Past Issue

Rabindranath Tagore has been appreciated all over the world as one of the greatest thinkers. His writings are intermingled with positivism and humanism. In this paper Tagore’s contributions in the arena of music and poetry are explored in the light of Psychodynamic Psychology. The heart never becomes indifferent to a rose. Tagore found we are related to the universe in three ways, by necessity, by knowledge and also by a pure emotional and intuitional union with it.

The oyster farming is widespread at the Benin (West Africa) coastal zone and provides sustainable revenues for grass-roots. This study assessed environmental conditions, farming systems, growth, yields and revenues of the cultivated shellfish, Crassostrea gasar. Results indicated that rearing milieu meets ecological conditions for successful oyster cultivation. Production stages were seed collection and stocking, oyster spreading, growth control, harvesting and processing. Mean stocking density of C. gasar recorded in the rearing milieu was 500 oysters per square meter.

In the framework of inclusive economic crisis and economic hold back, providing livelihood security to the people is the major challenging task. In the instigation of the 21st century, 260 million people in the country did not have income to meet their both ends. India is home to 25 per cent of the world’s poor, of which 75 per cent were in the rural areas. Thus, the present paper aims to study the impact of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme on livelihood security of people in rural areas of Andhra Pradesh.

Customer satisfaction is essentially the culmination of a series of customer experiences or, the net result of the good ones minus the bad ones. It occurs when the gap between customers’ expectations and their subsequent experiences has been closed. The FMCG Sector is one of the most important sectors of any Economy. It plays a vital role in the economy as FMCGs are a necessity and are inelastic products which touch every life in one or the other aspect.

The paper examines the impact of broadcast media commercialisation on agriculture and rural development in Nigeria. It highlights the importance of radio and television in the dissemination of agricultural technology and other useful information for rural development to the teeming farm families across the country, in complementing the ineffective extension services. However, the paper observed that inspite of the immense contributions of the broadcast media to agriculture and rural development, the commercial nature of the media industry now posed a serious challenge to this development.

This study investigated the management of school funds by secondary school principals for effective job productivity in Imo State. Three research questions and three null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A 24-item researcher developed questionnaire was administered and retrieved from 591 teachers, 60 principals and 59 bursars selected through proportionate stratified random sampling technique from the three education zones (Owerri, Mbaise and Orlu) to establish how secondary school principals manage funds for effective job productivity in Imo State.

The study investigated the administrative competencies of female principals in secondary schools in Nsukka Education zone of Enugu State. Three research questions and one null hypothesis guided the study. A 15-item questionnaire was constructed to collect the necessary data for the study. Purposive sampling technique was adopted in selecting all the 10 secondary schools headed by female principals. Stratified random sampling technique was used in selecting 20% of the 818 male and 517 female teachers in Nsukka Education zone. This gave a total of 164 males and 103 females.

Seasonal variations in municipal solid waste dumping site aged soil of Tuticorin were studied. Samples were collected at Tharuvaikulam compost yard 12 kms away from Tuticorin. pH, Ec(dSm-1), macronutrients (N,P,K) and micronutrients (Fe, Mn, Zn, Cu) contents were analysed in corporation solid waste dumping site aged soil samples. The present research analysis various nutrients of aged soil due to this we give the suggestion to corporation to recycle the corporation solid waste through vermin technology and save the soil fertility of agri fields.

This study examined the Multivariate analysis of Chemical Components of Tobacco Leaves using Canonical Correlation Analysis which seeks to identify and quantify the association between two sets of variables. The paper focused on using Canonical Correlation Analysis to analyze data on chemical components of 25 tobacco leaf samples. The multivariate data satisfied the normality assumption. The data for this study, which contains three criterion measures and six predictor variables, were analyzed using the “SAS” statistical software package.

Study of  physical properties are necessary to determine the appropriate equipment design for processing transportation, separating, storing and drying systems.  In this experimental study, some  raw material characteristics were determined for the blackgram  to get the idea for proper equipment design . The average length, width and thickness were found  to be 3.53mm, 2.22mm and 2.29mm at 11.11% moisture content  respectively for the dry seeds.