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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 Extension × Author: Paradva Vaibhavkumar Babubhai × End date: 2018 × Start date: 2018 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF RECOMMENDED GREEN GRAM PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
    (2018) Paradva Vaibhavkumar Babubhai; Dr. Mukesh R. Patel
    Agriculture is the backbone of India which has shaped, culture and economic life of Indians. Soon after independence, India faced the challenges of providing food security to millions of its people. Therefore, various rural development programmes were introduced for increasing agricultural production and improving socio-economic condition of families living in villages. Besides cereals, pulses are also a wonderful gift of nature as they nourish mankind with highly nutritive food and keep the soil alive and productive. Pulses are the main source of protein particularly for vegetables. Pulses are also rich source of minerals like calcium, phosphorous, iron etc. and certain vitamins. In which green gram is one of the important pulse crop and cultivated in the India, since ancient times. It is rich in protein as it contains about 24 per cent protein which is almost three times that of cereals, 1.2 per cent fat and 62 per cent carbohydrates. It is rich in vitamin A.