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A study on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability in agribusiness in Ethiopia – challenges and developing strategies

The commercialization of agriculture is a top priority for Ethiopia. It is, therefore, encouraging to have seen a rapid development of the commercial agriculture sector in recent years. Entrepreneurs, government, and other stakeholders share the opinion that commercial agriculture can be successful only when it is done on a sustainable footing. It is widely acknowledged that although the entrepreneur has a wide responsibility in this respect, he or she cannot do it alone. Developing sustainable agriculture requires an exchange of knowledge and experience among business, government and civil societal organizations. The code of practice developed by and for the Ethiopian floriculture sector is a good example of such a process. Working on sustainability by entrepreneurs is generally referred to as corporate social responsibility (CSR). In practice, it entails constantly working on improving the three P’s (people, planet, and profit) in a balanced manner. Most entrepreneurs involved in commercial agriculture in Ethiopia are motivated to work on CSR. As a result, a wide variety of good practices have evolved in recent years. This article is an attempt to highlight CSR practices, important issues in agribusiness and Suggestions to promote work on improvement of the three P’s (people, planet, and profit) to the agribusiness community.  

Published by: Dr. Monica Tulsian

Author: Dr. Monica Tulsian

Paper ID: V4I2-1503

Paper Status: published

Published: March 31, 2018

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Heart disease prediction using classification and feature selection techniques

The value of measurement age, blood pressure, weight, smoking habits, exercise, and blood serum cholesterol in predicting death and coronary cardiopathy was studied over an amount of ten years. Sixteen teams comprising 12 763 men aged 40-59 years (at the outset) from 7 countries (Yugoslavia, Finland, Italy, Kingdom of The Netherlands, Greece, USA, and Japan) were studied. the very best risk factors were found to be age, pulse blood pressure, and blood serum cholesterol concentration (related to saturated fatty acids within the diet). Variations in incidence rates couldn't be shown to be associated with characteristics of the cohorts in relative weight, smoking habits or physical activity. To design a perceptive model for heart illnesses acknowledgment using data mining strategies that are fit for enhancing the constancy of heart infections conclusion. Thereafter, we divide this data into Training and Testing Data Sets and employ Naïve Bayes technique to obtain relatively higher prediction accuracy. The primary goal of this research would be given a highly accurate prediction of Heart Disease. As we have done a combination of Genetic and Naïve Bayes Technique, the Investigation would be developed a Hybrid model of both these techniques and called it Hybrid Genetic Naïve Bayes Model for predicting high accuracy in results.  

Published by: Navdeep Singh, Sonika Jindal

Author: Navdeep Singh

Paper ID: V4I2-1527

Paper Status: published

Published: March 31, 2018

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Design and implementation of IoT based smart irrigation system

India is the agriculture-based country. Our ancient people completely depended on the agricultural harvesting. Agriculture is a source of livelihood of majority Indians and has the great impact on the economy of the country. In dry areas or in case of inadequate rainfall, irrigation becomes difficult. So, it needs to be automated for proper yield and handled remotely for farmer safety. Increasing energy costs and decreasing water supplies point out the need for better water management. Irrigation management is a complex decision-making process to determine when and how much water to apply to a growing crop to meet specific management objectives. If the farmer is far From the agricultural land he will not be noticed of current conditions. So, efficient water management plays an important role in the irrigated agricultural cropping systems. A low-cost alternative solution for efficient water management currently in use is drip irrigation systems that consist of an automated irrigation mechanism which turns the pumping motor ON and OFF on detecting the moisture content of the earth using the soil moisture sensor without the intervention of a human. The benefit of employing these techniques is to decrease human interference and it is quite feasible and affordable. This Smart irrigation system project is using an Arduino microcontroller, that is programmed to collect the input signal according to a moisture content of the soil and its output is given to the mobile application that will operate the pump.  

Published by: Rasika Arsade, Monali Daf, Oshin Nagpure, Ritika Charpe, Alok Chauhan

Author: Rasika Arsade

Paper ID: V4I2-1367

Paper Status: published

Published: March 31, 2018

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Stabilization of rammed earth with sawdust ash

Rammed earth is a technique of forming in-situ structural wall elements using rigid formwork. Advantages of rammed earth walls include flexibility in plan form, a scope for adjusting the strength and wall thickness, variety of textural finishes, lower embodied carbon and energy, etc.. The thesis deals with an extensive experimentation on sawdust ash stabilized rammed earth specimens. Two varieties of specimens (cylindrical, cubes) are to be used in the experiments. A natural soil and its reconstituted variants were used in the experimental work. Details of the experimental programme, characteristics of raw materials used in the experimental investigations, methods of preparing different types of specimens and their testing procedures are discussed in detail. The aim is to establish properties of locally available natural soil and comparing it with properties of soil suitable for rammed earth construction and effect of Sawdust ash (SDA) on properties of natural soil used for rammed earth.  

Published by: Sri Vishnu Kailash. K, B. Karthick, C. Savinth Kumar

Author: Sri Vishnu Kailash. K

Paper ID: V4I2-1518

Paper Status: published

Published: March 31, 2018

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Automatic car driving system for handicapped and polio-persons with the scooter handle

Nowadays in our country, the handicapped people are facing a lot of struggles in their life to survive. To overcome that, the person with handicapped is more interested in driving the bike.etc. If the case is based on the bike why can’t they ride the automatic car with the scooter handle has the steering system.

Published by: A J Reuben Thomas Raj, B Silpa

Author: A J Reuben Thomas Raj

Paper ID: V4I2-1525

Paper Status: published

Published: March 31, 2018

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Mathematical treatment of enzyme kinetics using differential method

In this article, we studied the theoretical investigation of basic enzyme reactions of substrate and product concentrations. The enzyme kinetics helps in drug designing, Drug Metabolism and the determination of disassociation constants for antigen-antibody interactions in solutions. The arising physical governing system we solved by using the general ordinary differential method. The obtained results show the substrate, enzyme, substrate-enzyme, and product concentration profiles are presented with help of graphs and tables. From this study, we found that as increasing substrate value improves the rate of reaction. If the rate constant is greater than substrate concentration, the rate of reaction depends on free enzyme content and substrate amount. In a similar way, the substrate concentration is greater than rate constant the rate of reaction depends only on free enzyme content.

Published by: Kodathala Sai Varun, Kandagadla Ashok Kumar, Vunnam Rakesh Chowdary, C. S. K Raju

Author: Kodathala Sai Varun

Paper ID: V4I2-1534

Paper Status: published

Published: March 31, 2018

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