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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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ThesisItem Open Access COMPUTER INCLINATION OF VILLAGE LEVEL WORKERS OF ANAND DISTRICT OF GUJARAT(Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2014) JITENDRA R. GELOT; Dr. Meenaben C. PatelIn recent years, computer technology has been incorporated into a wide range of consumers and industrial products. Computers are routinely used in word processing, communication, e-mail, entertainment and repetitive tasks that can be automated. Nowadays, thousands of softwares are available to perform almost any imaginable task using built-in rules and procedures. These programmes offer fast and efficient ways to conduct any work, business, teaching, research, learning and education. Starting from very small work to any other extraordinary task, the computer has become a part and parcel of the life. It is expected that VLWsThesisItem Open Access DEVELOPMENT OF SCALE TO MEASURE ATTITUDE OF THE FARMERS TOWARDS CAPSICUM CULTIVATION(AAU, Anand, 2014) RATHOD, DHIRENDRASINH M; Dr. C. P. DESAIThe adoption of new practices and thereby attainment of targeted production can be possible if the farmers have more favorable/positive attitude towards modern agriculture. The attitude of the farmers towards capsicum cultivation may differ from individual to individual because of their differences in age, education, size of land holding, social participation and socio-economic stutus. Therefore, a study on "Development of Scale to Measure Attitude of the Farmers towards Capsicum Cultivation" thought essential to be undertaken with the following specific objectives: 1. To study the profile of the farmers adopting capsicum cultivation. 2. To develop and standardize the scale to measure attitude of the farmers toward capsicum cultivation. 3. To measure attitude of the farmers towards capsicum cultivation. 4. To find out the relationship between profile of the farmers and their attitude towards capsicum cultivation. 5. To analyze constraints faced by the farmers in adoption of recommended technology of capsicum cultivation. 6. To seek suggestions from the farmers to overcome the constraints.ThesisItem Open Access TECHNOLOGICAL GAP IN ADOPTION OF CASTOR SEED PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY BY THE CASTOR GROWERS(AAU, Anand, 2014) DODIYA, VISHNUBHAI PRABHATBHAI; Dr. P. M. BhattCastor is an important industrial non-edible oilseed crop. Castor seed contains 45-47 per cent non-edible oil, which is used for domestic, medicinal and industrial purpose. Total area under Castor crop in India for the year 2011-12 is 11.50 lakh hectares. It has increased by 34% as compared to previous year (Anonymous 2011- 12). Castor is cultivated as one of the major oilseed crop, in almost all the districts of Gujarat state. Amongst this Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Kutch, Mehsana, Patan, Surendranagar, Gandhinagar, Mahisagar and Ahmedabad are the major castor producing districtsThesisItem Open Access ATTITUDE OF FARMERS TOWARDS ANUBHAV LIQUID BIO-FERTILIZER PHOSPHATE CULTURE IN ANAND TALUKA OF GUJARAT STATE(AAU, Anand, 2014) DAMOR, CHIRAGKUMAR BACHUBHAI; Dr. Arun PatelEconomic status of the people in India mostly depends upon the agricultural production. Need for more intensive and economic agricultural production led to indiscriminate use of high doses of chemicals fertilizers, pesticides etc. Relentless use of these chemicals not only alter the ecosystem but also claim death to many lives every year due to their hazardous nature. After the green revolution, increase in food production was achieved at the cost of soil health. About 60 per cent of our agricultural land currently under cultivation suffers from indiscriminate use of irrigation water and chemical fertilizers. Many agricultural chemicals like pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, hormones and antibiotics leave residues in the foodstuffs that cause cancer or genetic damage. Also depletion of ozone layer is the major threat, which causes numerous unpredictable diseases, attacks to the crop, animal and human being. Thus, a natural balance needs to be maintained for survival and wellbeing of the human beings, plant and animal kingdom. The obvious choice for that would be adaptation of liquid bio fertilizer phosphate culture without compromising agricultural production.ThesisItem Open Access ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPETENCY OF THE POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS OF ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF GUJARAT(AAU, Anand, 2014) SATARUPA MODAK; Dr. MEENA C. PATELDue to lack of entrepreneurial competency, many agricultural postgraduate students are not in position to take advantages of agricultural enterprise for their self employment. Not Abstract ii much study has been done in India to assess competency of agricultural postgraduate students towards the agribusiness. Acquainted with this fact this present study entitled “Study on entrepreneurial competency of postgraduate students of Anand Agricultural University of Gujarat” was undertaken with following objectives; 1. To study profile of the postgraduate students of Anand Agricultural University of Gujarat. 2. To find out level of entrepreneurial competency of postgraduate students of Anand Agricultural University of Gujarat. 3. To ascertain relationship between profile of the postgraduate students and their level of entrepreneurial competency. 4. To identify problems perceived by postgraduate students in acceptance of agricultural enterprise. 5. To analyse suggestions offered by postgraduate students to overcome the problems in acceptance of agricultural enterprise.ThesisItem Open Access GAP ANALYSIS OF PROFESSIONAL SOFT SKILLS AMONG GIRL STUDENTS OF AGRICULTURE FACULTY OF ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY(AAU, Anand, 2014) SAMRITIKA THAKUR; Dr. C. P. DESAIAs attitudes, expectations and employment in agriculture have changed, there is evidence that the skills and competencies of graduates do not meet the needs of today’s agricultural sector. The ‘new professional’ should, for example, be better able to work across different disciplines and in partnership with different stakeholders, understand the value chain and potential for profit and entrepreneurship at different stages. With increased attention to holistic and multi-disciplinary approaches to addressing challenges, agricultural professionals are expected to be able to integrate knowledge and practices from outside of their discipline and work within the multi-functionality of agriculture. As we move away from ‘business as usual’ we must integrate this new way of thinking into educational institutions and agricultural curricula. Realizing the significant role of agriculture graduates and postgraduate research scholars in the development of agriculture and economy of the country, a study on “GAP ANALYSIS OF PROFESSIONAL SOFT SKILLS AMONG GIRL STUDENTS OF AGRICULTURE FACULTY OF ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY” was thought to be undertaken with the following objectives: 1. To study the profile of girl students of agriculture faculty of Anand Agricultural University. 2. To find out the gap of professional soft skills among the girl students. 3. To find out the relationship between profile of the girl students and their overall professional soft skills gap. 4. To collect opinion of the girl students regarding innovative ideas of teaching for developing professional soft skills. 5. To collect views of girl students regarding innovative ideas of learning for developing professional soft skills.ThesisItem Open Access DEVELOPMENT OF SCALE TO MEASURE ATTITUDE OF THE FARMERS TOWARDS MIXED FARMING(AAU, Anand, 2014) ONIMA V. T.; Dr. N. B. ChauhanConsidering population pressure of our country during years to come, possibilities of agricultural development is planned and implemented by agricultural scientists in a different ways, recommendation of expansion and adoption of mixed farming is one of them. The understanding of existing feeling of the farmers towards relevance of mixed farming to develop agriculture as a whole and economic condition of farmers is one of the important issues to analyse in popularizing use of mixed farming for agricultural development. For this, to collect reliable information on the attitude of the farmers towards mixed farming there was a need of systematically developed reliable attitude scale. Realizing this, researcher has developed a scale to measure attitude of the farmers towards mixed farming with following other objectives. 5.2 Objectives of the study 1. To develop a scale to measure attitude of the farmers towards mixed farming. 2. To study the profile of the mixed faming adopter farmers. 3. To measure the attitude of the farmers towards mixed farming. 4. To ascertain relationship between profile of the farmers and their attitude towards mixed farming. 5. To identify constraints faced by the farmers in the adoption of the mixed farming.ThesisItem Open Access ATTITUDE OF FARMERS TOWARDS ROSE CULTIVATION(AAU, Anand, 2014) PARMAR KARANSINH MANGALSINH; Dr. Sunil R. PatelGrowing of flowers and gardening have been practiced in India for many centuries. Use of flowers which has been largely limited to offering in temple is becoming an integral part of social, cultural and religious activities. Among different flowers, rose has a unique place and however, growing flowers on commercial base is a recent trade, rose growing has become one of the most profitable agro-based industries. Today, the cultivation of rose is recognized as a lucrative profession with potential of higher returns per unit area than the most of field and even some horticulture crops. However, for realization of potential of this crop, farmers should adopt scientific rose cultivation, for which it is of prime importance that they should first inculcate positive attitude towards rose cultivation. This fact led the researcher to make investigation in the direction of developing the scale and measuring the attitude of farmers towards rose cultivation. Further, rose cultivators might be facing many constraints because of which they could not exploit fully the potential of this crop. This also necessitates that the constraints faced by farmers in adopting rose cultivation should also be studied.ThesisItem Open Access DETERMINANTS OF KNOWLEDGE OF COTTON GROWERS ABOUT INTEGRATED WEED MANAGEMENT PRACTICES(AAU, Anand, 2014) SIPAI SALMANKHAN ABDULKHAN; Dr. J. K. PatelThe convenience of using integrated weed management depends on knowledge, attitudes skill and other situational factors of the farmer. Since, change in knowledge and attitude preceded adoption of an innovation and hence it is essential to analyze the situation as well as to find out the way and means for enhancing rate of adoption with special reference to integrated weed management among the group of farmers by focusing attention of scientist’s and extension functionaries to plan suitable strategies with judicious use of integrated weed management practices for the substantiality of agriculture in the future. Keeping this view in mind, the present study entitled "Determinants of Knowledge of Cotton Growers about Integrated Weed Management Practices” with following objectives. 1. To study the profile of cotton growers. 2. To explore the relative credibility of information sources as accorded by the cotton growers. 3. To study the knowledge of cotton growers regarding integrated weed management practices. 4. To find out relationship between profile of cotton growers and their knowledge about integrated weed management practices. 5. To find out the constraints faced by cotton growers in adoption of integrated weed management practices. 6. To seek suggestions from cotton growers to overcome such constraints.