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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 × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2010 ×
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    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. Patel
    In 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.
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    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. Patel
    Agriculture 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.
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    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. Chauhan
    The 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.
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    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. Patel
    Agriculture 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.
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    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. Patel
    Human 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.
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    TIME-LAG IN ADOPTION OF DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEM
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2019) Raghuvansh Shakti K.; Dr. J. K. Patel
    Agriculture is the base of Indian economy and it plays a pivotal role in respect of socio economic development particularly in rural masses. However, in India, agriculture production is mainly dependent on rain fed farming. The situation of Indian agriculture indicates that the farm production is conditioned by rainfall pattern and availability of irrigation water.
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    PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT AGENCY PERSONNEL IN MIDDLE GUJARAT
    (DEPARTMENT OF EXTENSION EDUCATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2018) Khadayata Kaushikkumar G.; Dr. Sunil R. Patel
    Human resources form the bedrock of the agricultural extension system. This is because they are the ones that actually do the job of information and technology dissemination. In recent years, competencies have emerged as the primary means of evaluating abilities and job skills. Competencies are a form of progress as a tool, or point of reference, which can be used to assess and evaluate worker’s progress of performance. The ATMA can be regarded responsible for all the technology dissemination activities at the district level in the state. It is necessary to investigate competencies of extension personnel and how that leads to better delivery of extension services for a sustainable rural development. In this context, it would be very much essential to know the professional competence of ATMA personnel. Further, professional competence is affected by several factors, outstanding among which, are the individual characteristics. Hence, some selected socio-personal variables, psychological variables and organizational variables which may have influence on professional competence were also realized to be studied.
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    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. Soni
    nting 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.
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    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 Patel
    Agricultural 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.