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IJSS - Volume 6 - Issue 4

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Title: Profile Study under Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Young Farmers of Navsari District
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This study reports the profile of the young farmers under the broad objective of Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Young Farmers. This study was conducted at Navsari, Gujarat (1014-2015) with 60 young farmer entrepreneurs belonging to age group of 15 to 35 years who were sampled following simple random sampling. The profile was studies using a structured schedule. The results indicated here are the major findings, majority of the young farmers belonged to age group of 29-35 years, had secondary level of education, medium level of farming experience, big land holding, higher annual income, medium material possession, low level of extension contact, medium extension participation, high social participation and medium mass media exposure.

Title: A Thematic Review of Social Audit in India
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The crisis situation everywhere in the welfare sector in the country demands something new ways to combat. Social Audit may be one of the probable solutions. Whereas the private institutions doing Social Audit for their own reputation in the society, the government intends to stop the leakages in welfare services with gradual empowerment of the service providers and service users in the country. Irrespective of the nature - public or private, the essence of Social Audit lies in the interest and honesty of the organisations. In government sector, this requires a massive consciousness among public, besides top to bottom bureaucratic and political will with improved methodology with ethical values to achieve the desired goal.

Title: A Critically Review of Pakistan Education system compare with Iran Education system
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This paper compares the education system of the Islamic Republics of Iran and Pakistan by critically reviewing secondary sources of data related to both the countries. It examines and compares the history, laws on education, school levels and structure of the education sector, universal primary education, quality of education, language and the education of women of Pakistan and Iran. This comparison reveals how Iran has achieved rapid growth in its education sector especially after the Revolution while Pakistan lags far behind Iran in all realms of education. Hence, this paper also serves to highlight the current situation of the educational system of Pakistan and the flaws that it suffers from.

Title: Identification of Morphometric Relief Aspects case study of Kottur Block at Tiruvarur Districts, Tamil Nadu, India
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Morphometric analysis is part of geomorphological studies. It can provide vital clues concerning the landscape evolution. The present paper examines the implications different morphometric parameters. This parameters using find out the relationship proves its significance of relief development in this study area. The study area is extends between 10°94 ′N, 79° 55′ E to / 11°7’N, 79.62°E / 11.03; 77.13. It has an average elevation of below 5 meters. The study area locates in Thiruturaipoonditaluk, Thiruvarur district at Tamil Nadu, India. The study area has a plain terrain of alluvial soil, consisting of sand, silt and clay. The study Area located between Delta of Cauvery River and near to coast of Bay of Bengal. These study analysis of various drainage parameters namely ordering of the various streams and measurement of area of basin, perimeter of basin, length of drainage channels, drainage density (Dd), drainage frequency, bifurcation ratio (Rb), drainage texture (T), Roughness index and ruggedness was determined. The total parameter analysis of this study area, overlays each and every parameter.

Title: Factors Determining the Adoption of Polyhouse Farming in Thrissur District
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Controlled environment in agriculture has gained importance not only in vegetable and ornamental crop production but also in the production of plant seedlings, not only from seeds but from tissue culture procedures also. Though this technology has been accepted by farmers in Thrissur district, still the adoption rate is not impressive. Identifying the factors that encourage the farmers for adopting and declining poly-house farming has significance, because it leads to the grass root level constraints faced by them. In this circumstances, the present study identified the factors determined the adoption of poly-house farming and the constraints faced by poly-house farmers from a sample of 60 farmers through convenience sampling technique. The important factor that determined the adoption of poly-house farming was farmers’ awareness about the poly-house farming practices, expected economic benefit and their willingness to take risk. The main problem of poor adoption was the fear of initial decline in yield. There is a need for awareness campaigns for attracting youth to poly-house farming. Finally the study reflected that the farmers were moderately favourable to the poly-house farming.