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Anand Agricultural University, Anand

Anand Agricultural University (AAU) was established in 2004 at Anand with the support of the Government of Gujarat, Act No.(Guj 5 of 2004) dated April 29, 2004. Caved out of the erstwhile Gujarat Agricultural University (GAU), the dream institution of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and Dr. K. M. Munshi, the AAU was set up to provide support to the farming community in three facets namely education, research and extension activities in Agriculture, Horticulture Engineering, product Processing and Home Science. At present there seven Colleges, seventeen Research Centers and six Extension Education Institute working in nine districts of Gujarat namely Ahmedabad, Anand, Dahod, Kheda, Panchmahal, Vadodara, Mahisagar, Botad and Chhotaudepur AAU's activities have expanded to span newer commodity sectors such as soil health card, bio-diesel, medicinal plants apart from the mandatory ones like rice, maize, tobacco, vegetable crops, fruit crops, forage crops, animal breeding, nutrition and dairy products etc. the core of AAU's operating philosophy however, continues to create the partnership between the rural people and committed academic as the basic for sustainable rural development. In pursuing its various programmes AAU's overall mission is to promote sustainable growth and economic independence in rural society. AAU aims to do this through education, research and extension education. Thus, AAU works towards the empowerment of the farmers.

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Subject: Agricultural Economics × Start date: 1965 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS, LABOUR SCARCITY AND IT’S IMPACT ON AGRICULTURE IN MIDDLE GUJARAT
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2021) Rachana Kumari Bansal; Dr. Y. C. Zala
    The present investigation was undertaken to understand the entire agricultural labour dynamics i.e. socio-economic perspectives of agricultural labourers focusing on income, employment, wages, consumption and migration, labour scarcity, its magnitude (crop wise, month wise, operation wise and season-wise), it’s impact on cropping pattern and productivity, causes and possible solution in tribal and non-tribal areas of middle Gujarat. The data for the study were drawn from both primary and secondary sources. The primary data were collected from 120 agriculture labour and 144 farmers covering marginal, small, medium and large farms from four clusters or twelve villages of four taluka from tribal area (Dahod district) as well as non-tribal area (Anand district) of middle Gujarat region for the year 2019-20.
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    IMPACT EVALUATION OF NARMADA IRRIGATION WATER ON PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY OF MIDDLE GUJARAT
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2021) Gamit Pooja V.; Dr. K. S. Jadav
    The Narmada canal is a contour canal in northwestern india that brings water from the Sardar Sarovar Dam to the state of Gujarat and then into Rajashthan state. Narmada irrigation has played a prominent role in strengthening India’s rural economy. It is bringing in socio-economic transformations in the country. The present investigation was undertaken with a view to study the land use pattern and cost and returns, resource use efficiency, decomposition analysis and constraints of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries in the area of middle Gujarat.
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    PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF MILK ACROSS DIFFERENT HERD SIZES OF BUFFALOES AND CROSSBRED COWS IN MIDDLE GUJARAT
    (B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2020) Maitri Satashia; Dr. R. S. Pundir
    A multistage stratified sampling design was used for selecting the sample. The study covered 6 talukas, 24 villages and 240 dairy farmers (59 marginal, 60 small, 59 medium and 62 large) from Anand, Kheda and Panchmahal districts. For the study of marketing aspects of milk, 10 functionaries at each stage of marketing channel in each selected district were chosen. The primary data were collected for the agricultural year 2018-2019 by personal interview method. In order to fulfill the stipulated objectives of the study, the major analytical tools employed were tabular analysis and cost concepts. Moreover, Cobb-Douglas production function was employed to examine the resource use efficiency in milk production. Marginal value products and marginal factor cost ratios were also calculated for the resources used.
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    POVERTY AND ITS DETERMINANTS AMONG FARM SECTOR IN TRIBAL AND NON-TRIBAL AREA OF CENTRAL GUJARAT
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2019) Macwan Jigneshkumar; Dr. Y. C. Zala
    The present investigation was undertaken with a view to study the poverty trend, extent of poverty and its determinants as well as to examine the income inequality among farm sector in tribal and non-tribal area of Central Gujarat. The data for the study were drawn from both primary and secondary sources. The primary data were collected from total 360 respondents including landless agricultural labour, marginal, small, medium and large farm households covering eighteen villages of six taluka from tribal district as well as non-tribal district for the year 2018-19 by applying multi-stage sampling design. Minimum consumption expenditure per person and fixed poverty line for rural Gujarat (Rs 1102.83) as per Planning Commission of India (2014) was used as poverty line to examine poverty in the study area. To study the determinants of poverty, the logit regression model was used. Lorenz curve and Gini-coefficient technique were used to examine the income inequality in tribal and non-tribal area. To rank principal coping strategies adopted by the households in the food deficit period, Garret’s ranking technique was also used.
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    TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF RICE FARMS UNDER IRRIGATED CONDITIONS OF CENTRAL GUJARAT
    (AAU, 2010) ANURADHA, NARALA; Dr. Y. C. Zala