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    A STUDY ON PERCEIVED PROBLEMS AND ATTITUDE OF PADDY FARMERS TOWARDS INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: A CASE STUDY OF BARGARH DISTRICT OF ODISHA
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2021-12) REDDY, SUDHEERKUMAR; CHAUDHARY, RASHMI
    ABSTRACT Farmers depends heavily on chemical pesticides to increase productivity, results in pesticide residues in vegetables, fruits and grains, increased resurgence in pests. Integrated pest management became most important criteria in pest management since 1985 which provides better results than chemical dependence. Present study is done by three main objectives, firstly to study socio-economic characters of respondents, secondly to study their relation with attitude of respondents towards IPM and lastly to study the perceived problems of farmers towards IPM practices. Study was carried out using multi stage sampling with structured questionnaire. Study shows that Attitude of 96 percent IPM farmers was favorable and 4 percent of IPM farmers are moderately favorable. 10 percent of Non IPM farmers are unfavorable and 90 percent are moderately favorable. IPM farmers are concerned about environment, yield and resource management but Non IPM farmers are more concerned about yield as per the statements used to analyze the attitude towards IPM. The study shows that majority of IPM farmers perceive that IPM practices require more labour and time but remaining problems seems to be less affected for them. All Non IPM farmers perceived that IPM practices require more labor and time.
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    FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF HIMACHAL PRADESH TOURISM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2019-07) NEHA; KATHURIA, KAPIL
    ABSTRACT HPTDC has played a vital role in the development of tourism in state. However, HPTDC was not able to continue the initial momentum and hence had run into losses. The present study is an attempt to analyze its financial performance. Secondary data was collected from annual reports of HPTDC. Itprovides insights into widely used financial tool ratio analysis. The objective of the note is to help the reader understand how these ratios should be used to analyze the financial position of a firm. The findings of the study reveal that current ratio & quick ratio are below standard form that is current ratio 0.949 & 0.931 is quick ratio which is below 2:1 and 1:1. The net profit of HPTDC was 1.919 in 2016 which is fluctuating every year. The poor financial performance and improper utilization of resources by Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation which is running into losses for past many years. It is suggested to control the cost of goods sold and operating expenses. HPTDC should try to match the amount of working with the sales trends. To strengthen the financial efficiency, long-term funds have to be used to finance core current assets and a part of temporary current assets.