District Of Telangana Research Articles

Species Composition and Diversity of Stored Grain Pests in Fortified Rice Collected from Different Districts of Telangana State, India

A study was conducted to measure the species composition and diversity of various stored grain insect pests in fortified rice collected from different districts of Telangana,India during 2023-2024. Theresults indicated that a total of six species of stored grain insects belonging to three orders viz., Coleoptera (3), Lepidoptera (2) and Psocoptera (1) were recorded in fortified rice. The six insect species were rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae, Saw toothed beetle, Oryzaephilus surinamensis, redflour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, Angoumois grain moth, Sitotroga cerealella, rice moth, Corcyra cephalonica and pscocids. Among all these insects highest population of O. surinamensis was recorded in four districts of Telangana except in Ranga reddy and Nalgonda. The diversity indices indicated that Shannon-weiner diversity index (H) was high in Warangal district samples(H=1.426) while the Jagtial population recorded highest Margalef’s species richness index (R=1.27). The highest Pielou’s evenness index was reported from Nalgonda district (e=75), and Simpson diversity index of stored grain pests was found to be maximum (0.718) in Warangal district rice samples. The knowledge on species composition and diversity helps in planning timely management strategies for stored grain pests.

Developing a Dynamic Conceptual Model of a Home-Based Palliative Care Plan Using the Comprehensive Primary Health Care (PHC) Approach

Background: Palliative Care (PC) was a core component of Primary Health Care services during the World Health Assembly Resolution, 2014. The study aims to develop a Comprehensive Palliative Care Model (CPCM) for patients with life-threatening conditions compliant with the local context and unmet needs. Materials and Methods: A mixed-methods approach will be adopted for the three-phased study in two districts of Telangana. Phase I, a literature review, will be performed to explore globally available PC models, followed by an on-ground observational study. Phase II will address the gaps in existing models while identifying the unmet needs of the patients and caregivers. The outcome of the above phases will help develop a CPCM in Phase III. The developed model will be validated using the Delphi technique. Results: The expected outcomes of the study are a) Phase-I: Details of the PC models available globally and locally, b) Phase-II: Availability of essential resources in the Health and Wellness Centers (HWCs), Knowledge and Attitude of the PC team, Barriers to provide PC, Unmet needs, and c) Phase-III: CPCM model Conclusion: The study attempts to provide a holistic PC model, considering the health system, patients, and caregivers and offering policy suggestions to the state.

Contribution of oil palm towards self sufficiency in vegetable oil production in Telangana: An analysis

Oil palm as a crop is new to several districts of Telangana but the state ranks 6th in area, 2ndin production of oil palm in the country, while it ranks 1st in Oil Extraction Rate (19.22%) which is a model for fixing FFB price. Twenty six districts were identified suitable for the crop. After the introduction of oil palm in the state barely 10 years ago, the area has reached to 37,485 ha by the end of Vanakalam (Kharif) 2022. More area is coming up in Yesangi (Rabi) 2022, thus the area under oil palm should hopefully cross 80,000 ha by the end of 2022-23 season raising Telangana State to 2nd position in India (Department of Horticulture, 2021).With respect to edible oils, groundnut, sesame, soybean, sunflower and safflower are the edible oilseed crops cultivated in Telangana (Department of Food and Public Distribution, GOI, 2021), The annual per capita consumption of edible oil in Telangana was 14.64 L in the year 2016 (Food Consumption Pattern in Telangana State– 2017), the annual requirement of edible oils is 0.51million MT (calculated based on a population of 35 million).

Formative research on parenting practices and community support for early childhood development among caregivers in Telangana

Background: Early Childhood Development refers to the overall development of children from conception until 5 years of age across various domains such as physical, emotional, social and cognitive development. Empowering caregivers by providing information regarding ECD and early stimulation, play and communication activities from birth will help ensure all-round child development and reduce risk of developmental delays. Methods: A cross-sectional mixed methods study was conducted in May-July 2022 in two districts of Telangana, India. A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to assess KAP among 218 primary caregivers of children aged 0 to 5 years. Two focused group discussions among secondary caregivers and 18 In-Depth Interviews among frontline workers (AWWs and ASHAs) were conducted to study about current ECD practices, sources of information and communication channels. Results: More than 80% parents had good knowledge regarding brain development, but 15 to 25% did not know that activities like talking or playing with their child could improve intelligence. Less than 50% parents associated routine activities like telling stories, being sensitive to the child, playing and protecting the child with their child’s cognitive or emotional development. Even though fathers engaged their children in play and learning activities, most felt the mother was the primary caregiver. Most participants received information regarding Health and Nutrition from Anganwadi workers, but topics like sanitation, child rearing and early stimulation were not regularly covered. Conclusions: Empowering caregivers on early learning and stimulation activities by frontline workers is crucial for ensuring overall growth and development of children into productive adults.

A Survey Study to Assess the Prevalence of Storage Insect Pest on the Seed Health Status of Farmers in Telangana, India

Introduction: Telangana is considered as seed bowl of India. About 65% of rice produced will be used either for consumption or seed purpose. Hence, farmers save their produce till next season. But in storage it is infested with many insect pests. Due to lack of awareness about scientific storage techniques they are unable to produce quality seed.
 Materials and Methods: Eighty-five rice seed samples were collected from seven major rice producing areas of the Telangana. Seed samples were drawn from top, middle and bottom positions of the container with a sampler, from the storage structures. A total of fourteen seed stores were sampled and composite samples were collected from these stores for further assessment in a laboratory. From each container, three samples, each consisting of 500 g of rice seed was taken. Samples were bulked and 500 g sample prepared as sample. Each sample was put in a paper bag and labeled with the necessary information (name of the site, sample number, date of sampling, storage time.
 Results: Sixty three percent samples were infested with lesser grain borer; Rhyzopertha dominica; Angoumois grain moth; Sitotroga cereallela, rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae; rust red flour beetle, Tribolium cataneum; Saw toothed beetle Oryzaephillus surinamensis. Among these insect pests, Angoumois grain moth and lesser grain borer were predominant. The maximum seed moisture content (12.57%) was recorded in the samples of Miryalaguda district and minimum seed moisture content (9.39%) in samples of Warangal district. The maximum insect infestation 5.73% was recorded in samples of district Rangareddy and the minimum (0.23%) sample were infested in Mahaboobnagar district. The maximum germination (95%) was noticed in seed sample of Nizamabad district and the minimum (79.57%) in samples of Warangal district. However, the maximum 1745 and minimum 1400 seed vigour index were observed in Nizamabad and Mahaboobnagar districts, respectively. The overall average performance of seed samples collected different villages of seven districts of Telangana were seed moisture content (10.88%) seed damaged (2.16 %), seed germination (90.43%) and Seed Vigour Index (1539).

Incidence of stem rot disease of groundnut in relation to weather parameters in major groundnut growing areas of Telangana

Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important oilseed crop and the economic production of groundnut is constrained by soil-borne diseases. Stem rot, caused by the necrotrophic fungus Sclerotium rolfsii, was the most common soil-borne disease in groundnut. A roving survey was conducted in major groundnut growing areas of Telangana during kharif 2019 and rabi 2019-20 to collect a preliminary data of the incidence level and pattern of prevalence of the stem rot disease. The district of Warangal has the highest incidence of stem rot. The lowest incidence of stem rot was found in Telangana's Wanaparthy and Nagarkurnool districts. Disease incidence was correlated with weather parameters, during Kharif-2019, temperature, relative humidity and rainfall showed positive correlation, whereas evaporation showed negative correlation, during Rabi-2019-20, temperature, relative humidity and evaporation showed positive correlation and rainfall showed negative correlation. This study provided an elementary idea about the per cent disease incidence as well as paved the path for developing ecosystem specific management strategy to reduce impact of soil borne diseases of groundnut in different districts of Telangana.

Factors Impacting Psychological Empowerment of Rural Women Utilizing Microfinance in Selected Villages of Telangana

In order to contribute for the growth of society, Indian government has been introducing various schemes to empower women by numerous initiatives in rural areas by allowing them to market their goods, by encouraging them by providing equal opportunities and rights so that they benefit from trade and finance. Self-Help-Groups (SHGs) are enabling rural women to participate by educating them for their rights and policies and by providing leadership opportunities in the process of empowerment. Rural women of Telangana are taking up various entrepreneurial activities and are being empowered in all spheres with the help of micro finance schemes promoted by the government. The present study aims to learn the demographic profile and psychological factors of rural women who are members of SHGs in two districts of Telangana. The empirical study has made an attempt to learn their psychological perceptions in order to find the relationship between psychological factors and empowerment in view of the trends taking place in micro finance. The factor analysis revealed three factors and results show that age, education and social status has significant relationship between psychological factors and empowerment while marital status and annual income does not show significant relation. The study shows that majority of rural women were aware of smartphone usage and it was suggested that, as empowerment starts from within at individual level, government schemes should focus on educating rural women about the new advancements taking place in micro financing to make them more self-reliant and financially independent. Keywords: self-help-groups, micro financing, personal dignity, social support and empowerment DOI: 10.7176/RJFA/13-13-03 Publication date: July 31 st 2022

Factor Structure of the Telugu Version of the COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10-C) Administered on Grassroots Frontline Health Care Workers of Rural Telangana.

Background:During the COVID-19 pandemic, perceived stress is an important determinant of mental health problems, especially in health care workers (HCW). By and large, regional language tools to assess perceived stress in the context of the pandemic have not been validated in India. We aim to explore the factor structure of the Telugu translated version of the COVID-19 pandemic-related Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10-C) administered on grassroots frontline HCW of rural Telangana, India.Methods:Data relating to 311 grassroots frontline HCW consisting of accredited social health activists (ASHA), multipurpose health workers (MPHW), and auxiliary nurse and midwives (ANMs) working in rural primary health centers (PHC) in five districts of Telangana were analyzed. An exploratory factor analysis was conducted to identify latent factors. Convergent validity was assessed by computing Pearson product-moment correlations between the scores of PSS-10-C and Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scales.Results:The principal component analysis showed that the 10 items of the scale were significantly loaded by two latent factors with eigen values of 2.792 and 2.009, respectively. Factor solution showed that six and four items correlated with each of the two factors, respectively. Significant correlations between PSS-10-C, GAD-7, and PHQ-9 scores showed convergent validity. The two factors may represent substantive factors “perceived self-efficacy” and “perceived helplessness.” There may be an influence of the reverse-coded method on the factor solution.Conclusion:The Telugu translated version of PSS-10-C holds fair-to-good psychometric properties.

Rabbit’s Foot Grass (Polypogon: Poaceae), A New Generic Record for the Telangana Flora

Rabbit’s foot grass (Polypogon monspeliensis (L.) Desf.: Poaceae) is collected from Nirmal district of Telangana in India is reported for the first time in the state. A detailed description with photographs is provided to facilitate easy identification.

Constraints Faced by Farmers due to COVID-19 Disruptions on Agricultural Activities in Nalgonda District of Telangana, India

The objective of the study was to provide insights on disruptions faced by farmers due to COVID-19 for harvest of rabi (winter) crop and preparations for kharif (summer) crop and to suggest appropriate policy measures to enable farmers to cope with similar disruptions in agricultural activities. Data were collected from 125 farmers from five tribal hamlets of Deverkonda mandal of Nalgonda district of Telangana state. The major constraints reported by almost all the farmers (99.2%) were financial problems primarily due to loss of wage work, repayment of informal loans (83%), fear of contracting COVID-19 (92%) and health of family members (89%) which adversely affected their work efficiency. Paddy crop was the most affected as rated by 80.8% of the farmers, followed by vegetables 52.8%, groundnut 41.6%, cotton 37.6%, redgram 16.8% and fruit crops(sweet lime) 13.6% respectively. The farmers faced problems in land preparation (92.8%), high cost of inputs (96.8%), and low availability of inputs (75.2%), transport problems to procure inputs (96.8%), labour shortage (67.2%) and storage of unsold produce (75.2%). Shortage of animal feed (79.2%) and health care of animals (85.6%) were the constraints faced in livestock care. The harvesting of paddy was the most affected due to shortage of labour and harvesting machines. Community seed and animal feed banks, collectives like farmer producer organizations, collateral free credit, small packaging of inputs, promotion of youth entrepreneurship in processing storage and sale of produce and mechanization of small farms, direct procurement, logistic support are some of the immediate and mid- term measures being suggested for building resilience of food systems to face future risks.

Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on the Accredited Social Health Activists: An Exploratory Study in Rangareddy District of Telangana, India

The whole world is immensely dealing with the COVID-19 which was originated from the Wuhan city in the end of 2019. All the countries have been in a devastating state by the sudden outbreak which led to many deaths from the deadly infection. Many low- and middle-income countries are being suffering due to the poor healthcare infrastructure and a smaller number of healthcare workers. India is one of them. Due to the insufficient number of healthcare workers, the workload on the existing numbers has increased to a double-fold, especially on the grass-root workers. Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA), an initiative of the National Rural Health Mission in India is involved in the implementation of the primary health care facility at the grassroot level. The effective implementation of the health care policy depends on the performance of the ASHA workers. The present study aims to identify the challenges and barriers faced by the ASHA workers while delivering their services during the pandemic times and provide policy suggestions for strengthening of the grass-root level health care workers for facing any kind of future health emergencies.

Knowledge of the Extension Personnel on Tech-Enabled Platforms (TEP) in Telangana

Agriculture is an educational service which brings information and new technologies to farming communities to enable them to improve their production, income and standard of living. As agricultural extension is the vital component for the growth and development of the society, the inclusion of TEP in agricultural extension system, will defi nitely produce more unimaginable growth in fi eld of agriculture. Hence there is every need for the Agricultural Offi cer to transform their traditional style of functioning to the digital style of functioning which involves more usage of ICTs in their professional activities. Districts of Telangana i.e Mahabubnagar from Southern Telangana zone, Waranagal from Central Telanagana zone and Nizamabad from Northern Telangana zone and20 Agricultural offi cers (AO)and 20 Agricultural extension offi cers (AEO) from each erstwhile district are selected. Thus, a total of 120 extension personnel’s were selected randomly. Ex post-facto research design was used and data was collected interview schedule. The Technology enabled platforms used were Applications like Pantala yajamanyam, Rythu bandhu, Kisan Suvidha and portals like OLMS (Online License Management System), OSSDS (Online subsidy seed distribution system), Farm inventory, Agrisnet, PM kisan yojana, PMKSY, PKVY, m-kisan and Soil health card portal, m- kisan and Kisan Suvidha were not at all used by the AEOs. Knowledge test is conducted and the results AOs had high level of knowledge and AEOs had medium Knowledge.

"Assess the Awareness, Need, Preference of the Rural People Towards Insurance and Investment Schemes in Nizamabad District of Telangana"

"Assess the Awareness, Need, Preference of the Rural People Towards Insurance and Investment Schemes in Nizamabad District of Telangana"

Factor Structure of the Telugu Version of the Insomnia Severity Index Administered to Primary Care Health Workers of Rural Telangana During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Objective: Prevalence of insomnia has been high during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, especially in health care workers. The 7-item Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) is the most commonly used tool to assess insomnia severity and its impact. The ISI has not been translated and validated for use among Telugu-speaking health care workers. The objective of this study was to explore the factor structure of the Telugu-translated version of the ISI, administered among primary care health workers in rural Telangana, India.Methods: The Telugu version of the ISI was administered to 315 grass-root primary care health workers in rural primary health centers of 5 districts of Telangana. Exploratory factor analysis was conducted to measure the factor structure of the translated version of the ISI. Data were collected in August 2021.Results: The principal component analysis showed that the 7 items of the scale significantly loaded on to 1 latent factor with an eigenvalue of 4.036, explaining 57.66% of the total variance. The factor reliability (Cronbach α) was 0.876.Conclusions: The results show that the Telugu translated version of the ISI conforms to previously found factor solutions and is valid to assess insomnia severity in primary care health workers.

Prediction for rice yield using data mining approach in Ranga Reddy district of Telangana, India


 In order to explore the possibility of crop estimation, data mining approach being multidisciplinary was followed. The district of Ranga Reddy, Telangana State, India has been chosen for the study and its year wise average yield data of rice and daily weather over a period of 31 years i.e. from 1988-2019 (30th to 47th Standard Meteorological Weeks). Data mining tool WEKA (V3.8.1). Min- Max Normalization technique followed by Feature Selection algorithm, ‘cfsSubsetEval’ was also adopted to improve quality and accuracy of data mining algorithms. Thus, after cleaning and sorting of data, five classifiers viz., Logistic, MLP (Multi Layer Perceptron), J48 Classifier, LMT (Logistic Model Trees) and PART Classifier were employed over the trained data. The results indicated that the function based and tree based models have better performance over rule based model. In case of function based two models examined, viz., Logistic and MLP, the later performed better over Logistic model. Between tree based two models, LMT performed better over J48. Thus, MLP classifier model found to be the best fit model in predicting rice yields as it recorded an accuracy of 74.19 %, sensitivity of 0.742 and precision of 0.743 as compared with other models. The MLP has also achieved the highest F1 score of (0.742) and MCC (0.581).

The Early Historical Culture In Peddapalli And Jagitial Districts Of Telangana - A Study

It is now an increasingly recognized fact that in early India, the pace of historical change varied from region to region, and even the process of change was not quite identical everywhere. To a large extent this divergence is explained by the obvious influence exerted by the ecology of each region on its socio-economic pattern in the ancient period. Peddapalli and Jagitial districts located in the northern region of the Indian state of Telangana. These districts lie to the south of mighty river Godavari. By virtue of its proximity to the river Godavari, These districts has been the cradle of culture and civilization through centuries dating back to the early phases of the dawn of history. . The recent archaeological operations at Dhulikatta and Peddabankur in Peddapalli district, and Kotilingala in Jagitial district have thrown ample light on the history of the Satavahanas in these districts. The present paper deals with the early historical culture, early historical religious architecture and objects of early historical sites in Peddapalli and Jagitial districts of Telangana

Development of multivariate integrated drought monitoring index (MIDMI) for Warangal region of Telangana, India

Abstract Agricultural drought is one of the most frequent natural disasters in India's southern part. Remote sensing-based drought indices give advantages in terms of continuous monitoring of land surface. The crop production in the Warangal region in India's southern part is adversely affected due to insufficient rainfall and poor irrigation management. This study aims to develop a multivariate remote sensing-based composite drought index (CDI) to monitor the agricultural drought. Landsat-8 satellite data for all the 11 subregions of Warangal urban and 15 subregions of the rural district of Telangana from 2013 to 2020 for the month of May is used to obtain drought indices. The drought indices are used in this study to develop MIDMI and are compared according to the percentage area of the Warangal region under five different drought categories. In this study, the MIDMI is computed by a weighted average of five vegetation drought indices for the Warangal region as per the method developed by Iyengar and Sudarshan for the multivariate data. MIDMI for all the 26 subregions of the Warangal rural and Warangal urban districts is between 0.4 and 0.6, which makes the Warangal region moderately vulnerable to agricultural drought.

Microbiological quality of street vended Panipuri in Jagtial district of Telangana, India

Street vended foods have gained a lot of popularity in recent days owing to their appealing taste and flavour. These foods apart from the taste and flavour, have been cost-effective and easily available for all people. That has been the reason for such high demand for these foods in all walks of life and are being relished by the populations from the rural to urban areas. Street foods have been satisfying the hunger of a good percentage of people at an affordable cost. On the other side of the situation, these foods have been posing a good risk of health problems for the people because of the unhygienic methods and process of preparation of these foods by the mostly illiterate community of businessmen who have been preparing them. Hence the need of evaluating these foods for the contamination levels and risk factors for human health have been exponentially felt and the present study was taken up. Therefore, the present study was carried out to check the microbiological quality of street vended panipuri sold in Korutla, Metpally, and Jagtial towns of Jagtial Dist, Telangana state. A total of ninety-six samples viz., water, dall and kachori (thirty two each) were aseptically collected from various vendors and were subjected for standard plate count, total Coliform count, total Salmonella count and total Staphylococcus aureus count. Results revealed that 74% of samples had high loads of bacterial pathogens such as Escherichia coli (41%), Staphylococcus aureus (31%), sp. (20%), Pseudomonas sp. (5%) and yeast (3%). Hence, it has been enumerated that the quality of street foods must be monitored, and standards of the microbiological load have to be followed for human health safety.

Yield gaps and constraints to improve soybean productivity in Adilabad district of Telangana

Yield gaps and constraints to improve soybean productivity in Adilabad district of Telangana

Evaluation of different pest management modules in bitter gourd

Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) is a popular and cosmopolitan cucurbit crop grown in all the districts of Telangana. Fruit fly (Bactrocera cucurbitae) is the major pest that attacks its fruits and causes a great loss to the bitter gourd farmers. An experiment was conducted for three years on bitter gourd var. Amansri, in randomized block design with four treatments and five replications including control to evaluate the efficacy of different pest management modules against pests of bitter gourd during 2016-19 at Vegetable Research Station, Rajendranagar, Sri Konda Laxman Telangana State Horticulture University. Red pumpkin beetle and fruit fly were the major pests. For the management of red pumpkin beetles all the modules were effective compared to control. Among the tested modules, lowest fruit fly damage was recorded in the Integrated module (Seed treatment with thiamethoxam 70 WS 5-10 g/kg seed, removal of damaged cotyledonary leaves, spraying emamectin benzoate 25 WG @ 0.4 g/l, spraying of neem oil 3000 ppm @ 5 ml/l, Installation of cuelure traps 15/acre, spraying spinosad 45 SC @ 0.3 ml/l.) with high yield (16.00 t/ha) and highest benefit cost ratio (2.61).