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This study has been undertaken in APMC, Bangarpet taluk which has highest market arrivals of paddy in Kolar District of Karnataka. The study focused on assessment of market arrivals, prices behavior and forecasting of paddy. The study is based on secondary data on market arrivals and prices of paddy collected from the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Bengaluru and Krishimaratavahini as well as records maintained in APMC. The results of the study revealed that the extent of variability in arrivals of paddy in APMC yard of Bangarpet was shown highest during the month of December followed by May. Where as lowest arrivals were recorded during October. The prices of paddy in APMC yard were recorded highest in November and December, whereas the lowest prices were prevailed in April and May. The Box-Jenkins model is applied and it is concerned with fitting of a mixed Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) to a given set of time series data. ARIMA models were used to study market fluctuations with advantage of this model lies in its ability to quantify random variations present in time series. Seasonal ARIMA were used to quantify the variation to predict the future arrivals and prices of paddy. Forecasting predicted that the increasing trend in arrivals and prices of paddy. There is no price change over the years although the variations in monthly market arrivals in the APMC, Bangarpet. Based on the findings of the study, it can be concluded that market intermediaries should adopt modern technology in rice value chain for more income. The farmers and rice millers skilled in processing and retailing can select for value addition and rice mills should concentrate on more investment in paddy processing units in Bangarpet to enhance availability, accessibility and selling branded packages of rice to neighboring towns and cities for realizing higher incomes in rice business. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is posing major havoc on vegetable production jeopardizing Indian agriculture. During, April 2023, whitefly, B. tabaci sample was collected from the cucumber fields of Muthagadahalli village in the Bengaluru North taluk, Bengaluru district of Karnataka. The total genomic DNA was extracted from a single adult whitefly using the Chelex 100 method. The identification of whitefly cryptic species was performed by amplifying the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit one (mtCOI) gene using gene-specific primers of B. tabaci. PCR results revealed expected amplificon size of 800 bp. Subsequently, the PCR product was subjected to Sanger sequencing. The nucleotide (nt) sequence of the whitefly sample collected from Muthagadahalli exhibited 98-100 per cent identity with sequences belonging to Asia I whitefly cryptic species known to infect different crops worldwide. The sequence demarcation graph and phylogenetic analysis provided substantial evidence for the present findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses upon informal e-waste recyclers who subsidise the environmental costs of Bangalore’s information technology boom. It illustrates how improvement schemes devised by development agencies, to make Bangalore’s e-waste disposal practices more sustainable, reproduced the effects of bourgeois environmentalism and effectively cast off informal recyclers from having a substantial role in the city’s emerging regime of e-waste management. Being cast out and rendered superfluous has been a deeply degrading experience for Bangalore’s informal recyclers. In order to foreground this experience I draw upon the notion of abjection and show how informal recyclers are constituted as abject residents who must be confined to collecting and processing waste from the most marginal frontiers of the city’s e-waste circuits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article cites a systematic clinical and biochemical survey of 729 cases of mental subnormality attending the out-patient department of the Mental Hospital in Bangalore, India. Urine samples were collected and routine chemical and microscopic examination was conducted. Special chemical and chromatographic analyses were also made. The clinical and biochemical screening have revealed a high degree of consanguinity. It also detected 7 cases with phenylketonuria and 2 with Hartnup's disease. In most of the said cases, a history of consanguinity was noted not only among parents but also among grandparents.