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What's keeping the apples way? addressing the market integration issue
(2010-04-03)
Apples have been grown in India for a century. At present apple production exceeds 1.4 million tonnes a year. Still, there are wide variations in the apple prices across the country. We test the price data for market ...
System dynamic study of apple movement from orchards to wholesale market
(2010-07-27)
Two northern states, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and Himachal Pradesh (HP) account for most of the apple grown in India. Fruit is graded and packed near orchards and sent to Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC), Delhi ...
Modelling a vegetable and fruit market to aid modernisation
(2010-07-27)
We present in this paper, an operational study of CJ Patel Wholesale Fruit and Vegetable Market of Ahmedabad city using simulation. This market was built in the year 1996 in order to reduce congestion in another older ...
Fourier representation of ambient temperature and duration of sunshine
(2010-03-27)
While constructing a transient thermal model of solar cooker, a need was felt for analytic expressions for ambient temperature and sunshine duration. This paper, therefore, presents the Fourier analysis of ambient temperature ...
Fourier representation of ambient temperature and solar radiation for eighteen stations in India
(2010-04-05)
Analytic expressing for solar radiation and ambient temperature are needed by those working on green house design, solar appliances and crop wale relationship. This paper contains such expressions for 18 stations in India.
Fertilizer plant modelling: a simulation study
(2010-04-05)
A Simulation model of a fertilizer plant has been made. It includes activities from production to despatch, from the plant site. Input to the model is daily demand which comes to the plant as despatch instructions. The ...
Strategic response of Indian state owned enterprises to environmental shifts
(2010)
Researches on strategic response of firms to environmental shifts have been conducted, mostly with respect to the private corporations and, predominantly in the North American and European Context. This apparent inclination ...
Water wisdom and wars farming matters
(2010-09-07)
Alongside the large-scale floods that fill the news these days, millions of hectares and people around the world are being affected by drought, with large areas suffering from serve brought and fires the current tenor of ...
Mainstreaming an unorganized industry: The case of Suguna poultry
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2010)
The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) framework is quite rich with its concepts like sustainability, mainstreaming, stakeholders and their inclusiveness, citizenship, etc. The debate in CSR is increasingly about making ...
IIMA to begin placements next week
(03/02/2010)