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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 Engineering × End date: 1986 ×
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    TO STUDY DIFFERENT METHODS OF POST-HARVEST OPERATIONS OF BAJRI CROP WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO POWER REQUIREMENT AND COST OF OPERATIONS
    (AAU, Anand, 1962) GUJARATI, JAYANT BABULAL; Patel, S. M.
    Indian Government’s policy of self-sufficient in food production was given due weightage in the First and second five year plans. The same is continued in the Third year plan. Uptill now self-sufficiency in food crops has not been achieved to the desired extent on account of many factors.Various causes are working against this burning problem of the nation. The tendency of the farmers for having more area under cash crops seems to be the root cause. The net income per acre from cash crop is more than hat of food crops.
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    DESIGN OF A HYDRAULIC DYNAMOMETER AND STUDY OF SPEED-DRAFT RELATIONSHIP OF A PARTICULAR PAIR OF KANKREJ BULLOCKS
    (AAU, Anand, 1961) Thacker, Lakhmsi G.; Patel, S. M.
    In the modern scientific world, research procedure based on scientific principles and experimentation is preferred to trial and error method, Research procedure consists of analysing, planning and conducting an inquiry. Testing is one of the major aspects of farm machinery research and drawbar dynamometer is a basic necessity for such tests of tillage machinery. Records indicate that the spring dynamometer was employed for measuring the pull requirement of farm implements in the middle of 19th century. In India, work on force analysis and power requirements of tillage tools is of very recent origin.
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    STUDIES ON THOR LATEX EXTRACTION AND DRYING
    (AAU, Anand, 1986) PATEL, K. V.; Siripurapu, S. C. B.
    In the present investigations extraction and drying of Thor latex were studied. Various parameters related to plant and cut like cut location, cut spacing, depth of cut, spacing of cut, cut interval, latex collection time, seasonal latex yield were studied to optimize operating parameters of latex collection. Horizontal type of cut with 5 mm depth on the main stem at a collection interval of one week gave satisfactory results. 25 mm width of cut was found to be acceptable. For optimum latex yield, out spacing of 150 mm is recommended. A collection interval of 15 seconds is recommended so as to recover around 90 percent of latex and also to harvest as many plants as possible. The latex yield per out is around 1 ml. The hammer shaped outting tool was modified to give proper cut without much exertion to the worker. A two vessel collection system was designed. The instant latex collection vessel is of 250 ml capacity and of cuboid shape with handle. A commonly used galvanized iron bucket with a lid was selected as a storage vessel. The overall performance of improved latex collection system was found to be superior over traditional method.