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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 KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF SOIL HEALTH CARD BY PADDY GROWERS(DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2018) Gamit Nirajkumar H.; Dr. N. V. Soninting to post harvesting operation. We can increase the production by proper use of fertilizer because chemical fertilizer is an indispensable factor in modern agriculture, an excessive use of the same not only affects soil and plant health but also the economic health of farmer. To avoid deterioration of soil in long run and visualizing the importance of balance nutrient in crop production, the government of Gujarat commenced soil health card programme.ThesisItem Open Access BENEFITS OF ICT AS PERCEIVED BY EXTENSION PERSONNEL WORKING AT KVKs OF GUJARAT(DEPARTMENT OF EXTENSION EDUCATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2018) Savalia Anand M.; Dr. Arun PatelAgricultural extension is an educational service which brings information and new technologies for farming communities to improve their production, income and standard of living. Effective communication of farm information to the farmers is a key to socio-economic transformation of nation, particularly when the bulk of population is depending on farming. In India, where farmers live in less accessible and isolated villages, both on plains and hills, effective communication is more complicated. In this context, mass media can hopefully, be expected to cater the information need to a great extent to a large number of people. Among the different mass media such as radio, television, films and magazines, radio occupies a special status because of easy availability, low cost, wide adaptability as well as ability to reach a large section of population living in isolated communities.ThesisItem Open Access ISSUES EXPERIENCED BY THE LANDHOLDER FARMERS FOR AVOIDING FARMING AS A MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD(DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION & COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2018) Rupapara Krunal K.; Dr. Narendrasinh B. ChauhanA few years ago, agriculture was preferred as the best occupational choice, business as second choice and service or job was selected as the lowest choice by rural people as livelihood occupation. Nowadays the situation is totally reversed and rural landholders have started preferring to migrate towards urban areas for service or job as the best livelihood choice, business as second and farming as the lowest choice. Millions of rural agricultural landholder people have left their traditional occupation agriculture in India. India has been losing almost 2035 practicing farmers every single day for last few years.ThesisItem Open Access GROUP DYNAMICS OF FARMERS INTEREST GROUPS UNDER ATMA IN AHMEDABAD DISTRICT OF GUJARAT STATE(DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND, 2018) Darji Ayusheeben Rajeshkumar; Dr. J. K. PatelLooking to the importance of group led extension in recent era, there are wide scopes for the extension functionaries to adopt group approach for effective, efficient and time bound extension services. Farmer Interest Groups (FIGs) are the key factor in transfer of agricultural technology even though their sustainability is a major concern for extension bodies. In spite of the challenges that each group faced during the development phase, these groups shared factors that contributed to success. On the other hand, there might be certain problems in using these groups in extension services. The role of extension officers in supporting farmers is to set up and run their interest groups. Therefore there is a need to analyze the situation and factors responsible for effectiveness of group dynamics of FIGs working under ATMA. Hence, greater emphasis should be laid on educating the extension functionaries working under ATMA about various aspects of group dynamics and factors associated with effective group formation. One way by which extension scientists can contribute to this task, is to find out better ways and means of promoting effective and efficient group of farmers by finding out the factors responsible of group dynamics effectiveness of FIGs under ATMA. Thus, one can find the unfavorable factors in the environment of extension pose for additional pressure. For generating information on this dimension, the present research study on “Group Dynamics of Farmers Interest Groups under ATMA in Ahmedabad District of Gujarat State” was undertaken with following specific objectives.ThesisItem Open Access KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION OF RECOMMENDED GREEN GRAM PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY(2018) Paradva Vaibhavkumar Babubhai; Dr. Mukesh R. PatelAgriculture 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.ThesisItem Open Access IMPACT OF KRISHI VIGYAN KENDRA, VEJALPUR OF PANCHMAHALS DISTRICT OF GUJARAT STATE(DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2018) Chaudhary Pravinbhai J.; Dr. Mahesh R. PatelAgriculture is the most pivotal sector of Indian economy in the current phase of development. Therefore, the transformation of traditional agriculture to modern agriculture is a challenge to fulfill the requirements of over increasing population. Agriculture plays a vital role in India’s economy. About 54.6 per cent of the population is engaged in agriculture and allied activities (census 2011) and it contributes 17.4 per cent to the country’s Gross Value Added for the year 2016-17.ThesisItem Open Access SMARTPHONE USE COMPETENCE OF FARMERS(DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2017) Chaudhari Ravikumar N.; Dr. D. D. PatelTelecommunication in agriculture is an emerging field focusing on the empowerment of agricultural and rural development in India. It involves application of innovative ways to use Information and Communication Technologies in the rural domain. The advancements in telecommunication can be utilized more smartly using smart mobile phone technology for providing accurate, timely, relevant information and services by user friendly ways to the farmers, thereby facilitating an environment for more remunerative agriculture. Mobile technology has quickly become the world’s most common way of transmitting information in forms of voice, video, animated messages, photographs, written messages, maps, various data and services in the developing world. The mobile technology provides the most affordable ways for millions of people to access information, markets, financial and governance systems previously unavailable to them. As a result, there has been a global explosion in the number of mobile applications, facilitated by the rapid evolution of mobile networks and by the increasing functions and falling prices of mobile handsets. The mobile technology has potentiality to interlink agricultural researchers, agricultural extension educationists and farmers.ThesisItem Open Access SOCIO-TECHNO-ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF IMPROVED SUGARCANE CULTIVATION IN VADODARA DISTRICT OF GUJARAT(DEPARTMENT OF EXTENSION EDUCATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND, 2017) Prajapati Jignesh; Dr. C. P. DesaiThe development of new technology is not a major problem now-a-days in most of developing countries, but the main problems which exist today are diffusion and adoption of these technologies by the farmers. The area under sugarcane crop is being increased day by day as the scientists of SAUs have been continuously investigating new high yielding varieties of sugarcane crop as well as new package of practices and technologies to produce better yield of this crop. These scientific packages of practices are recommended to achieve higher production in sugarcane crop. The desired target of production can only be achieved when majority of farmers are motivated to adopt the recommended sugarcane cultivation practices.ThesisItem Open Access VOCATIONAL TRAINING NEEDS AS PERCEIVED BY THE FARMERS’ SONS IN ANAND TALUKA OF GUJARAT(DEPARTMENT OF EXTENSION EDUCATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2017) Thakur Nidhi; Dr. N. B. ChauhanIndia is one of the few countries in the world where the working age population will be far in excess of those dependent on them and as per the World Bank, this will continue for at least three decades till 2040. This has increasingly been recognized as a potential source of significant strength for the national economy, provided we are able to equip and continuously upgrade the skills of the population in the working age group.