Madurai District Research Articles

Assessment of irrigation water quality (Ground water) of Melur block, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu

The irrigation water quality is gaining importance day by day due to the changes in the urbanisation and industrialisation which over utilise the under ground water. The ground water samples were collected from 15 revenue villages of Melur block, Madurai, Tamil Nadu during March, 2017 at variegated intervals, processed and analysed for the physico-chemical, anionic and cationic parameters to find out their quality by arriving calculated parameters viz., RSC (Residual Sodium Carbonate) and SAR (Sodium Absorption Ratio). Though the overall values lies well within the safe limit of water quality, the 25 percent water samples found to be alkaline, 42 percent found to slightly saline & two percent found to be critical in salinity levels. The highest value of 9.23, 2.62 dSm-1, 3.52 and 8.51 of pH, EC, RSC and SAR were observed in the irrigation water samples. The good quality of 92.8 per cent, marginally saline 2.9 per cent and marginally alkali of 4.3 per cent of irrigation water samples have been recorded as per AICRP, 1989 classification.

Occupational Health: A Special Reference to Lung Disease in Petrochemical, Metal and Building Material Industrial Workers in Melur Taluk Madurai District

Occupational Health: A Special Reference to Lung Disease in Petrochemical, Metal and Building Material Industrial Workers in Melur Taluk Madurai District

A Study on the Awareness on New Education Policy (2019) among the Secondary School Teachers in Madurai District

National Education Policy (2019) draft released from the Government of India, and they gave two months for teachers, teacher educators, principals, and policymakers to submit their perception. The researchers want to find awareness on National Education Policy (2019) among secondary school teachers in Madurai District. In his study, he finds that mainly the awareness level is below average. He finds the awareness according to the variable Gender, Location, Type of Institution, years of service, and type of family.

Medicinal trees from home gardens of urban areas in Madurai District of Tamil Nadu, Southern India

Abstract. Shanmugam S, Jeyaprabakaran G, Rajendran K. 2020. Medicinal trees from home gardens of urban areas in Madurai District of Tamil Nadu, Southern India. Asian J Ethnobiol 3: 10-15. Home gardens provide a diverse and stable supply of socio-economic products. They serve as conservation spots of many useful and rare medicinal plants. Present research work aims to elucidate the medicinally important trees growing in home gardens and their role in the health care of the inhabitants living in four urban areas of Madurai District, Tamil Nadu, India. Data was collected by interviewing 20 informants (14 male and 6 female) regarding the ethnomedicinal uses of plants prescribed for the treatment of several ailments in total. We recorded a total of 63 medicinal remedies prepared from 54 tree species belonging to 52 genera and 27 families used to treat 35 illnesses. It was found that the most dominant family was Apocynaceae (5 species). Leaf was the most used plant part (28.56%) and using raw material (20.64%) was the most was treating a particular disease. Phytochemical and pharmacological values of these medicinally important trees should be tested and awareness programs should also be conducted to encourage people to grow many more useful plants in their home gardens.

Statistical analysis of food grains production in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu

The Present study was conducted to assess the status of foodgrains production in Madurai district. This study secondary data for the period 1997-98 to 2014-15 selected foodgrains area, production and yield were used. The results of growth rate indicate that rice crop and total cereals area and production showed negative growth during the study periods and yield shows positive growth rate. The similar trend occurs in the overall food grains area and production growth rate also negative and yield shows positive growth rate. Based on Instability analysis, selected cereals and overall foodgrains area, production and yield shows moderate and high instability.

Development, standardization, quality evaluation and shelf life studies of indigenous beverage – Jigarthanda

The paper elaborates the investigation carried out to determine and standardize traditional beverage Jigarthanda, indigenous to the state of Tamil Nadu in India, the beverage hails from Madurai district. The paper discusses about the formulating and selecting ingredient levels of almond gum, basil seeds and sherbet concentration for the preparation of Jigarthanda. The chemical attributes comprise of protein, fat, carbohydrate and ash content analysis. From the results of the study it was apparent that 50% almond gum and 5% basil seed, 25g Ice cream and 10 ml evaporated milk as good combination to combine and process a ready to consume Jigarthanda. Different flavours of sherbet like rose, nannari (Indian sarsaparilla) and pine apple was subjected to different concentration and added to the beverage. The combination of 50% almond gum, 5%basil seeds and 8% syrup showed the better overall acceptability and comestible than others. The beverage contained Protein in the range of 1.64 to 1.75%, Fat was 3.19 to 3.98%, 0.33 to 0.36% Ash, moisture content ranged between 0.83 to 0.84% and carbohydrate was 9.97% to 11.73%.

Intelligent Medical Information System

Now a days, meeting doctors is quite too frequent. People always meet doctors in order to get treatment for their symptoms. Existing clinic registration systems have to make an appointment with a doctor only when they visit the clinic or hospital and wait in queues for long hours in order to get treatment and everything was tedious too because everything was done manually. So many mistakes could have been made. Therefore, many online appointment systems have been developed in order to book appointments with doctors through mobile application. No priority based appointments and an emergency situation for appointments with doctors is considered. All these aspects are taken into consideration and an online appointment booking system with doctors is especially designed for the Madurai city, Tamil Nadu, India. We will design an android application that tracks the location of a user using particle swarm optimization algorithm and also it displays the details of all the hospitals and clinics in the Madurai district and the available specialists in each stream. This system uses java programming language as interface between the user and doctor and MySQL as the database.

Women Micro Entrepreneurs in Madurai Districts

Women Micro Entrepreneurs in Madurai Districts

A Study on Work Life Balance of Women Entrepreneurs in Madurai District

A Study on Work Life Balance of Women Entrepreneurs in Madurai District

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice in Dengue Endemic Areas in Madurai District

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice in Dengue Endemic Areas in Madurai District

Talent Management an Emerging Trend for Employee Effectiveness in Corporate Hospitals

Talent management is considered an important factor for attaining competitive advantage and development of the firm in the current era. It deals with filling a vacant position with a talented workforce than a skilled workforce for the long-run objective of the firm. The present study was carried with an objective to identify the effectiveness of talent management practices and strategies in corporate hospitals. The study was conducted with 290 respondents in corporate hospitals in the Madurai district using a structured questionnaire. The result indicates the intention of talent management practices and strategies was; to build a deeper reservoir of successors at every level, creating a culture that makes employees stay with the firm and to identify gaps in the current workforce and their competency level. But, the talent management practices and strategies are effective in; Aligning workforce with the mission and vision of the organization, creating suitable policies that encourage individual career growth and development opportunities and Identifying and locating the qualified professionals needed.

Entrepreneurial Opportunities for the Sustainable Development of Madurai Tourism

The tourism industry has tremendous capacity to generate direct, indirect and induced entrepreneurial opportunity. The tourism industry can be divided into five career areas such as accommodation, food and beverage services, recreation and entertainment, transportation and travel services. All of these areas involve providing business opportunity at different levels of socio economic people. Hotels, restaurants, tour operators and travel agency have been providing direct business opportunity to people at different level of local community. Hence the study made an attempt to discuss the entrepreneurial opportunity existed Madurai district, Madurai is the one of the important tourist place in India especially in Tamilnadu where we able to find many kind of tourism like heritage, cultural, religious and recreation places.

Study on efficacy of sclerotherapy for grade II haemorrhoids in a tertiary care hospital, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu

Study on efficacy of sclerotherapy for grade II haemorrhoids in a tertiary care hospital, Madurai district, Tamil Nadu

Making the decision to donate eyes: Perspectives from the families of the deceased in Madurai, India.

Purpose:To identify factors affecting family members' decision whether to donate eye organs.Methods:A community-based case-control study based on in-home interviews with families of deceased individuals who had or had not donated eye organs, in Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India. Data collected were knowledge and awareness of eye donations, whether the deceased individual had expressed or pledged willingness to donate, and family members' attitudes and willingness to donate their own eye organs.Results:Seventy-six families of donors and 256 families of non-donors completed the survey. Multivariable analysis showed that the following variables were significantly associated with a donation: age, whether the deceased had registered for eye donation, pre-expressed willingness of deceased to donate, whether family members personally know beneficiaries of eye donations, and higher score on a scale evaluating knowledge and awareness about eye donation. The majority of donors' families (71%) had been encouraged by someone to donate. Among non-donor families, a substantially larger fraction (52.8%) indicated they would have donated had someone reminded or encouraged them to do so, in comparison with those who indicated lack of awareness or knowledge (14.5%).Conclusion:Community programs are likely to be effective if they encourage individuals to pledge their eyes or express their willingness to donate their eyes to family members in advance of death; they increase public awareness of the value of eye donation. A friend, family member, neighbor or counselor approaching bereaved families and having a dialogue about eye donation would substantially increase the probability of a decision to donate.

Value chain analysis of jasmine in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu

Recognizing the importance of jasmine flower in Tamil Nadu from both demand and supply sides, the study was undertaken to analyze the value chain of jasmine. Madurai district was purposively selected for the study as it is one of the major jasmine producing districts in Tamil Nadu. Two blocks namely Usilampatti and Thiruparankundram based on maximum area and production of jasmine were selected. A sample of 60 farmers was selected and data were collected through personal interview. It was found that there were four value chains for marketing of jasmine and more than 70 per cent of jasmine was moving through channel II and channel III. Shepherd's marketing efficiency value of channel IV was the highest. The value chain IV ie farmers-commission agents-retailers-consumers was the efficient value chain.

Influence of colored plastic mulching and drip irrigation levels on soil temperature, plant growth and fruit quality of tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum)

Plastic mulching has significantly enhanced vegetable production worldwide since the 1950. It is used extensively due to its properties improved soil, plant growth, fruit quality properties and low cost. A field experiment was conducted to evaluate the influence of various color plastic mulches (white on black, silver on black and black on silver) and irrigation levels (60, 80 and 100 per cent ETc) on plant growth parameters and weed suppression in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) cultivation at Madurai district, TamilNadu. The experiment was laid out according to factorial randomized block design with three replications. The results observed were soil temperature increased about 2-40C under the colored plastic mulches as compared to control plot(Without mulch). Growth parameters of tomato such as plant height, number of branches per plant and leaf area index and total soluble solids of tomato were significantly influenced by colored plastic mulching and different irrigation levels. The maximum plant height (123.2 cm), maximum number of branches per plant (22.8), highest leaf area index (3.01) and highest chlorophyll (56.58) were recorded under white on black plastic mulch with 80 per cent Etc of drip irrigation when compared to other treatments.

Prevalence and perception of dental fluorosis among the school-going children and its impact on academic performance

Aim: The prevalence of dental fluorosis in Southern India has been reported to be on higher side. In Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, the dental fluorosis incidence among 13–15-year-old school children was observed at 87.7%. The aim of the present investigation is to analyze the prevalence of dental fluorosis among 12–14-year-old school-going children and understand its impact on their academic performance. Materials and Methods: A total 693 students from four different schools were screened for dental fluorosis and severity using Thylstrup–Fejerskov index. Students' academic performance, class attendance, awareness about the condition, esthetic perception about dental fluorosis, and friends' attitude toward their teeth were evaluated. Nonparametric Mann–Whitney U and Kruskal–Wallis tests were employed to assess the influence of dental fluorosis presence on the academic performance. Results: Four hundred and thirteen (59.6%) students had dental fluorosis, and the mean number of teeth affected was 4.15 ± 1.70. Significantly (P

Technology utilization pattern of pulse growers in Madurai district, Tamil

Study was conducted to find out the technology utilization pattern of pulses production in Madurai district of Tamil Nadu with the objective of analyzing the knowledge and adoption level of recommended TNAU technologies by the farmers for pulse production. For the study 150 pulse growers covering nine villages of three blocks were randomly selected. The research findings indicated that majority of the pulse growers were aware of varieties of blackgram(CO6, VBN4 and VBN6), greengram[CO6, CO8, VBN(GG)3], red gram[CO(RG)7, VBN 1 and VBN2]and the scientific technologies recommended by TNAU. Due to non-availability of timely inputs and lack of precise knowledge on critical technologies such as seed treatment, mitigation of moisture, enhancement of flowering and foliar sprays etc and marketing problems they were unable to get good remuneration. Hence policies such as developing extension methodologies for intensive pulse production, strengthening input delivery mechanism, formation of pulse growers association, empowering women on value addition of pulses are recommended.

An economic analysis of production and marketing of jasmine in Madurai District of Tamil Nadu

An economic analysis of production and marketing of jasmine in Madurai District of Tamil Nadu

Detox potential of medicinal plants used by traditional healers in rural areas of Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India

Detox potential of medicinal plants used by traditional healers in rural areas of Madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India