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ThesisItem Restricted A STUDY OF MARKETING PRACTICES OF INLAND FISH FARMERS OF PUNJAB(Punjab Agricultural University, 2011) Chopra, Deep; Babita KumarThe study was conducted to analyse the marketing practices and problems faced by inland fish farmers in Punjab. A list of all the fish farmers in Punjab was obtained from Fish Farmers’ Development Authority. The list showed that the farmers were having highest concentration of fish farmers in five districts of Punjab i.e. Bathinda, Sangrur, Patiala, Ludhiana, Ferozepur. For meeting the objectives primary data were collected through a structured, non-disguised questionnaire from a sample was of 100 farmers i.e. 20 farmers from each district which were chosen on convenience basis. The study found that mostly semi-medium and medium farmers are engaged in this activity. Majority of farmers have adopted poultry as a subsidiary occupation along with fish farming. Majority of the farmers had received training in fish farming from state fisheries department. The study revealed that catla, rohu and mrigal are highly reared varieties and the major source of fish fingerlings for farmers is private companies followed by state department of fisheries. Fish farmers were facing problem of inadequate technical help for fish production, losses during handling, improper packaging material and shortage of electricity.ThesisItem Restricted Study of Awareness and Attitude towards Incentive Schemes for Exporters of Agricultural Products’’(Punjab Agricultural University, 2013) Garg, Nishant; Babita KumarThe present study was conducted on awareness and attitude towards incentive schemes for exporters of agricultural products. The study was undertaken in five districts of Punjab namely Amritsar, Chandigarh, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Sangrur. The sample of 50 exporters was interviewed with the help of detailed questionnaire. The results of the study show that there are only 27(54%) exporters which were aware of incentive schemes. From them only 17(63%) were availing the schemes. The reasons for not availing the schemes had been the approval formalities of government agencies, documentations and non-willingness of exporters to avail the schemes Those who were availing the schemes were having objectives of increasing their competiveness, profit maximization, financial assistance and brand publicity and advertisement. However, the exporters find many problems in availing the schemes like procedural problems, official regulations and policies and inefficiencies of incentive providing agencies. These problems can be solved by formulating approachable incentive policies so that the exporters can easily avail them and it should be user friendly.ThesisItem Restricted A STUDY OF MARKETING PRACTICES OF GRAPE GROWERS IN PUNJAB(Punjab Agricultural University, 2011) SUBHASH KUMAR; Ramandeep SinghThe research project entitled “A Study of marketing practices of Grape growers in Punjab” was undertaken with the objectives of analyzing the marketing practices of the selected grape growers in Punjab and identifying the problems related to marketing of the grapes in Punjab. A sample of 32 grape growers in Punjab were selected from the list of grape growers of Bhatinda district in Punjab obtained from the Department of Horticulture, P.A.U. Ludhiana. It was found out that grapes is also transported to other state and marketing there. So that grape growers encountered many problems related to marketing practices. Study revealed that majority of grape growers have lack of awareness and proper assistance related to processing of the Grapes and they were not showing any interest in these activities. They also not indulged in any type of promotional activities. And encountered many problem related to improper subsidy, seasonal demand of grapes, losses during handling, related to perishabilty of grapes and major problem in marketing of grapes.ThesisItem Restricted A study of corporate governance practices in selected Banks(Punjab Agricultural University, 2011) Shifali Loi; Babita KumarThe research project “A study of corporate governance practices in selected Banks” was undertaken to understand the corporate governance practices in selected public, private and foreign banks. To achieve the objectives of the study, annual reports of all the banks under study were taken from their respective websites. The data was analyzed and compared on the basis of certain parameters of corporate governance like board of directors, remuneration of directors, audit committee of the board, secretarial audit, shareholder/investor grievance handling machinery, and whistle blowing policy. It was found that the foreign sector banks were most efficient in adopting corporate governance practices. Also, private sector banks were more into adopting corporate governance practices than public sector banks. It was found that the number of board of directors is more in foreign Banks as compared to public and private sector Banks. But the numbers of meetings of the board held were more of public and private sector Banks than foreign sector Banks. Foreign sector Banks paid higher remuneration to the independent directors for attending the board meetings than public and private sector Banks. Also, private sector Banks paid higher remuneration to the independent directors than public sector BanksThesisItem Restricted A STUDY OF PERFORMANCE OF MOVING AVERAGE, BOLLINGER BANDS AND RELATIVE STRENGTH INDEX IN SELECTED STOCKS AND STOCK INDICES(Punjab Agricultural University, 2011) Babbar, Richa; Sachdeva, Y.P.The present study “A Study of Performance of Moving Average, Bollinger Bands and Relative Strength Index (RSI) in Selected Stocks and Stock Indices” was undertaken to assess the performance of Moving Average, Bollinger Bands and RSI in selected stocks and stock indices. Objectives of the study were to study the performance of these techniques in selected stocks and indices. For the purpose of study two Indices BSE SENSEX and S&P CNX 500 were chosen and 15 stocks were chosen from S&P CNX NIFTY. It was found out that average returns from 200 Day Moving Average were higher in stocks and both the indices. Average return of all the stocks covered under study came out to be about 22 percent in case of 200 Day Moving Average. This average was higher as compared to other techniques. RSI technique provided consistent returns. Average return from RSI was highest in 8 out of 15 stocks. Average return from RSI was 10.03 percent in case of all stocks. Average return from Bollinger Bands was 4.61 percent in case of all stocks. Significant difference was found in returns from RSI and Bollinger Bands and also Bollinger bands and Buy and Hold in case of stocks. No significant difference was found in average return from the selected techniques in case of indices.ThesisItem Restricted Study of volatility and price interrelationship among selected edible oils in India(Punjab Agricultural University, 2011) Upma; Sandeep KapurThe present study “Study Of Volatility And Price Interrelationship Among Selected Edible Oils In India” was undertaken to understand price fluctuations in edible oils and also to understand price interdependence. The secondary data of daily prices of Crude Palm oil, Mentha oil and Refined soya oil was obtained from Multi Commodity Exchange. It was found that on monthly basis, minimum coefficient of variation was 0.74 % (April 2010), 0.65 % (Sept 2009), 0.56 % (March 2006) for Crude palm oil, Mentha oil and Refined soya oil respectively. Maximum coefficient of variation on monthly basis was found to be 7.07 % (April 2009), 20.23 % (Feb 2009), 5.84 % (March 2008) for Crude palm oil, Mentha oil and Refined soya oil respectively. Annual coefficient of variation was highest of 27 % in 2008, 26.02 % in 2010 and 5.34 % in 2007 for Crude palm oil, Mentha oil and Refined soya oil respectively. Maximum variation in prices of Mentha oil as well as Refined soya oil was explained by variation in Crude Palm oil prices ie R-square 0.770 and 0.685 respectively. Maximum variation in prices of Crude palm oil was explained by variation in Mentha oil prices ie R-square 0.770. Crude palm oil prices directly affect prices of mentha oil as well as refined soya oil, whereas crude palm oil prices are directly affected by refined soya oil prices.