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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 ROLE ASSESSMENT OF SCIENTISTS WORKING IN KVKs OF GUJARAT(DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2019) Rahul Dundesh Bellagi; Dr. H. B. PatelIn the transfer of technology to farmers in their respective areas, scientists working in KVKs play an important role. Despite the fact that they have so many technologies for farmers’ development, they cannot achieve the expected productivity and production of the target required to meet the demand of the world’s fast-growing second largest populated countries. This is because the researcher-extension agents-farmers are inappropriately linked. This is the main problem hence the scientific evaluation is carried out, i.e. “Role assessment of scientists working in KVKs of Gujarat” was carried out and the various factors affecting the scientists are understood. This study has enabled us to understand the various limitations of the system and helps to link the missing links between scientists and farmers in the transfer of technology to the farming community, and it will also help policymakers to bring desirable changes to the agricultural system in order to help the farming community.ThesisItem Open Access ROLE OF DAIRY COOPERATIVES IN EMPOWERING FARMWOMEN AS PERCEIVED BY THEIR WOMAN MEMBERS(Department of Agricultural Extension and Communication B. A. College of Agriculture Anand Agricultural University Anand, 2019) Katara Priyanka R.; Dr. Mukesh R. PatelAgriculture is the backbone of Indian economy and important occupation for most of the Indian families. Agriculture sector, a space which employs more than 50 per cent of the total workforce in India and contributes around 17-18 per cent to the country’s GDP. Animal husbandry and agriculture are the twin occupations. Since ancient time have played a significant role in improving the rural economy. Livestock rearing provides meaningful occupation both full time and subsidiary at the location itself and provides assured income and ensures better utilization of human resources. It provides employment especially self-employment to a substantial number of rural and urban populations.ThesisItem Open Access DEVELOPMENT OF SCALE TO MEASURE ATTITUDE OF FARMERS TOWARDS DD KISAN CHANNEL(DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2019) Pithiya Neetaben D.; Dr. Narendrasinh B. ChauhanThe DD Kisan is an Indian agriculture 24-hour television channel, which is owned by Doordarshan and has been in function since 26 May 2015. The channel has been dedicated to agriculture and related sectors, which disseminates real-time inputs to farmers on innovative agricultural techniques, organic farming, dairy farming, poultry, fisheries, agricultural implements, food technology, value addition in farm and dairy products, experiences of innovative farmers, water conservation and other useful information to develop farmers and rural India. Thus, DD Kisan has good and practical potential to be an excellent instrument for agricultural communication to transfer agricultural information to the farmers. To achieve desirable success in the implementation of DD Kisan to strengthen agricultural communication, there is a need to understand feeling or attitude of its users towards the potentiality of this channel.ThesisItem Open Access DEVELOPMENT OF TEST TO MEASURE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE OF BANANA GROWERS ABOUT INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT(DEPARTMENT OF EXTENSION EDUCATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2019) Meenu Maheswaran; Dr. Mahesh R. PatelAgriculture plays an important role in shaping our Indian economy. Indian agriculture is started giving prominence for horticultural crops from fourth five year plan onwards. Among horticultural crops, fruit crops are now grown for commercial and nutritional purposes all over the country. Banana is the major fruit crop grown in almost all parts of the country. The world market call for high-quality, blemish free fruit, together with increasingly strict governmental restrictions on pesticide use, has soared the relevance of banana integrated pest management research. IPM is a system approach to pest control which combines biological, cultural and other novel approaches with the judicious use of pesticides.ThesisItem Open Access A STUDY OF SELF HELP GROUP DYNAMICS OF WOMEN IN GUJARAT(DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2019) CHETHAN PATIL N. D.; Dr. J. K. PatelHuman being a social animal, live together to meet their basic biological, social and economic needs through groups. Most of the world’s activity actually takes place in groups. It is therefore essential to learn the nature and formation of groups, what conditions facilitate their growth, what factors lead them to action, how group affects their behaviour, their member’s thinking motivation and many things can be called “group behavior”. As a group matures, a number of forces operate within it - physical, moral, social and economic - and affect the behavior of its members, ultimately affecting group productivity. The sum of all these forces contributing to a group's performance was called “group dynamics” by behaviorists. Before any intervention, the concept of self-help group exists. Common bonds such as caste, community, place of origin or activity connect the members of self-help groups. Self-help group dynamics is the interplay of forces that affect group performance between group members in social situations.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.