a grant from Research & Publications, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. Abstract In this paper we describe a case study of a dairy cooperative, AMUL, in western India that has developed a successful model for doing business in large emerging economy. It has been primarily responsible, through its innovative practices, for India to become world’s largest producer of milk. This paper draws various lessons from the experiences of AMUL that would be useful to cooperatives globally as well as firms that are interested in doing business in large emerging markets like India and China. Many of these economies have underdeveloped markets and fragmented supply bases. Market failures for many of these small producers are high. On the other hand, the size of both, markets and the suppliers is large. As a result, firms...
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...The Nutritional Value, Health, and Environmental Implications of Organic Foods QBT1 Research Paper Organic food has grown in popularity over the past 24 years. This is evident in the rapid growth of the organic foods industry, growing by 20% every year since 1990. As of 2005, sales realized within this industry amounted to over 13 billion. The organic food industry is a complex industry that is characterized by fluctuations in consumer preferences which stem from the fact that there is varying scientific information on the safety and benefits of organic foods. Research shows that consumers perceive organic food to be more nutritional, improve general health, and safe for the environment. However, are these general perceptions valid? Do organic foods lead to improved health? And are they truly safe for the environment. Over the past two decades, there has been increasing consumer concern over the health and environmental implications of consuming conventionally grown products and the techniques used by conventional farmers. This largely stems from rigorous consumer awareness programs that have been conducted by a number of environmental groups. Anxiety by consumers over the health and nutritional implications of consuming conventional foods as compared to organic foods led to the increased need for the debate on the environment by marketers of food for consumption by the public masses (Paul & Rana, 2012, p. 412). This increased awareness and anxiety on the part of the...
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...Selected papers from the 9 UN roundtable on communication for development COMMUNICATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT th COMMUNICATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT th Selected papers from the 9 UN roundtable on communication for development Research and Extension Division Natural Resources Management and Environment Department FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Rome, 2007 The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or products of manufacturers, whether or not these have been patented, does not imply that these have been endorsed or recommended by FAO in preference to others of a similar nature that are not mentioned. ISBN 978-92-5-105883-1 All rights reserved. Reproduction and dissemination of material in this information product for educational or other non-commercial purposes are authorized without any prior written permission from the copyright holders provided the source is fully acknowledged. Reproduction of material in this information product for resale or other commercial purposes is prohibited without written permission of the copyright holders. Applications for such permission...
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...A RESEARCH PROPOSAL ON IMPACT OF RURAL BANKING ON RURAL FARMERS IN BANGLADESH INTRODUCTION: Bangladesh is an agro-based country, essentially are endeavoring for rapid development of the country. More or less 80 percent people directly or in directly depend on agriculture for their occupation .But it is a matter of great sorrow that farmers of our country get less facility in agricultural inputs especially agricultural credit. Due to the lack of credit at proper time they cannot produce crops at proper efficiency. So the responsibility of rural banks needs to be increased. Because If current agricultural trends continue, by the year 2020 in Bangladesh food shortage will increase many times, .The lower calorie intake could lead to poverty, malnutrition and hunger. In an attempt to alleviate some of these potential problems, several institutional and non-institutional sources of rural credit have been made available to Africans. It is hoped that, in the long term, credit will enable the poor to invest in agricultural and non-agricultural productive assets, to adopt new technologies and farming methods, and to minimize environmental degradation. Bangladesh, like other developing countries, has traditionally experienced low productivity, low income levels, low domestic savings, unemployment, and malnutrition. The Bangladesh government, through the Bangladesh Bank , established Rural Banks to channel credit to productive rural ventures and promote rural development. Rural...
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...Food, Agriculture, and the Environment Discussion Paper 34 Agricultural Research and Poverty Reduction Peter Hazell and Lawrence Haddad International Food Policy Research Institute 2033 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 U.S.A. August 2001 INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP (TAC), CONSULTATIVE GROUP Copyright © 2001 International Food Policy Research Institute All rights reserved. Sections of this report may be reproduced without the express permission of but with acknowledgment to the International Food Policy Research Institute. ISBN 0-89629-639-3 Foreword v Acknowledgments vi 1. Introduction 1 2. The Nature and Extent of Poverty 3 3. How Agricultural Research Can Help the Poor 9 4. Targeting Agricultural Research to Benefit the Poor 18 5. Strategies for Pro-Poor Agricultural Research 26 6. The Role of Public Research and Extension Systems 35 References 37 Contents iii Tables 1. Trends in child malnutrition in developing countries, by region, 1970–95 6 2. Distribution of land types by region 6 3. Distribution of malnourished children by agroecological zone, 1990 7 4. Comparison of low- and middle-income countries 21 5. Priorities for agricultural research to reduce national poverty by type of adopting region 24 Figures 1. Number of people living on less than $1 a day, 1987 and 1998 4 2. Those living with HIV/AIDS and those newly infected: Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa...
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...respect. Telecommunications operators have already expanded their services and provided specialized agro-based services to the farmers. This paper attempts to investigate the attitude of the farmers about these agro-based services provided by the telecommunication operator. It also explored the characteristics of the user’s and their perception. Data were collected from 120 respondents who were the user of telecommunication operator’s agro-based services from selected areas from August 18 to October 15, 2011. The data were collected through a structured interview schedule. Evidence from interviews, personal observations suggest that most of the user of these services were young, had little farming experience with small farm side and from small to medium families. These services were treated helpful to overcome their obstacles to information collection but still not efficient like the means they use to collect information traditionally. They wanted information in various field of agriculture especially in the area of price, weather information cultivation technique disease treatment, fertilizer dose etc. Small farmers found it as a very effective any of information service especially in case of emergency situation and due to its cost effectiveness. But the mechanism need to use this services found sometimes difficult especially for the illiterate farmers....
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...Hypothesis/Research Questions LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS................... METHODOLOGY/RESEARCH DESIGN * Scope and Limitations …………………………………………………………….. * Procedures * Data Sources * Budget....................................................................................................................... * Instruments * Budget ……………………………………………………………………………... Results and Discussion ……………………………………………………………………. * SWOT Audit ………………………………………………………………………. * SWOT Matrix …………………………………………………………………….. Recommendations ………………………………………………………………………… Summary and Conclusion References Appendices Abstract Extensive importation of foreign products continues to cripple the Jamaican economy. The country imports just about everything as such this limits the amount of foreign exchange that could contribute effectively to the country’s development. The importation of paper is an area of concern which we believe must receive careful attention and must be seriously addressed. Paper is a resource that is utilized daily in many operations if not all and this precious resource has to be imported from other countries while the resources available in the country which could be adequately utilized in producing this heavily used commodity are being wasted. The parish of St. Thomas is indeed a parish that possess a vast amount of coconut husks and hibiscus leaves which could be used to create paper which will...
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...(Gene Kim)……..….….…..….….……….……………..... Moral/Ethical Implications (Gene Kim)………………..….…….….…….………....... References…..….…..…….…….…….…….…..…….……..…..….…..…….…….…. Introduction The world is forever changing. New technologies are being introduced and discovered as generations grow and the need for basic food items is increased. Technology is involved in every facet of our lives. It is used continuously every day whether it be waking up to an alarm clock, watching TV that you recorded on a digital video recorder, brushing your teeth with a mechanical toothbrush, or using your GPS navigation system when going to your latest vacation destination. The latest technology has made it possible for people to communicate with others all over the world in both audio and video formats. Scientists are continuously looking for ways to make living easier and more productive. They are looking for solutions to world hunger, new medical advances to cure cancer and other diseases plaguing the world, and ways to make our society a healthier place to live. In this research paper, we will be discussing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) and their contributions to these causes. We will be examining the history, political, moral, ethical, and many other ways that GMOs have influenced everyday living. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO)...
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...Causes of Global Warming Introduction Scientists have pieced together a record of Earth’s climate that is dating back hundreds of thousands of years and in some cases millions or thousands of millions of years by analyzing a number of indirect measures of tree rings, pollen remains, ice cores and glacier lengths among other features. Research indicates that natural causes are not responsible for the most observed warming and that since the mid-20th century, human activities have become the dominant causes of that warming (Haldar, 2014). In this context, there is going to be an analysis of the main contributors to global warming in the modern day. Major Pollutants Causing Global Warming Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel The global population has become addicted to the use of electricity both at the domestic and the industrial level. The society has become over-reliant on electricity as a source of energy to a level where the government and private firms have had their commitments when it comes to massive production and consumption of electricity. The society’s increasing addition to electricity from coal-burning power plants has been responsible for the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Increased releases of carbon dioxide via this mechanism is going to help in the depletion of the ozone layer in the atmosphere thus exposing the world to increased global warming that is going to facilitate climatic changes that are fatal for the future generations...
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...Occasional Publication 13 OPERATION FLOOD: LITERATURE REVIEW AND RECONCILIATION Nalini Kumar (An Earlier draft of this paper was used as the Background Paper for OED-IRMA Workshop on Impact of Operation Flood held at IRMA, March 17-18, 1997) Institute of Rural Management Anand Post Box 60, Anand-388001, India August, 1997 Contents 1. Introduction ..............................................................................................1 Key Players in the Field ...................................................................1 The Impact of Operation Flood .......................................................2 Women in Operation Flood .............................................................3 Implementation of Operation Flood .................................................4 Sustainability ...............................................................................4 2. Key Players in the Field The Indo-Dutch Group Other Players ...........................................................................5 ....................................................................5 .............................................................................6 3. Production Impact of Operation Flood ....................................................7 Background ................................................................................7 Evidence of Increase in Milk Production ..........................................7 Causes of Growth in Milk...
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...Introduction……………………………………………………………………………….1 Origins of the Organic Movement………………………………………………………...2 Pre-World War II………………………………………………………………….3 Post-World War II………………………………………………………...…........5 Impacts of the Revolution…………………………………………………………………9 Future Plans of the Organic Revolution………………………………………………….10 The Organic Certification Process……………………………………………………….11 Negative Impacts and Criticism of the Organic Movement …………………………….12 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………….13 Works Cited……………………………………………………………………………..14 Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term. -David Suzuki The organic movement has been in swing since the early 1900’s. Many different companies, consumers and governances have all joined the bandwagon and work to further the goals of an organic world. The organic movement is no where near complete and many dedicated individuals are working to further its progress. Many retailers such as Whole Foods, Alfalfa’s, Wild Oats, and Trader Joes, are all companies dedicated to selling all-natural and organic food products to consumers. Even larger retailers like Wal-Mart and Target have opened their doors to a line of organic products. But what exactly does organic mean? Organic is best described as a way of growing...
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...11/23/12 Operation Flood - Research Papers - Mahesh8006 Log In | Essays Book Notes Citation Generator More Sign Up Search 840 000 Essays Taaza Bollywood News Stars, Gossip, Style and More For the New Indian in You! Site Search Web Search Essays » Governments » International Organizations Operation Flood Report | By mahesh8006, Jun 2012 | 4 Pages (824 Words) | 43 Views| Sign Up to access full essay This is a Premium essay Operation Flood was a rural development programme started by India's National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1970. One of the largest of its kind, the programme objective was to create a nationwide milk grid. It resulted in making India the largest producer of milk and milk products, and hence is also called the White Revolution of India. It also helped reduce malpractices by milk traders and merchants. This revolution followed the Indian Green Revolution and helped in alleviating poverty and famine levels from their dangerous proportions in India during the era. Introduction Operation Flood has helped dairy farmers, direct their own development, placing control of the resources they create in their own hands. A 'National Milk Grid', links milk producers throughout India with consumers in over 700 towns and cities, reducing seasonal and regional price variations while ensuring that the producer gets a major share of the price consumers pay. The bedrock of Operation Flood has been village milk producers' cooperatives, which procure...
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...Theoretical Review In ages prior to now the formulation of an agriculture industry was conceptualized, arguably agriculture can be deemed as the first wide scale economic activity. It serves as the sustenance of mankind, the oldest most reliable energy source for human beings; food production. Throughout the ages agriculture as we know it has changed. As economies developed from subsistence to trade and developed trading economies so has agriculture. Currently, in today’s world, we see agriculture as an important industry to any nation. It serves as one of, if not the most, powerful poverty reduction sectors in any nation. This is so because agriculture dominates the rural areas; which are notorious for being resource immobile, isolated and poverty stricken. Henceforth, implications for agriculture and its development becomes an important concern for every nation. Labour being an important factor of production, and one which is most variable in the short run, an analysis on its influence in agricultural production seems almost mandatory. In this sector of interest, the labour available tends to diverge from those of other sectors, in terms of characteristics. Labour in agricultural production is characterized by “a high age of agricultural workers & low levels of educational attainment”(A.Bailey, 2012). This signifies relatively low levels of human capital in the industry and hence restricts the sector from utilizing skilled labour. What...
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