{"title":"An analysis of factors influencing farmers buying behaviour of micro irrigation equipment in Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh","authors":"Mamidi Venkatesh, P Radhika, Ch Srilatha, A Meena","doi":"10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sg.1234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sg.1234","url":null,"abstract":"The two most crucial natural resources for the growth of agriculture are land and water. In India, agriculture is the predominant user of water resources. Low level of water use efficiency in agriculture is another serious challenge for sustainable management of water resources. Micro irrigation which allows application of water to root zone of the crops through emitters, has already been adopted by many countries for transforming their agriculture. To carry out the study with the above objectives, Kadapa district of Andhra was taken up as study area. In Kadapa district almost all of the micro irrigation area is occupied by horticultural crops, in which a little above 60 per cent of area is occupied by fruit crops. The average area under micro irrigation for marginal farmers is around 1.47 acres, whereas for small farmers it is 3.96 acres and for semi medium farmers it is 6.95 acres. Around half of the respondent farmers showed their willingness to increase the area under micro irrigation in their land holding. The major factors influencing the farmers for the installation of micro irrigation system in their fields are; subsidy given by the Government, availability of water, peer influence and improvement of crop yield. The constraints encountered by farmers in the adaptation of drip irrigation technology are poor post installation services, difficulty in availability of spare parts and damages to the micro irrigation system because of inter cultivation operations. The benefits accrued by respondent farmers as a result of installation of micro irrigation system, included efficiency of water usage, reduced labour cost, reduced use of fertilizers, control of weeds and enhanced crop yield and quality.","PeriodicalId":500025,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and applied mathematics","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134994353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arnold Mashud Abukari, Edem Kwedzo Bankas, Alhassan Abukari, Mohammed Muniru Iddrisu
{"title":"A statistical performance analysis of three double-layer homomorphic encryption schemes for cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) data","authors":"Arnold Mashud Abukari, Edem Kwedzo Bankas, Alhassan Abukari, Mohammed Muniru Iddrisu","doi":"10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5a.1195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5a.1195","url":null,"abstract":"This study presented a statistical performance analysis of three double-layer homomorphic encryption schemes for cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) data. In this study, Abukari et al. (2021) proposed a hybrid of two homomorphic encryption scheme and compared with the state-of-the-art Usha (2018) and Bellafqira et al. (2017) double layer homomorphic encryption schemes using the combination of the RSA cryptographic algorithm and the modified Paillier cryptosystem in a hybrid approach. The Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was used to test whether the mean encryption times of the three schemes differ significantly across the data sizes as well as determine which encryption times among the three schemes have the largest difference for each of the data sizes. Preliminary analysis revealed that our new proposed scheme Abukari et al. (2021) has the lowest mean mean encryption times of 5.4150, 10.6570 and 39.9770 across the different data sizes of 7MB, 14MB and 200MB compared to the existing state-of-the-art Bellafqira et al. (2017) and Usha (2018). The MANOVA test revealed that there is a statistically significant difference in encryption times of the various schemes across the different data sizes, F (6, 52) = 8.827, p","PeriodicalId":500025,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and applied mathematics","volume":"307 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135248694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resource use efficiency of super seeder technology: A comparative study in Haryana's wheat farming","authors":"R Bishnoi, Vijay Kumar, Sumit ., MS Meena","doi":"10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sp.1341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sp.1341","url":null,"abstract":"The study explores wheat cultivation resource efficiency in Karnal and Kaithal districts of Haryana during 2021-22. These districts, chosen for their resource conservation techniques, used the Cobb-Douglas function for analysis. Seed and fertilizer costs significantly boost wheat production, while human labour, though influential, lacks statistical significance. Irrigation has a significant negative impact, while machine labour and plant protection, although influential, lack statistical significance. The coefficient of determination (R2) is 59%, showing a moderate relationship. For super seeder technology, machine labour and plant protection positively impact wheat yield, despite the negative effects of seed costs. Output elasticity shows resource underutilization. Human labour significantly reduces yield, while fertilizer costs and irrigation, though non-significant, boost it. In this context, R2 rises to 73%, indicating a stronger relationship. This research sheds light on wheat resource utilization and super seeder technology's potential for regional optimization.","PeriodicalId":500025,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and applied mathematics","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135737011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K Sarika Reddy, Challa Srilatha, Pagadala Radhika, A Meena
{"title":"A study on human resource practices of organised and semi organised players in poultry industry","authors":"K Sarika Reddy, Challa Srilatha, Pagadala Radhika, A Meena","doi":"10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sn.1321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sn.1321","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":500025,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and applied mathematics","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135737371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Naffees Gowsar SR, Arunava Ghosh, Manoj Kanti Debnath, Sankalpa Ojha, Parthendu Poddar, Nishtha Pradarshika Rai
{"title":"Probability of occurrence of drought in relation to rainfed rice productivity in the old alluvial region of West Bengal","authors":"Naffees Gowsar SR, Arunava Ghosh, Manoj Kanti Debnath, Sankalpa Ojha, Parthendu Poddar, Nishtha Pradarshika Rai","doi":"10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sh.1252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sh.1252","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change makes conditions suitable or unsuitable for growing crops in different regions. The greatest threat posed by climate change is change in monsoon. A period of drought is defined by low average precipitation, poor rain or higher evaporation rates which reduces crop growth and yield. In this study, an attempt was made to characterize agricultural drought with the help of rainfed rice crop yield rate and rainfall. Rainfall data and rainfed rice or Aman rice yield rate data from 1978 to 2020 of Malda district in West Bengal were analyzed for determining the probability of rainfed rice specific drought in Malda. An amount of 36.3 mm rainfall for three consecutive weeks was identified as drought threshold value in the test location. The recurrence of drought for the study area has also been studied.","PeriodicalId":500025,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and applied mathematics","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135686521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trends in total factor productivity of sugarcane in Maharashtra: A state level evidence using DEA and SFA approach","authors":"Swapnil Gupta, Prakash Singh Badal","doi":"10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sl.1289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sl.1289","url":null,"abstract":"This paper applied the both parametric and non-parametric approaches of productivity estimation for sugarcane in Maharashtra for the period of 1980-81 to 2020-21. The result from both the approaches signifies the importance in shift due to technological adoption as a vital source of productivity growth. The estimation of DEA and SFA produced similar results at spatial and temporal directions thus validating the TFP estimation. The analysis for growth rate, instability and decomposition analysis has been carried out for five sub-periods as per the reforms in the sugarcane industry and overall period (1950-51 to 2020-21). The state is witnessing a positive growth rate in area, production and productivity after the Mature Economic Reforms after 1990’s. However the state is suffering from serious instability issues in the sub-periods IV and V due to the scarcity of water and decline in groundwater table of the state. The positive TFP growth has been associated with associated with 0.3 per cent and a declining mean technical efficiency by -0.1 per cent per year. The TFP revived by 1.09 percent after the reforms in the sugar industry. The estimated regression results for TFP determinants revealed pressure on irrigation facilities due to prolonged drought condition of state. Since sugarcane is the leading cash crop of the state and large revenue is being generated by the crop sugar mills, balanced nutrients, and rural literacy all of these have a positive and significant contribution in increasing the agricultural productivity of the state. The results have revealed the yield stagnation is not only due to technology fatigue, but could be due to slacked input intensification. An obvious extension of the study could be incorporating more crops and states for an exhaustive and comparative analysis.","PeriodicalId":500025,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and applied mathematics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Baby Akula, Dr. K Indudhar Reddy, Divya N, Parmar RS
{"title":"Advances in soil fertility classification: Data mining approach","authors":"Baby Akula, Dr. K Indudhar Reddy, Divya N, Parmar RS","doi":"10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sg.1240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sg.1240","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture is as old as civilization. Indian agriculture heritage witnessed nomadic shifting cultivation to present precision agriculture feeding its ever-burgeoning population. Indeed a magical feat that no other country in the world can partake in India in terms of its agriculture production. Soil fertility, an important dimension of soil productivity braced up India from starvation to self-sufficiency. This paper focuses on soil fertility classification of soil dataset of Ranga Reddy district of Telangana using data mining techniques viz., Tree based – Random Forest, Random Tree and; Lazy based -IBK and K Star; and Bayesian-based Naïve Bayes. The soil fertility dataset extended to 2,408 instances comprising 12 attributes of soil parameters which included soil physicochemical properties, and macro, secondary and micronutrients of soil collected from selected model villages of the Ranga Reddy district. Soil the performance of each model was examined in terms of correctly classified instances, incorrectly classified instances, Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Area, Kappa statistic., mean absolute error, Root mean squared error, Relative absolute error and Root relative squared error. The classification algorithm, the Random Forest model had achieved the highest prediction accuracy of 93.69%, sensitivity of 0.937 and precision of 0.902 and F1 score of as compared with the rest of the models.","PeriodicalId":500025,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and applied mathematics","volume":"374 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135587812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of farmers perception on marketing strategies of major micro irrigation companies in Annamayya district of Andhra Pradesh","authors":"Mukkara Rahul, Challa Srilatha, Pagadala Radhika, Kallakuri Supriya","doi":"10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sg.1233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sg.1233","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of water to plant growth is multifaceted. The technique of applying large volumes of water to plants, crops, or landscapes is called Irrigation. Applying irrigation through drippers, sprinklers and foggers at high pressure is called Micro irrigation. Although farmers are rapidly becoming advocates of micro irrigation techniques, market penetration remains very low. Hence effective marketing strategies for micro irrigation are essential. The study was taken to analyse the perception of farmers on marketing strategies of major micro irrigation techniques. A multi stage stratified purposive cum convenience sampling method was employed to select the sample. Total sample size was 80 farmers. Likert scale was used to record the opinion of the farmers. Mean technique was used to analyse the recorded data. Garrett ranking was employed to rank the benefits accrued from micro irrigation system.","PeriodicalId":500025,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and applied mathematics","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135588677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pramod Kumar Prajapati, Shiv Ratan, Devendra K Payasi, Yogendra Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Kundan Muwel
{"title":"Status of genetic variability and characters association performance with promising donors in linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) genotypes","authors":"Pramod Kumar Prajapati, Shiv Ratan, Devendra K Payasi, Yogendra Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Kundan Muwel","doi":"10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sg.1232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5sg.1232","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":500025,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and applied mathematics","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134994342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tarun Gandhi, V Saravanakumar, M Chandrakumar, K Divya, S Senthilnathan
{"title":"Forecasting pearl millet production and prices in Rajasthan, India: An ARIMA approach","authors":"Tarun Gandhi, V Saravanakumar, M Chandrakumar, K Divya, S Senthilnathan","doi":"10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5se.1209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22271/maths.2023.v8.i5se.1209","url":null,"abstract":"Pearl millet holds significant agricultural importance in India, particularly within arid and semi-arid regions of Rajasthan. In India, Rajasthan state leads global Pearl millet production with 5.15 Mt in 2022-23 and cultivated across 4.51 Mha. Although, Rajasthan tops in both production and cultivated area in India, the price and non-price factors lead to the fluctuation in prices and production of pearl millet. Pearl millet prices have fluctuated over many years and also experienced climate change during the season and after the production of pearl millet. Forecasting prices and production will help the farmers to make decisions on marketing, and acreage allocation and to sustain the production of pearl millet. Therefore, the present study aims to forecast pearl millet prices and production in Rajasthan. We used time series data comprising average monthly prices of pearl millet to forecast up to December 2024 and annual production data to forecast up to the year 2029-30. The ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) and SARIMA (Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) models were employed to forecast pearl millet production and prices. The best-fitted model was ARIMA (0, 1, 2) with drift for pearl millet production and ARIMA (1, 1, 1) (1, 0, 1) for pearl millet prices. The findings suggest a projected increase in pearl millet prices and production also shows an increasing trend in Rajasthan.","PeriodicalId":500025,"journal":{"name":"International journal of statistics and applied mathematics","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135347032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}