Journal of Social Welfare and Management

This article describes in simple terms the meaning of research, difficulties faced while selecting a research problem, sources of research problems and factors to be kept in mind while finalizing a research topic. Though the world is full of problems, selecting a problem for academic research is a challenging task. It is the selection of the area and the topic that decide the success of the entire research work. Experience has shown that hurried finalization has cost time, energy and money on the part of research scholars. The author has shared her own personal experiences she had while deciding to work on a research topic. The crucial step in any academic research is deciding on the problem. It is expected that this article will be helpful to those interested in carrying out any academic research done for the sake of getting degrees. 

 

Keywords: Research; Theories; Replication; Problem for research

The modern Indian woman is an object of admiration by people of the rest of the world, for the role she plays in the country’s public life as well as for certain qualities that she seems to posses in greater measure than woman of other cultures. “Women in India have not only but also got equal political and civil rights as men without having to fight for them, they have been increasingly joining the higher ranks of administration and the various other public services and acquainting themselves with credit”.

Women in India have attained greater freedom and equality on par with men in all walks of life proving themselves to be important resources for the development of the society and mankind. They are entering into every sphere of human activity with courage and conviction and also contributing for the enrichment of the society as well as themselves.  Today we find women ambassadors, women cabinet ministers, women engineers, doctors, lawyers and administrators of highest caliber, Aviators, scientists, Astronauts etc., proving their excellence and eminence in whatever activity they under take.

India is at present ranked as the fifth largest poultry producer in the world, following the United States, Brazil, the European Union (EU), and China in the year 2012. India’s poultry meat production grew about 6% annually during the 1980s, accelerated to 11% annually in the 1990s and to nearly 19% during 2007 – 2011. Hence, the present study makes an attempt in analyzing the various factors which enabled the farmers to enter into poultry farming in Tuticorin district of Tamilnadu. The study utilises both primary and secondary data. Percentage analysis, averages, Garret ranking method,  chi square test and probability analysis were used.  The class interval technique was used to analysis the age, income and expenditure. The data relate to the month of April 2015.  It could be seen that  additional income were ranked first, followed by the early returns.  Easy to manage was ranked third and knowledge of rearing ranked fourth.  Failure of agriculture was ranked fifth respectively. It reveals that 45% of the male respondents acquire income between Rs.5000-10000, 25% of the respondents obtain income between Rs.10000-15000 and 30% of the respondents receive income Rs.15000-20000. In the case of female respondents 77.5% obtain income between Rs.5000-10000, 25% of the respondents acquire income between Rs.10000-15000 and 30% of the respondents get income Rs.15000-20000 respectively. As the calculated value of Chi-square is greater than the table value at 5 per cent level of significance, there is a relationship between income of the respondents and sex of the study area. As the calculated value of Chi-square is greater than the table value at 5 per cent level of significance, there is a relationship between savings of the respondents and sex of the study area. Thus, in a nutshell, the poultry farming is a profitable venture and has a bright future in the study area of Tuticorin district agriculture for improving the economic status of the farming community.

Over the past decade India has been catching up with the development in the global Mutual Fund Industry. This study investigates the relative importance of the attribute considered by investor in selecting mutual funds. Balanced Mutual Fund Attribute’s Diversification as a decision parameter was tested with the selected investors/respondents; the ratings offered by them indicate the intensity of the same which are recorded against their Age, Sex, Education, job Income classification. Finding indicates that   all the firms selected for the study register high to very high impact of attributes in their investment. Though, variation exists, it is micro marginal and is negligible, indicating the high impact of the attributes for all the firms selected for the study.  In the mutual fund industry with increasing diversification and competition, the result of the study is expected to contribute to the process of structuring the funds managed by founder and to offer and insight to individual investors in their mutual fund selection.

The study aims to find the cost and returns of banana cultivation and also to find the efficiency of marketing banana in Srivaikuntam and Tiruchendur taluk of Tuticorin district. It is understood that the banana farmers produced 181.61 kgs of banana and earned Rs.7371.53 per acre while their net returns per acre were Rs.4,760.81. The cost analysis reveals that per acre total cost, that is operational cost of cultivation for banana farmers, worked out to Rs.2338.42. Next to human labor, the amount spent on the use of chemical fertilizers occupied the major portion in the total cost of production.  It came behind the cost of farm manure, cost of irrigation, pesticides, seed cost and bullock labor.  Thus, it is inferred from the analysis that the banana farmers were found more efficient, both cost-wise and return wise. It can be observed that the ratio of Marketing Efficiency (ME) was more or less equal in both Srivaikuntam and Tiruchendur taluks. It was worked out to 2.94 in Srivaikuntam and 2.91in Tiruchendur. It indicates that there is no difference regarding the marketing efficiency between two taluks. It is to be noted that much of the variations in the shares of the producer-sellers as well as retailer were explained by the consumer’s price as indicated by the values of R2 which ranged from 0.91 to 0.94 per cents. The F-values shoe that the regression model is statistically significant at one per cent level. The study shows that the important marketing problems were inadequate credit facilities, high commission charges, high marketing cost, lack of transport facilities and lack of storage facilities which were ranked as first, second, third, fourth and fifth respectively.

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