IOSR-JAVS   Volume-7 ~ Issue-5 ~ MAY-2014

Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	Labour Commitment and Firm's Productivity in Nigeria: A Case Study of Global Soap and Detergent Industries Limited, Ilorin, Kwara State.
Country	:	Nigeria
Authors	:	Adelowo Wahab Bashir
	:	10.9790/2380-07510108

ABSTRACT: This study attempts to find the relationship that exists between labour commitment and firm's productivity. It also examines the impact of employees' sex, marital status and occupational status on commitment to work. One hundred workers were drawn as sample from Global Soap and Detergent Industries Limited, Ilorin, to aid the research. An instrument title "Labour commitment and productivity Questionnaire" (LCPQ) was used for collecting data which was analyzed with statistical tables, simple percentage and chi-square statistics. The findings showed a high positive relationship between labour commitment and productivity. Also, the study revealed a significant difference in the commitment to work of married and single employees, male and female employees as junior and senior company employees.

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Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	Association between Teat condition score and Udder health status in dairy bovines
Country	:	India
Authors	:	Vikas Singh, V. K. Singh, Pranab Doley, Ajit Singh
	:	10.9790/2380-07510911

ABSTRACT: The present research work was undertaken to assess the association between teat condition score (TCS) and udder health status of dairy bovines.Total 50 cows (HF cross) and 50 buffaloes (murrah type) were selected randomly and observed for 120 days at fortnightly intervals. The animals were divided into 3 groups i.e. Normal, Less-severe and Severe on the basis of TCS.The overall SCS in both cows and buffaloes was significantly (P<0.05) highest in Severe group (5.91±0.02 and 6.09±0.35) followed by Less severe (5.15±0.18 and5.85±0.09) and Normal (4.18±0.21 and 5.31±0.112). Teat condition significantly affects the udder health status of dairy bovines.

Keywords: Somatic cell score, Teat condition score, udder health status,

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Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	A Study on Antioxidant Property of Organic and Conventional Tomatoes
Country	:	India
Authors	:	Vaijayanthi Kanabur, Dr R. P. Lalitha Reddy
	:	10.9790/2380-07511217

ABSTRACT: Tomato is one of the commonly consumed vegetables with high antioxidant capacity. The objective of the present study is to compare the antioxidant property of organic and conventional tomatoes. For the experiment, organic samples were procured from Era Organic Foods, (IMO Certified) Bangalore. Same variety of conventional tomato was obtained from same agro climatic zone. The samples were freeze dried using a lyodryer (LT5BC ISI lyphilization system, USA) and stored at 4 C in dark. The tomato extract was prepared in a solvent consisting of methanol (69%), ethanol (20%), HCl (10%) and water (1%). Total antioxidant capacity was estimated using Free Radical scavenging activity using 2, 2 Diphenyl-1-picryl hydrazyl (DPPH),β Carotene bleaching method, Linoleic acid emulsion system-thiocyanate method and Ferric-reducing antioxidant power(FRAP) methods. The results reveal that organic tomatoes have higher antioxidant ability than conventional tomatoes.

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Paper Type	:	Research Paper
Title	:	Challenges of Agriculture in Nigeria Economy: A Bane to Food Security
Country	:	Nigeria
Authors	:	Odoh Patrick Abutu
	:	10.9790/2380-07511821

ABSTRACT: The Nigeria National Flag have two combined colour of Green and White (Green-White-Green). The Green colour symbolizes that Nigeria is a potential agricultural economy. Not only that, the Nigeria Coat of Arm have a symbol –The Black Shield. This symbol equally represents rich agricultural soil. With The combination of these two symbols , one may quickly concluded if he is not a Nigeria and probabaly not living in Nigeria that agriculture is the main stream of the Nigeria economy. However, this assumption is fallacy because Nigeria after over fifty three years (1960-2014) of attaining Political independence is not among the list of the agriculturally recognized countries of the world. Against this backdrop, this paper through secondary source of information enumerated the various challenges faced by agriculture in achieving food security and a source of foreign exchange earnings for Nigeria. The paper chiefly recommends amongst that government should encourage boosting of agriculture through subidizing of organic fertilizers and at the same time embark on granting agricultural crdit facilities to farmers, link rural areas with good road network and fix agricultural marking institutions and encouraging agricultural investment framework.
Keywords:Challenges, Agriculture, Economy, Food & Security

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