The present study is related to the importance of foreign investment that highlights the flow of foreign capital into the agricultural sector. As agriculture is predominant in Indian economy & it contributes a larger share to the growth of national income. Agricultural growth is the backbone of...

In this paper we present an integrated nurse staffing and scheduling system for analyzing nurse workforce management policies. A mixed-integer linear programming nurse staffing model is used to determine aggregate labor requirements for a 6-month planning horizon. Subsequently, a mixed-integer...

The effect of sand mining on the economic performance of groundwater irrigation has been studied in the Panruti taluk of Cuddalore district in Tamil Nadu. A comparison of water productivity for different farms-size categories has been done in sand mining and non-sand mining blocks. The cropping...