A random sample of hundred and two female agril labourers were selected from 7 identified agril farms out of 15 farms of Marathwada Agriculture University, Parbhani in Maharashtra. The information was collected by personally interviewing these women and their children based on the structured cum open ended interview schedule. Majority of them belong to nuclear...

The research problem was titled “Marketing management behaviour of self help group leaders of DWCRA programme in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh”. A sample of 45 self help group leaders from 3 mandals of East Godavari district was selected through random sampling method. The required data was collected through personally interviewing the women self he...

A study on "Maternal Employment and Nutritional Status of Preschool Children" was carried out among 120 children in the age group of 4 to 5 years. They were selected on the basis of maternal employment equally and randomly from the three groups i.e., casual labourers (CL), employed mothers (EM) and unemployed mothers (HW). The results of the study indicat...

The present investigation was carried out to study the morphological, biochemical and molecular characterization of summer mungbean (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek.) rhizobial diversity. Twenty three rhizobial isolates from soil and nodule samples of summer mungbean rhizosphere from different parts of Punjab were characterized on the basis of morphological and biochemica...

A study on “ a multi variate approach to define the quality of rice” was carried out assets the major quality parameters such as physical characteristics, cooking characteristics, organoleptic qualities and nutritional composition. Sixty rice varieties (thirty hybrid derivatives, twenty eight traditional / local varieties and two other improved / market varieties )...

Present investigation was carried out to study work environment, postures adopted, musculoskeletal disorders and physiological stresses faced by women engaged in papad rolling activity and to design and evaluate suitable ergonomic tools/interventions for humanizing their work environment. Study was conducted in two phases: field su...