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IJSS - Volume 12 - Issue 3and4

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Title: Fashion, Modeling, and Beauty in Haiti: A Space of Self-Subjectivation for Young People
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This study seeks to explore the identity formation of models in Haiti. The goal is to demonstrate how Haitian models shape their
identity through fashion practices and how fashion can contribute to reinforcing their self-image. The study draws on theoretical
approaches around identity and the body and applies constructivism and symbolic interaction to understand the identity
construction process of the models. A qualitative methodology was used to collect and analyze the data. The research concludes
that some young people in Haiti use fashion to construct and subjectivize themselves. The study categorizes the construction of the
models’ identity into three groups: those who want to maintain the traditional essence of modeling work, those who believe the
model must manifest creativity, and those who advocate for a more relaxed fashion with less stringent body requirements.
Title: A Study on Export Scenario of Vegetables from India: An Economic Analysis
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India is the second largest producer of vegetables, next to China. India’s share is 11.95 per cent of total global production with
204.61 million tonnes from area of 11.28 million hectares. The share of vegetables export in India’s agriculture and related products
is 3.30 per cent and share in export of horticultural products is 16.21 per cent respectively during 2021-22. The present study
was carried out with a view to analyze the export scenario of vegetables in India. The data were collected and analyzed for a
period of twenty years (2001-02 to 2020-21). The compound annual growth rate in export of vegetables was worked out by fitting
the exponential function. During the overall period of twenty years, both exported quantity and value of vegetables from India
registered a positive trend and the compound annual growth rate was 6.66 and 14.40 per cent for exported quantity and value
respectively. Under different component of vegetables highest compound annual growth rate in exported quantity was registered
in other fresh vegetables category (10.83 per cent per annum) and in exported value it was vegetable seeds (18.85 per cent per
annum). The largest quantity is exported in the form of onions (56.86 per cent) followed by other fresh vegetables (25.14 per cent),
processed vegetables (10.47 per cent), cucumber and gherkins (7.24 per cent) and vegetable seeds (0.28 per cent). The share of
vegetable exports in total vegetable production was ranging from 1.25 to 2.14 per cent during last one decade. In terms of value
Bangladesh was the major importing country for Indian onions, UAE for other fresh vegetables, USA for cucumber & gherkins
and processed vegetables and Netherlands for vegetable seeds. Awareness to farmers regarding export specifications and quality
vegetable production, increase in infrastructural facilities related to export of vegetables, improved post-harvest technologies,
promotion of need based processed products for export, identification of potential and new emerging markets, strict quality control
and proper policies related to export of vegetables may contribute to increased foreign trade of India.
Title: Constraints to Implementation of Market Information System (MIS) on Minor Forest Produce (MFP) in High Altitude and Tribal (HAT) Zone of Andhra Pradesh
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Marketing information is one of the noteworthy inputs for any organization and individual, where it helps in the decisionmaking
of future marketing events, and its needed set of activities known as MIS. The present study focused on constraints in
the implementation of MIS in the HAT zone, the severities of the constraints were quantified with the aid of the Garrett ranking
technique. The major findings of the study revealed that mobile network issues with a Garret score of 68.19, delays in updating
market information with 64.89, frequent fluctuations in prices with 55.24, and market information not timely 46.96 respectively are
the major problems in the implementation of MIS in HAT zone. The least prioritized problems of the study are low literacy with
a Garret score of 43.56, mitigated training programs on the grading of MFP with 35.29, and higher transportation cost with 21.73
respectively.