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- Quantification and Utilization of Agricultural Wastes in Farm Based Rural Households of Jorhat District of Assam
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1 Department of Family Resource Management and Consumer Studies, College of Community Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
1 Department of Family Resource Management and Consumer Studies, College of Community Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
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Asian Journal of Home Science, Vol 13, No 1 (2018), Pagination: 400-404Abstract
A well structured interview schedule was administered on hundred rural households of eleven villages of Jorhat district of Assam during 2016-17 to conduct a survey specially on accumulation and utilization of agricultural wastes in rural households. Result indicated that majority of the farmers (30%) were of middle age group (30-40 years), mostly having a nuclear family (73%) with 1-5 members with an educational qualification upto 10th standard. Majority of the respondents are marginal farmer with a land holding upto 10 acres and earn their livelihood primarily from farming. Most of the households cultivated paddy as monocrop. However, Rabi and Kharif vegetables were also grown by many households depending upon the land situation. Data reveals that 10,396 qt rice straw, 18,193 qt of rice husk, 2004.64 kg of water hyacinth and 12000 number of areca sheath are produced as agricultural wastes among the 100 households. The study also reveals that there is a huge gap between the availability of agricultural wastes and awareness for economic utilizing these wastes.Keywords
Agricultural Wastes, Water Hyacinth, Rice Straw, Rice Husk.
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- Online Shopping Behaviour of the Consumers in Jorhat Town of Assam
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1 Department of Family Resource Management and Consumer Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
1 Department of Family Resource Management and Consumer Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
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Asian Journal of Home Science, Vol 13, No 2 (2018), Pagination: 538-544Abstract
Online shopping is purchasing items from internet retailers. Recently it has witnessed a tremendous growth resulting in greater use of this tool by the traders. Also the competition in e-commerce is intensified. Therefore, it becomes more important for online retailers to understand the online shopping behaviour of the consumers. Consumer behaviour has been always of great interest to marketers. The knowledge of consumer behaviour helps the marketer to understand how consumers think, feel and select from alternatives like products, brands and the like and how the consumers are influenced by their environment, the reference groups, family, and salespersons and so on. For the present research work 120 samples were selected randomly from four wards of municipality area of Jorhat Assam and a multistage stratified random sampling method was adopted in order to select representative sample. Findings revealed that majority of the consumers have average shopping behaviour. Age of the respondent is negatively correlated whereas education and income has strong positive correlation with online shopping behaviour.Keywords
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