Transfer of technology on Tree Rich Biobooster to Irular tribes in forest fringe villages of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (India): An alternate source of livelihood support

Author(s):  
Govindaraj Divya ◽  
Kannappan Subramaniam Rathinam ◽  
Ramasamy Sumathi ◽  
Devaraj Suresh Babu ◽  
Natchiappan Senthilkumar

In recent years, significant of Foreign Direct Investment has been increasing especially in the developing countries. These countries are trying their level best to attract more and more FDI. Foreign Direct Investment takes place when a company invests directly in the production or marketing of a product in a foreign country.FDI is defined as an investment involving a long term relationship that reflects the long term interest and control of a resident entity in the host country. Industrial investment plays a significant role in the development of a country. Broadly there are two types of foreign investment viz., foreign direct investment and portfolio investment. The developments are easily possible through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) because it helps to bring close the different economies of the world by investing capital in a country. Capital formation is an important determinant of economic growth. While domestic investments add to the capital stock in an economy, FDI plays a complementary role in overall capital formation and filling up the gap between domestic savings and investment. Foreign investment plays an important role in the long term economic development by augmenting availability of capital, enhancing competitiveness domestic economy through transfer of technology, strengthening infrastructure, raising productivity, generating new employment opportunities and boosting exports. The Government has implemented several reforms in recent years to attract more FDIs. These include improving infrastructure, revising the law on the land acquisition, reforming labour law and rationalizing the process of obtaining environmental clearances. In this article researcher focused on industrial opportunities and challenges in Tamil Nadu for industrial development of the state.


Author(s):  
S. Venkadesh ◽  
R. Jagannathan ◽  
K. P. Ragunath

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Remote sensing satellites in recent years have emerged as a vital tool for generating the biophysical information, which further helps to evolve the optimal land use plan for sustainable development of an area. The natural resources are to be categorized to obtain the area best suitable for crop production so that they could be better utilized in agricultural planning. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) has been widely used to monitor moisture-related vegetation condition. The 8-day composite and spatial resolution of 250&amp;thinsp;m for the years 2002&amp;ndash;2012 have obtained from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer (MODIS) Surface Reflectance (MOD09A) used for grouping biomass. The MOD09A product was selected because it consisted of both visible and infrared bands, which is requisite for deriving NDVI. The NDVI was used to determine the biomass categorization had four classes B1 (NDVI of 0.06&amp;ndash;0.10), B2 (0.1 to 0.2), B3 (0.2&amp;ndash;0.4) and B4 (&amp;gt;&amp;thinsp;0.4) which were rated as poor, moderate, good and excellent, respectively. Here, excellent biomass category was found to cover more area compared to other biomass categories. The per cent area covered under excellent category was (88.7 %) in Salem district. This showed that the agriculture area in this district is largely suitable for crop growth. The categorization of biomass as good to excellent in Salem might be due to the good seasonal (both monsoon) rainfall. It could pave way for better agricultural management and transfer of technology.</p>


In India about 760 millions of farmers are engaged in agriculture. According to an estimate more than 60 per cent of the farmers have no access to any source of modern agriculture information. Reaching to these unreached farmers is a great big challenge before the extension system. Now times 21st century declared to be the age of information and communication technology. This is the time when more people everywhere are involved in acquiring new knowledge and skills. The need of ICT interventions are felt need of the hour in agriculture. Thus, it can be said that the twenty first century, it is necessary to use advanced communication media for rural and agricultural development in its proper perspective of message dissemination and feedback along with people’s participation and contribution so as to meet the felt needs of people living under diverse socio-economic conditions and here an extension agent should act as a catalyst for transfer of farm technologies. Hence, a present study was taken to assess the utilization pattern of ICT tools among extension personnel. The present study was conducted in Cuddalore District of Tamil Nadu. The 120 extension personnel working in the state department of agriculture were selected as sample for the study by simple random sampling method. The Data were collected through well structured questionnaire. Careful analysis, tabulation and classification of data were done. Mean, frequency, percentage were employed for the interpretation of results. The results showed that majority (70.83 per cent) of the extension personnel were utilized the internet / web services for gaining knowledge followed by (41.67 per cent) of the extension personnel were utilized agriportals for transfer of technology


ENTOMON ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-188
Author(s):  
T. Sharmitha ◽  
C. Gailce Leo Justin ◽  
S. Sheeba Joyce Roseleen ◽  
P. Yasodha

Three species of parasitoids viz., Telenomus dignus Gahan, Trichogramma japonicum, Ishii and Tetrastichus schoenobii Ferriere were recorded from the egg masses of rice yellow stem borer, Scirpophaga incertulas (Walker) in a field study. The extent of parasitism was high during Rabi (43.33 – 93.33 %) and low during Kharif (0 - 40.00 %). Parasitism by T. dignus was maximum in October (50.00 %), T. japonicum, in November (23.08 %) and T. schoenobii in February (55.55 %). dignus and T. schoenobii in combination parasitized maximum number of egg masses (41.82 %). Multiple parasitism by the three species was high in December (8.33 %) and January (7.14%). Parasitic potential was maximum, when T. schoenobii alone parasitised the egg masses followed by T. dignus and T. schoenobii in combination. Host density in the field influenced the extent of parasitism.


2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (12) ◽  
pp. 320-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. SHANKAR P. SHANKAR ◽  
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Dr. S. RAMACHANDRAN Dr. S. RAMACHANDRAN
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