Marketing Constraints Faced by the Banana Growers in Theni District

Banana is one of the most important commercial tropical fruits traded. Eve was said to have used Banana leaves to cover modesty in the Garden of Paradise as revealed from antiquity. Banana is thus called “Apple of Paradise”. It is also known as “Adam Fig”. Theni district was purposively selected for the present study in the first stage since it occupied the first position in area under Banana in the state of Tamil Nadu. The villages of selected four blocks were noted and three villages were selected at random from each block. Altogether twelve villages were selected for the study. From each selected blocks fifteen banana growers were selected by random sampling technique. Thus the total sample size arrived was 90. Findings of the study showed that the constraints expressed by Banana growers are inadequate transport facility was the major problem faced by farmers with a mean score of 61.40 per cent.

ROAD TRANSPORT INFORMATION SYSTEM: A PANACEA FOR ROAD TRANSPORT FACILITY MANAGEMENT IN KATSINA LOCAL GOVERNMENT, KATSINA STATE, NIGERIA

This study aimed at examining the spatial pattern of RTF within Katsina Local Government with a view to developing a comprehensive Road Transport Facility Information System (RTFIS) to enable efficient management and planning for sustainable development. Analogue record (maps and attributes) of the existing RTF were obtained from the relevant departments, and were updated with the data obtained through field and GPS surveys, and Google Earth image (2019). QGIS 3.8 software was used for Nearest Neighbor Analysis, developing comprehensive database and series of spatial and attributes queries in order to demonstrate the capability of Geospatial technology in efficient management of RTF information. The result revealed a dispersed distribution pattern of Roundabouts within the study area with nearest neighbor ratio of 1.3 and z-score value of 2.9. It is therefore recommended that the departments involved in RTF management should embrace Geospatial technology as one of the contemporary methods for efficient managing, manipulating, retrieving and updating RTF records for sustainable urban development.

Design and Implementation of Children Safety System using Iot

At this moment structure for growing youth’s security is proposed. The accentuation is on the consistently course from home to class and the different way, usage of school transports. IOT perspective is manhandled together with different constraint strategies for instance.RFID and GPS, in order to structure a response for gatekeepers prepared to ensure their youth's following the key steps to class or home, for instance by having the educational transport to login school or exit institution again having transport facility. At that moment pertinence radio frequency card advancement powerful after capacities attempted in youths' following and seeing during their excursion to and in institution for institution transports. In course of action analyzed with respect to advancements and building and the essential model is presented. Finally a test arranges is needed to check the correct movement of the system.

Personal safety and improvements concerns in public places

Purpose Crime in public places is an increasing concern for the police, users of public places and the general public at large. Significantly, users of public transport facilities consistently perceive their risks from crime to be considerably higher, hurting levels of patronage. The aim of this study is to examine concerns for personal safety and measures that could improve sense of personal safety in a Nigerian public transport facility. This study further examines whether respondents’ perceptions determine frequent use of this public place. Explanatory factors are personal safety and place improvements concerns ratings. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a case study. The selection of this was accomplished using carefully defined criteria in previous studies. The research process consists of three steps the on-site assessment, objective insecurity assessment and subjective insecurity survey. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected. Quantitative data were explored using mean ranking, percentages and correlation, whereas qualitative information was analysed using narrative techniques of reporting. To define the major determinants of the frequent use of this public place, a multiple ordinary least squares regression was constructed for variables in the correlation model. Findings Results show that places within the site are not designed to meet crime prevention through environmental design strategies, as 625 crimes were documented with thefts well above other listed crimes. Respondents exhibited a significant level of concern for their safety across all the factors enumerated while the most important improvements concern was enhancements to lighting. Generally, findings suggest that there is still much to be done to improve elements of surveillance, access control, territoriality, image management and activity support on the site. Regression model shows that efforts to enhance perceived safety of users would have major significance on the frequent use of this facility. Practical implications Policies on public place developments should be mainly in terms of tackling the environmental design of car parks and the effects of darkness at night time. This should involve improvement of lighting and the installation of CCTV, security camera as well as constant maintenance of bushes, vegetation, plants, trees and other elements of the landscape. Furthermore, the aesthetics of the site has to be attractive to users. The site and its closest surroundings have to be well-maintained and cared for. Besides, place lines and private areas must be defined with plants, pavement treatments, short walls or fences. Originality/value Previous studies on safety and security of public transport places, particularly rail facility, have mainly concentrated on the relations between fear of crime, perceived safety and place improvement concerns. To the best of authors’ knowledge, no study till date has explored how they correlate to the patronage of the transport facility, particularly in the sub-Saharan nations. This study contributes to existing literature having revealed perceived personal safety and transport place improvements concerns to be another important dimension of rail transport patronage in the Nigerian context.

An Assessment of Public Transport Facility in Johor Bahru: a case study in Taman Ungku Tun Aminah Area, Majlis Perbandaran Johor Bahru Tengah, Malaysia

Provision of public transport infrastructure is important to increase the ridership and at the same time decrease the use of private transport. Like the other Malaysian cities, Johor Bahru is mostly dependent on private vehicles such as motor cars and motor cycles. The ridership on public transport especially public bus is getting lower over the years. In this situation the sustainability in transportation and land use cannot be ensured. This paper aims to assess the public transport facility in Taman Ungku Tun Aminah in Johor Bahru which is very old and traditional residential area with some major extent of commercial and educational land uses. The actual scenario of public transport service and underlying problems that impeded the residents to use public bus service is observed in this paper. The possible options for the improvement of the bus service and turning it into an effective short and medium length inter town travel media are also discussed as well. Both the primary and secondary information are collected for the purpose of study. Various descriptive statistical data analysis are done in order to get the expected outcome from the collected data. According to this study only 26.7% of the respondents use public bus for their daily travel. The opinion of the respondents is taken for the underlying causes of their reluctance on using public bus service and also the effective measures for the enhancement of this service to the users like them. Finally some recommendations and strategic actions and policy frameworks are also suggested in this paper.