IMPACT : International Journal of Research in Business Management

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Authors: Sabbineni Poojitha & Rajeshwari Panigrahi

Broiler poultry farming in India has a tremendous improvement from past decades due to the increasing demand, purchasing power of the consumers, adoption of various technologies and fast returns. Most of the farmers in India are uneducated. Most of the farmers are even not trained and the trained farmers are supposed to earn more profits than the non trained farmers. The broiler poultry farming in India is carried in two ways – self-farming and contract farming. Self-farming is a process where farmers alone take care of input procurement, rearing and marketing the output. Contract farming is where the input is provided by the integrators and output is also taken by the integrator, supervision is done by the integrator.

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Authors: Rinku Dulloo & M. M Puri

A Smartphone is a cell phone having an advanced operating system which can be performed like a normal computer. In this study, we examine the usage of Smartphone among first-year engineering and management students of affiliated colleges of SSPU. The research will be carried out using questionnaires distributed to 100 students. Based on this data, the trends will be evaluated, by categorizing usage into 2 types; normal usage and usage for learning. To study, the trends in Smartphone usage for learning, questions related to learning activities such as the benefit of Smartphone for education in terms of technical topics, soft skills, aptitude and reasoning, general knowledge are asked. This paper is organized as follows; Section 2 presents a literature review, Section 3 presents objectives, Section 4 discusses the methodology used. Section 5 presents tables and graphs, section 6 discusses research findings and section 7 gives suggestions. This study is concluded in Section 8.