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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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    A STUDY ON ADOPTION OF ROSE CULTIVATION BY FARMERS IN ANAND DISTRICT
    (Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2009) MACWANA MANISHABEN MOTIBHAI; Dr. C. P. Desai
    According to Richardson et al. (1977), “Farmers, like other people, are confronted with situations requiring for choice. Many choices are made more or less habitually or randomly without much consideration of alternatives. However, some decisions are seen as more important which require careful evaluations. Farmers must decide what techniques of production to use and how to allocate their resources of land, labour and capital among the alternative open to them. They must decide about marketing. They must decide not only what to produce, but how to sell it”. For taking sound decisions, farmers search for the information and they use different sources.