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Field experiment was carried out at AICRP- Water Management block, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Madurai during 2010 - 2011 to study the effect of subsurface drip fertigation on growth, yield, quality and economics of banana cv. Rasthali. Banana requires high levels of nutrients for proper growth and production. It is estimated that a crop of fifty two tones in one hectare removes 320 kg of N, 32 kg of P2O5and 925 kg K2O every year. The frequent supply of nutrients with irrigation water in fertigation treatment significantly increased NPK uptake over drip irrigation.

Over half a million women die each year due to complications during pregnancy and birth. The vast Majority of these deaths are preventable. The overall health status of Tribal Women was not good due to array of causes like lack of medical facilities and outreach medical centres. The present study was undertaken to know about the maternal health status of Bankura district of West Bengal, India. Sample population was selected from 6 tribal dominated Blocks of South Bankura. A total 406 samples (N=406) were selected for the study.

This study was designed to assess the effectiveness of food aid in alleviating hunger in ward 29 of Mutare District through establishing the nature and assessing the benefits of food aid. A questionnaire was distributed to forty six (46) households in order to collect primary data for the study. Five (5) interviews two focus group discussions were done with five (5) headmen from different villages an average of six respondents per group respectively. The research was conducted April and August of 2012-2013 phase.

Job stress is the psychophysiological arousal resulting from workplace demands. Optimally, it results in enhanced job performance. When mismanaged, job stress leads to job strain, which includes psychological, medical, and behavioral costs. The growing awareness of the impact of job stress is best illustrated by the sheer increase in the volume of job stress research in recent years. Job stress is a condition familiar to many.

The Environment is defined as humans and their relationships with the living and non-living things in the world. The Bible tells us that God created all things in the universe and that all was very good. He entrusted the world to humans whom he gave the gift of intellect to know good and evil. Human beings have used their gift of innovation that is in science and technology; to move from being hunters and gatherers to becoming agriculturists and industrialists. They have managed to make their lives better.

This study determined oil recovery potential of Hyptis suaveolens for its beneficial use. Pulverized leaves (500 g) of Hyptis suaveolens was hydro-distilled for 3 hours using Clevenger apparatus set up. The percentage yield of the oil was 0.29 % (v/w). The GC-FID analysis of the extractedoil revealed 36 chemical components (99.99 %) of which 72.54 % is mono-terpenoids, 21.96 % is sesquterpenoids and 5.49 % is non-terpenoid constituents.

The aim of this study is to determine the presence of pathogenic bacteria and fungi in the hospital environment. The samples for the study were obtained from the hospital wards and were taken from the indoor air during, before and after disinfection by means of settle plate method. Nutrient agar, Blood agar, Macconkey agar, and Sabouraud‘s dextrose agar were used for isolation of bacteria and fungi respectively. 35 bacterial species and 19 fungal species were cultured from the hospital wards.

An efficient protocol was described for rapid callus induction and regeneration from internodal explants of Vitex negundo (Verbenaceae) which is a woody, aromatic and medicinal plant. For callus induction and regeneration, Particular plant growth regulators were used, which are auxins such as 2,4-D and NAA in combination with cytokinin BAP. The explants were cultured on Murashige and Skoog (MS, 1962) medium augmented with different concentrations of auxins and cytokinins individually and in mixture of combinations for callus induction.

Batch absorption studies were carried out to evaluate the Pb2+ adsorption capacities of different fired clay soils with different particle size distributions. Adsorption efficiency was observed to increase with an increase in clay content. Adsorption efficiencies of the fired clay soils were also influenced by the firing temperature, the solutions acidity, initial Pb2+ concentrations, shaking time and adsorbent dose.

Social entrepreneurship is a need of time in today’s globalization world. Every nation has been trying to develop itself using all efforts. For the nation development social entrepreneurship is the best tool and medium which is available in society itself. Social entrepreneurs shall start work as per their capacity and creativity. Social entrepreneurship is easy to apply in society because it is directly known and involved among the peoples. Government and administration has to promote the suitable environment to social entrepreneurship.