Nigerian smallholder farmers suffer huge losses on annual basis in terms of monetary value as a result postharvest due to factors such inadequate storage/processing facilities, poor transportation system, lack power supply and unorganized marketing network. With the largest population African continent spiraling increase, corresponding increase food is inevitable. The security situation Nigeria...

Coconut Producer Companies (CPC) are formed with the main objective of socio economic development farmers by providing a fair, steady and reasonable income organizing unorganized coconut sector through farmer collectives. The specific study was to analyse performance assess problems faced CPCs in Western Tamil Nadu. For this study, data collected using Focus Group Discussion personal interview....

In order to represent and reconstruct sharp features (i.e., corners) by an implicitly defined curve, we add so–called corner detector functions, which are special radial basis functions, to the function defining the initial curve. The parameters controlling them are automatically adjusted by applying an evolution process.

It is said that ninety percent of the world’s population does not have the social protection. The statement however true does not concern us much as we are some times least worried about the problems of the neighbor at least not to speak of the town we live in, but the problem for our policy makers is not that of the world but of our own population and to be more nearer to the issue it is not e...

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for closed and smooth 3D surface reconstruction from unorganized planar cross sections. We address the problem in its full generality, and show its effectiveness on sparse set of cutting planes. Our algorithm is based on the construction of a globally consistent signed distance function over the cutting planes. It uses a split-and-merge approach utilising ...