Per se Performance and Variability in Dwarf Roselle Germplasm for Yield and Yield Attributing Traits

A research study was conducted with nine dwarf Roselle germplasm of H. sabdariffa var. sabdariffa at College of Horticulture, Sri Konda Laxman Telangana State Horticultural University, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India during first week, October, 2019 to 2nd week, January, 2020. The analysis of variance for yield and its contributing characters was found to be significant for all the characters. Based on mean performance, the Roselle accession SAS-14139-1 was the best performance for yield, number of fruits per plant and plant height. Seven accessions produced green calices with red tinging, which are having good demand in the market. Good amount of genetic variability was associated with the germplasm for majority of the characters. Significant differences (p<0.05) were observed for yield characters of the accessions. This is an indication that there is a store of genetic variability that can be exploited for the improvement of Roselle in India. There was also pronounced variation in yield and other morphological parameters, suggesting the possibility of evolving higher yield variants of Roselle through proper selection. High heritability was registered with plant height, number of branches per plant and fruit yield per plant. The present study identified agronomically better germplasm for yield exploitation coupled with high heritability characters for future varietal development and use as parents in further breeding programmes in Roselle, a future reliable vegetable crop.

On Constructing a Corruption Principle: The Importance of History and Theory in Practice

Citizens United has stimulated a cottage industry of legal scholarship on corruption. A prominent stream of this literature is self-consciously atheoretical and suggests that the current state of corruption jurisprudence suffers from a misconceived reliance on liberal political theories and a rejection of the public good. We argue that it is impossible to understand specific acts of corruption without a political theory explaining why such actions are wrong. We show that the current jurisprudence relies on a mistaken intellectual history of the public good and a political theory of American constitutionalism that commodifies citizenship and treats political participation as a market good. Pace Teachout, we cannot draw the bright lines many legal scholars desire without a better political theory of the primary goods we want to protect.

From disenchantment to renewal

Evaluation as a free-standing discipline arose out of the ashes of World War II, a time of optimism, when government turned to the academy to guide public policy. The evaluation pioneers shared a bracing vision: a search for truth in the public interest. Seventy years later the glitter has faded, and disenchantment has taken hold. Evaluation, a quintessential public good, has become a market good, and eminent evaluation thinkers are asking the same questions about evaluation that they have been routinely asking of others—with sobering results. Yet, countervailing currents and turbulent streams lie just below the surface. Once a tipping point is reached, a new wave of evaluation diffusion will begin to curl. What might it look like?

PENDAMPINGAN PROGRAM KEMITRAAN PEMASARAN PRODUK HASIL PERIKANAN DI PONDOK PESANTREN SALAFIYAH SYAFI’IYAH SUKOREJO

The assistance of fishery product marketing partnership program is intended as an effort for BUMP to utilize the market potential (offline market) of fishery products at the pondok pesantren Salafiyah Syafi'iyah Sukorejo and at the same time as an effort to increase market segmentation (offline market) of fishery products by UMKM Dapur Sehati. The time of activity is held from March to April 2019. The form of assistance is analyzing the market potential of fishery products at pondok pesantren, determining the superior fishery products processed based on the market potential analysis of pondok pesantren and the added value analysis of fishery products. The assistance results show that 1) The fishery products marketing partnership program at the pondok pesantren Salafiyah Syafi'iyah Sukorejo has resulted in interest from both partners, namely BUMP pondok pesantren Salafiyah Syafi'iyah Sukorejo with UMKM Dapur Sehati to collaborate although it has not reached the agreement on the two partners. 2) The initial product that can be developed and marketed is squid crackers. Squid crackers get a market good response at the pondok pesantren Salafiyah Syafi'iyah Sukorejo. Based on the added value analysis, the production of squid crackers gets an added value of Rp. 11,231,- per kilogram with a added value ratio of 41.60%, labor compensation of Rp. 1,500,- per kilogram of raw material, labor portion 13.36% of added value, profit of Rp. 9,731,- per kilogram and profit rate of 86.64% of added value.

Survey of Cultivated Vegetable Crops in Rupandehi District, Nepal

Vegetable is very nutritious food and is considered to be protective food since it contains high amount of vitamins and minerals and also possesses medicinal value. In the present study, documentation of farmer’s knowledge on cultivated vegetable crops was carried out in Rupandehi district during the year 2016. The objective of this paper is to identify, enumerate and to know the status of vegetable crops in this district. It was carried out by conducting semi-structured interview with the vegetable growing farmers, local people, members of Community Based Organizations with the help of standard questionnaire, checklist, Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and key informant interview. Altogether 50 plant species have been found to be cultivated in commercial scale as vegetable crops in Rupandehi district. Out of 50 plant spp.; 2 families, 4 genera and 5 spp. were monocots; and 9 families, 30 genera and 45 spp. were dicots. It is also found that fruit (55%) is the widely used part of plant as vegetable. Other parts like leaf (21%), inflorescence (4%), root (8%), tuber (2%), corm (6%), and bulb (4%) are also used as vegetable. Most of the vegetable growing farmers (91%) are economically benefited by the cultivation and selling of vegetable than other crops due to easily available seeds, fertilizers and pesticides in market; good facility of irrigation and accessible market in the study area.

The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

The method and practice of placing monetary values on environmental goods and services for which a conventional market price is otherwise unobservable is one of the most fertile areas of research in the field of natural resource and environmental economics. Initially motivated by the need to include environmental values in benefit-cost analysis, practitioners of non-market valuation have since found further motivation in national account augmentation and environmental damage litigation. Despite hundreds of applications and many decades of refinement, shortcomings in all of the techniques remain, and no single technique is considered superior to the others in all respects. Thus, techniques that expand the suite of options available to the non-market valuation practitioner have the potential to represent a genuine contribution to the field. One technique to recently emerge from the economics of happiness literature is the “experienced preference method” or “life satisfaction approach.” Simply, this approach entails the inclusion of non-market goods as explanatory variables within micro-econometric functions of life satisfaction along with income and other covariates. The estimated coefficient for the non-market good yields, first, a direct valuation in terms of life satisfaction and, second, when compared to the estimated coefficient for income, the implicit willingness to pay for the non-market good in monetary terms. The life satisfaction approach offers several advantages over more conventional non-market valuation techniques. For example, the approach does not ask individuals to directly value the non-market good in question, as is the case in contingent valuation. Nor does it ask individuals to make explicit trade-offs between market and non-market goods, as is the case in discrete choice modeling. The life satisfaction approach nonetheless has some potential limitations. Crucially, self-reported life satisfaction must be regarded as a good proxy for an individual’s utility. Furthermore, in order to yield reliable non-market valuation estimates, self-reported life satisfaction measures must: (1) contain information on respondents’ global evaluation of their life; (2) reflect not only stable inner states of respondents, but also current affects; (3) refer to respondents’ present life; and (4) be comparable across groups of individuals under different circumstances. Despite these conditions, there is growing evidence to support the suitability of individual’s responses to life satisfaction questions for non-market valuation. Applications of the life satisfaction approach to the valuation of environmental goods and services to date include the valuation of air quality, airport noise, greenspace, scenic amenity, floods, and drought.

¿Salud o dinero?: la tensión dialéctica entre los derechos sobre el medicamento = Health or money?: The dialectic tension over medicine rights

<p>Este estudio se centra en el análisis de la tensión que se produce en el comercio del medicamento entre los derechos de propiedad intelectual de los que son titulares las empresas farmacéuticas y el derecho a la salud del que es titular toda persona. Se reflexionará acerca del tratamiento del medicamento como bien de mercado, y no como bien social, en relación con los precios fijados por los titulares de las patentes farmacéuticas. Las diferentes realidades geográficas que dificultan una correcta aplicación de la normativa, el papel del Estado en la prestación farmacéutica y las importaciones paralelas también ocuparán parte de estas reflexiones; para concluir con la necesidad de incluir unos principios éticos de real y efectivo cumplimiento que inspiren la regulación legal de la materia.</p><p>This paper is mainly focused on the description of the tensions produced over medicine trade, between intellectual property rights of which pharmaceutical companies are holders, and the health right, which every person is holding. It will reflect up on the treatment made over the medicine as a market good instead a social good, regarding to prices established by pharmaceutical patent holders. The different geographical realities which make difficult a correct rule implementation, the role that the State plays in to pharmaceutical provisions, and parallel import sales o will focus a part of this analysis; in order to conclude with the necessity of including ethical principles really operative which inspire a legal regulation in this field.</p>