scholarly journals The protective and attractive covering of a vegetated embankment using coir geotextiles

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Vishnudas ◽  
H. H. G. Savenije ◽  
P. Van der Zaag ◽  
K. R. Anil ◽  
K. Balan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Watershed Management ◽  
South India ◽  
Soil Moisture Content ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Content Protection ◽  
Small Scale Industry ◽  
Steep Slopes

Abstract. This paper presents the results of a field experiment conducted in Kerala, South India, to test the effectiveness of coir geotextiles for embankment protection. The results reveal that treatment with geotextile in combination with grass is an effective eco-hydrological measure to protect steep slopes from erosion. In the context of sustainable watershed management, coir is a cheap and locally available material that can be used to strengthen traditional earthen bunds or protect the banks of village ponds from erosion. Particularly in developing countries, where coir is abundantly available and textiles can be produced by small-scale industry, this is an attractive alternative for conventional methods. This paper analyses the performance of coir geotextile in different treatments with respect to soil moisture content, protection against erosion and biomass production.

scholarly journals Experimental study using coir geotextiles in watershed management

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 2327-2348 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Vishnudas ◽  
H. H. G. Savenije ◽  
P. van der Zaag ◽  
K. R. Anil ◽  
K. Balan
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Field Experiment ◽  
Watershed Management ◽  
South India ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Small Scale Industry ◽  
Conventional Methods

Abstract. This paper presents the results of a field experiment conducted in Kerala, South India, to test the effectiveness of coir geotextiles for embankment protection. In the context of sustainable watershed management, coir is a cheap and locally available material that can be used to strengthen traditional earthen bunds or protect the banks of village ponds from erosion. Particularly in developing countries, where coir is abundantly available and textiles can be produced by small-scale industry, this is an attractive alternative for conventional methods.

‘We are all sondukarar (relatives)!’: kinship and its morality in an urban industry of Tamilnadu, South India

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEERT DE NEVE
Keyword(s):  
Informal Economy ◽  
South India ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Shop Floor ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Small Scale Industry ◽  
The Face ◽  
Repeated Use

AbstractThis article is concerned with the role of kinship and kin morality in contexts of work in South Asia. It focuses on the highly ambivalent nature of kin morality when mobilised outside the household and the family. Ethnographic evidence from a small-scale industry in Tamilnadu, South India, shows how employers frequently invoke the morality of kinship and caste in an attempt to secure a reliable and compliant labour force and to avoid overt class confrontation. However, employers’ efforts to promote kinship—real or fictive—and its morality in the workplace appear inadequate in the face of high labour turnover and frequently collapsing employer-worker relationships in small-scale industries. While employers’ repeated use of kin ideology succeeds in silencing the workers on the shop floor, it is much less effective in securing a stable labour force in the long run. The argument put forward here points to the limits of kin morality and questions its effectiveness in informal contexts of labour employment. The discussion sheds new light on the role of caste and kinship in recruiting, retaining and disciplining labour in India's informal economy.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial developments and small scale industry contribution to Nigerian national development- A marketing interface

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayozie Daniel Ogechukwu
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
National Development ◽  
Operational Definition ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Marketing Practice ◽  
Small Scale Industry ◽  
Nigerian Government ◽  
The Government

In both developed and developing countries, the government is turning to small and medium scale industries and entrepreneurs, as a means of economic development and a veritable means of solving problems. It is a seedbed of innovations, inventions and employment. Entrepreneurship is as old as Nigeria and had contributed to the growth of the economy. Presently in Nigeria, SMEs assist in promoting the growth of the country’s economy, hence all the levels of government at different times have policies which promote the growth and sustenance of SMEs. This paper identifies the orientation of SME’s and entrepreneurial trends in Nigeria, tackles the operational definition and scopes, and describes the role of the Nigerian government as a participant, regulator and facilitator, both legally and politically in the growth of SMEs and entrepreneurship. It identifies the marketing problems of SMEs and entrepreneurships in Nigeria, the provision and enactment of beneficial and supportive laws, the provision of infrastructural facilities, constant man-power and development, direct financial assistance to SMEs and the establishment of finance institutions to support SMEs. It identifies the roles of SMEs in Nigeria’s development and growth. It discusses the entrepreneurial thoughts, problems and advance practical marketing solution. It concludes by clearly specifying the role of marketing to the survival of SMEs and entrepreneurship in Nigeria, and relevant recommendations. For SMEs to survive marketing practice and principles must be given prominence.

Need for Corporate Governance in Small Scale Industry

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 119-121
Author(s):  
Vasu Jalari ◽  
◽  
Dr. M. Devarajulu Dr. M. Devarajulu
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Small Scale Industry

PERILAKU PERAJIN DALAM MENINGKATKAN KINERJA PASAR*

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
P. Eko Prasetyo
Keyword(s):  
National Development ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Market Penetration ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Market Conduct ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Small Scale Industry ◽  
Positive Discrimination ◽  
Equal Right

This study has taken position for developing of small-scale industry (SSI) is necessary strategy or market conduct policy and market performance. For that objective, the realization steps needed are: (a) re-examining about national development objective; (b) conducting political system restructurization that enable all people has equal right to participate in the economic sectors; (c) allocating and distributing economic resources and production facilities in equitable manner especially for rural people; and also (d) making more deep market penetration for goods and services of SSI through issuing inceptives and positive discrimination policies for SSI in supplying their production input, production process and marketing. Promotion intensification and nourishing cooperation with another kind of enterprise will be a beneficial.

Impact Of Human Resource Practices In Small Scale Industries In Thoothukudi District Of Tamilnadu

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 160-169
Author(s):  
Srimo Fernandas
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Average Income ◽  
Small Scale Industry ◽  
Human Resource Management Practices ◽  
Small Scale Industries

In the economic growth of a country, the human factor plays a vital role. The study has been made to study the growth of small scale industries in the development of human resource management practices of in Thoothukudi district. The study has the following objectives. To study the socio-economic outline of the small scale industry owners. To understand the nature of management of the small-scale industry. To find out the motivational factors for starting small-scale industries. To analyse the average income generated by different activities by the small scale industry owners.

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