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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 Education × End date: 2009 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Constraints in Transfer of Sugarcane Technology
    (AAU, Anand, 1979) Joshi, Ramesh G.; WAGHMARE, S. K.
    Objectives of the study: 1. To study the personal and socio-economic characteristics of the sugarcane growers. 2. To study the motivational factors for undertaking sugarcane cultivation. 3. To find out the accessibility of various sources and media of information as felt by the sugarcane growers and its relationship with personal and socio-economic characteristics. 4. To ascertain the level of knowledge of the sugarcane growers about recommended sugarcane technology. 5. To ascertain the extent of adoption of recommended technology in sugarcane cultivation and its relationship with personal, socio-economic characteristics of the sugarcane growers. 6. To ascertain the technological gap in sugarcane cultivation and its relationship with personal, socio-economic and psychological characteristics of the sugarcane growers. 7. To find out the constraints in transformation of sugarcane technology and suggestions to over come them as suggested by the sugarcane growers.
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    UTILIZATION OF CANAL IRRIGATION WATER IN JAYAKWADI COMMAND AREA OF MAHARASHTRA STATE
    (AAU, Anand, 1979) SIRSAT, D. N.; PATEL, K. N.
    Objectives of the study 1. To study the socio-economic characteristics of the farmers. 2. To study the sources of information and media used by the farmers with reference to utilization of canal irrigation water. 3. To ascertain the knowledge of respondents regarding adoption of recommended agricultural practices including recommended methods of irrigation for selected crops. 4. To study the extent of adoption of recommended agricultural practices in jowar, wheat, cotton and sugarcane crops.
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    A STUDY OF THE CHARACTERISTICS RELATED WITH THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FARM OPINION LEADERS IN TWO VILLAGES OF ANAND TALUKA OF KAIRA DISTRICT, GUJARAT STATE
    (AAU, Anand, 1968) Shah, Chandrakant Natverlal; Patel, A. U.
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    STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE AND ROLE PERFORMANCE OF TRIBAL FARM WOMEN IN MIXED FARMING IN VADODARA DISTRICT OF GUJARAT STATE
    (AAU, Anand, 1997) SHAH, USHA B; PATEL, N. R.
    Agricultural policy is still dominated by the false view that, 'farmers are men', women are only housewives. Women have remained invisible as farmer inspite of their contribution to farming. Whether, it is shifting cultivation subsistence in low input agriculture, or high external input agriculture. Tribal farm women work longer and harder than women of the other rural areas. Cultural anthropological literature also suggest that agriculture is the invention of women. Though women played different roles in their home activities as wives, as mothers and as home makers, they also played a pivotal role in agriculture and their livestock management. Farm women in tribal areas performing multiple activities which includes subsistence farming, raising livestock, growing vegetables, collection and selling of forest material and other activities. Thus, women in tribal areas perform different activities to generate work and income for their family. It is therefore, worth while, to investigate the extent of knowledge and role performance by tribal farm women in mixed farming, that is crop production with animal husbandry. Keeping these points in view, the study entitled "Study on knowledge and role performance of tribal farm women in mixed farming in Vadodara district of Gujarat state" was planned with following specific objectives. (1) To study personal, socio-economic and psychological characteristics of the tribal women. (2) To study the knowledge level of tribal farm women about recommended mixed farming technology. (3) To study the extent of participation in decision making by tribal farm women in mixed farming. (4) To know the extent of role performed by tribal farm women in mixed farming. (5) To determine the areas of training needs of tribal farm women in mixed farming. (6) To ascertain the relationship between some selected characteristics of the tribal farm women and dependent variable. (7) To identify the problems faced by tribal farm women in performing their roles In mixed farming. METHODOLOGY The present study was undertaken in Vadodara district of the Gujarat state. In the Vadodara district five taluka's having tribal concentration of about 50 per cent. Among them Chotaudepur taluka was selected purposively for the study with following consideration (1) More tribal population, (2) More total geographical area, (3) More number of villages, (4) More net cultivated area, (5) More forest area as compared to other taluka of the Vadodara district. The Chotaudepur taluka comprised of 279 villages. Among them ten villages were selected at random considering communication and other facilities. First of all list of tribal farm women was obtained from the village Panchayat of ten selected villages. From each selected villages, 15 tribal farm women who had atleast one animal were selected at randomly, thus total 150 tribal farm women were selected for the study. To measure the level of knowledge and role performed by tribal farm women in crop production and animal husbandry practices, the developed scale were used for the study. Data were collected with the help of structured schedule by personal interview method. The statistical tools like percentage, mean, standard deviation, coefficient of correlation and path coefficient analysis were used to get proper answer for the specific objectives of the study. MAJOR FINDINGS (1) Nearly half (53.33 percent) of the respondents were engaged in mixed farming were from middle age group. (2) More than 2/5th of the tribal farm women having no formal education. (3) Majority of the tribal farm women belonged to joint family, having about five family members. (4) Majority of tribal farm women had no membership in any social organisation. (5) More than half (54.67 percent) of the tribal farm families were observed with migration habit. (6) Majority of the tribal farm women possessed small size of land holding. (7) More than half (62.67 percent) of the tribal farm women had annual family income inbetween Rs. 4,001/- to Rs. 6,000/-. (8) More than half (54.67 percent) of the tribal farm women possessed above five animals. (9) Majority of the tribal farm women were dependent on mixed farming and labour work. (10) Majority of tribal farm women had medium level of socio-economic status. (11) More than half (58.67 percent)of the tribal farm women had favourable attitude towards mixed farming. (12) Majority of the tribal farm women had medium level of participation in decision making process, regarding mixed farming. (13) More than half (52.67 percent) of the tribal farm women had medium level of knowledge regarding mixed farming. (14) Majority of the tribal farm women had performed medium level of role in mixed farming. (15) Majority of the tribal farm women participated in taking final decision regarding grain storage, time of crop harvesting, time and method of weeding, labourer requirement, work distribution to labourer and selection of labourer, whereas in case of animal husbandry activities concerned, quantity of fodder, size of herd, type of animal fodder, selling of milk and milk products and purchase and selling of animals. (16) Majority of the tribal farm women performed major role in agriculture were harvesting, hand weeding, cleaning and storage of grains, preparation of farm yard mannures, nursery raising respectively. Whereas, in case of animal husbandry activities, major role were performed in milking, cutting and carrying green fodder from farm, taking animals for grazing and cutting of dry fodder for animals. (17) There was significant correlation between knowledge and respondents characteristics like annual family income, occupation, socio-economic status 'and role performed in mixed farming, while age was found to be negatively significant. (18) Relationship between the tribal farm women's characteristics like social participation, annual family income, occupation, socio-economic status and role performed was found to be significant. (19) Path analysis of significant characteristics with level of knowledge revealed that occupation, socio-economic status and role performed by tribal farm women exerted the highest direct effect on their level of knowledge in mixed farming. (20) Path analysis of the significant characteristics CAilth . the maximum direct and positive effect on knowledge, social participation and family annual income with role performed by tribal farm women in mixed faring. (21) Majority of the tribal farm women expressed their areas of training needs in agriculture were storage of food grains, kitchen gardening, use of bio-gas technology, method and time of fertilizer application and identification of common pest and disease and its control. Whereas in the field of animal husbandry were management of milch animals planning of animal feed, storage and cultivation of fodder crop, importance of water for animals and preparation of good curd and ghee. (22) Majority of the tribal farm women faced major problems in agriculture were illiteracy, unavailability of timely inputs lack of appropriate technology for their own area, lack of financial resources, lack of even land, small size of land, lack of marketing facilities, whereas in the field of animal husbandry related problems were lack of pasture land, lack of active milk co-operative society at village level, high cost of crossed breeds animal and lack of Veterinary Health Centre at village level
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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.