Rainfall plays an important role in agricultural production system. Studying the rainfall distribution through the statistical models is also essential in agricultural field. In this paper, an attempt has been made to show the pattern of rainfall in TNAU1 Station Coimbatore through the Statistical distributions. In the study, the different statistical distributions are fitted for seasonal rainfall data and the best fit is determined. The historical rainfall data were collected for 34 years (1982 -2015) from the Meteorological Observatory AC & RI Coimbatore. The statistical distributions like Normal, Log-normal, Weibull, Gamma, Logistic, Exponential and Generalized Extreme value (GEV) are used for three different seasons such as Kharif, Rabi and summer. For Parameter estimation the Method of Maximum Likelihood are used here. The Comparisons of best distributions by goodness of fit-tests such as Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Anderson Darling test and Chi square test are also made in this paper. The trend test such as Mann Kendall trend test and Sen's slope estimation were performed for studying the rainfall pattern. The Maximum rainfall occurred in the Rabi season with 9.028 (mm) and minimum rainfall in the summer with 0.371 (mm).

BACKGROUND: Hitherito, majority of health problems are related to the poor sanitary conditions prevailing in the premises of households major parts of which are in the rural areas in India. RESEARCH QUESTION: what is the sanitary condition and its impact on the health of weaker sections of the society living in rural area of the Krishna District? OBJECTIVES: 1. To know the sanitary condition prevailing in weaker sections of the society in rural area of Krishna Distrct. 2. To identify the impact of poor sanitation on the health of the study group. STUDY DESIGN: Cross sectional study. SETTING: Rural area of Krishna District, Andhara Pradesh. PARTICIPANTS: People belong to BPL (Below Poverty Line) residing in rural area of Krishna district. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Proportions, percentages and chi-square test. RESULTS: In this study group access to safe water source was observed to be 86.18% and access to improved sanitation is 27.21%. About 50% of the study people are practicing open field defection; about 37% of households treat the water at domestic level. Our study findings related to hand washing practices with reference to after defection, before eating and before preparing food are 43%, 41% and 28% respectively. The current study has relived overcrowding (69%), lack of adequacy of ventilation(73%), lake of adequacy of lightening (75.45%) lack of adequacy of water supply(57.58%), absence of separate kitchen(86%), no sewage drains (47%). In this study about 54% adults and 57% of children are found to be suffering from malnutrition, 25% have history of diarrhoea, 46.21% fever and 31.82% passing worms in stools. And significantly 46.97% of study subjects suffering from Anaemia.

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The banking industry serves as the backbone of any country’s modern economy. So, country’s economic development is mainly based on the banking sector growth. The developments in information technology field positively impact the banking sector’s growth. The main aim of this study is to identify the factors that positively influence the customers to use digital banking services. Based on convenient sampling technique, 120 sample respondents were interviewed in the western zone of TamilNadu (Coimbatore, Namakkal). Factor analysis has been applied to identify the factors that influence the customers to use digital banking services. Some of the factors like actual use of digital banking services, attitude, perceived security, perceived price highly influenced the customers to use digital banking services.

Since green revolution, Indian Agricultural production has attained tremendous changes to satisfy the needs of the rapidly increasing population. One such change is the extreme usage of chemical pesticides for plant protection. Recently, there is a rising concern about the negative effects of these chemical pesticides on human and soil health. To combat these ill effects, alternative solutions such as environment friendly bio pesticides are being employed. Hence, there is a need to gain a deeper understanding about the farmers' preference towards bio fungicides. This study provides insight into the various factors that play a major role in motivating farmers towards purchase of bio-fungicides. An exploratory factor analysis was carried out and the result showed that dealers influence, technical guidance, product Quality, advertisement and credit availability were some of the major factors that influenced the farmers towards purchase of bio-fungicides.