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Author: Manpreet Kaur × End date: 2023 × Start date: 2023 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Economic evaluation of climate smart agriculture technologies in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2023-03) Manpreet Kaur; Malik, D. P.
    Climate smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach which guides the actions to transform and re-orient the system of agriculture to increase agricultural productivity sustainably, adaptation to climate change and reduction of greenhouse gases emission. The climate smart agriculture technologies constituents a set of technologies grouped together to form five major components; carbon and energy smart technologies, knowledge smart technologies, nutrient smart technologies, water smart technologies and weather smart technologies. A purposive multistage sampling technique was used for selection of cultivators from both climate smart villages (CSVs) and non-climate smart (Non-CSVs) villages of both Kurukshetra and Sirsa districts selected purposively from east and west agro-climatic zone of Haryana. In Kurukshetra district, the increase in the returns over cost A2 + FL in CSVs as estimated through propensity score matching was found to be ₹3898.75, ₹6397.19 and ₹11457.74 for a hectare paddy, wheat and mustard, respectively with the adoption of CSA technologies. In Sirsa district, per hectare increase in returns over cost A2 + FL as estimated through PSM was calculated to be ₹6977.13, ₹10477.88, ₹7577.18 and ₹8859.20 for paddy, wheat, cotton and rice, respectively in CSVs. For cattle enterprise, an increase in returns over variable cost for both Kurukshetra (₹37.71 animal-1 day-1) and Sirsa district (₹42.45 animal-1 day-1) was estimated by PSM. Similarly, increment in returns over variable cost for buffalo were attained in CSVs of Kurukshetra district (₹45.87 animal-1 day-1) and Sirsa district (₹78.93 animal-1 day-1). Based on DID technique, increase of total farm income in Kurukshetra district (₹194074.30) and Sirsa district (₹92648.04) were attained in CSVs over non-CSVs. Pathway analysis revealed that CSA technologies had been proved to be very successful in attaining the goals of food security, adaptation and mitigation. The Improved crop varieties, laser land leveler, concentrate feeding for livestock, happy seeder, ICT based agro-met advisories, crop insurance and contingent crop measures were identified as high rated technologies whereas, zero till drill, green manuring, SSNM, super seeder, fodder management, intercropping with legumes were medium or poor rated technologies. The major constraints identified like land holding status, low education and skills, low profitability, lack of adequate credit facilities, delayed release of subsidies and lack of capacity building of cultivators were causing hindrance in the adoption of CSA technologies.
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    Response of time of planting on growth, flowering, spike yield and essential oils in tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa L.) genotypes
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2023-03) Manpreet Kaur; Beniwal, B.S.
    The present experiment “Response of time of planting on growth, flowering, spike yield and essential oils of tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa L.) genotypes” was conducted at Experimental farm of Department of Horticulture and Centre for Bio-Nanotechnology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during 2019-20 and 2020-21. During the year 2019-20 crop was taken as fresh, while during 2020-21 all the observations were recorded on ratoon crop. Two individual experiments were laid out. In first experiment three time of planting (March, April & May) and six genotypes (Pearl Double, Hyderabad Double, Mexican Single, Prajwal, Suvasini & Vaibhav) were taken, while in second experiment two harvesting stage of florets (Bud burst stage & Fullbloom stage), three planting time and six genotypes were selected. Both the experiments were laid out in randomized block design with three replications. The observations were recorded on various growth, flowerings and bulb yield parameters. The Statistical analysis of data of first experiment revealed that better results in terms of growth, flowering, spike yield and bulb yield of tuberose were found in Mexican Single followed by Prajwal when planted in March, while in second experiment highest absolute was recovered from May planted Prajwal genotype when harvested at bud-burst stage during both the years.