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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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    DEVELOPMENT OF SCALE TO MEASURE THE ATTITUDE OF FARMERS TOWARDS PM-KISAN SCHEME
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2021) Joshi Misari Hemantbhai; Dr. J. B. Patel
    Agriculture, with its allied sectors, is the largest source of livelihood in India. About 70 per cent of the rural households in India depend primarily on Agriculture for their livelihood and 86 per cent of the Indian farmers are small and marginal. Adoption of new technologies is one of the promising approaches for increasing and sustaining the income of farm families but lack of information and lack of credit are the prominent constraints in technology adoption. Hence, government has taken many measures since independence till date to strengthen the agriculture sector and to sustain the income of the farmers. The government has established a number of initiatives in the agriculture sector to help farmers by increase their production and improve their financial status. In spite of all these attempts, there is a need for holistic approach to tackle the crisis of farm sector. This condition, has finally led to introduction of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, or (PM-KISAN) in December 2018 by the Government of India.
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    DD KISAN CHANNEL VIEWING BEHAVIOUR OF FARMERS
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2021) Parmar Krishnaben J.; Dr. Hemlata Saini
    Television has educational and inspiring characteristic; it has been using for the development of farmers and agriculture in India. The Krishi Darshan program on Agriculture and Rural Development (ARD) was started in 1967. Later on, many other private channels started broadcasting programmes for agriculture in India. However, due to limited time fixed to the programmes, it was difficult for farmers to get farm information as and when needed. To overcome this issue, 24-hour channel known as DD Kisan was launched on 26th May 2015 by Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra bhai Modi. This channel owned by the Door Darshan with the slogan “Changing Indian Farmers”. This channel is devoted to agriculture and allied sectors to broadcast real time inputs to farmers on new farming techniques. The channel gives information on various ways of agricultural practices being followed world over and the research & development in the agricultural sector across the world. The DD Kisan channel telecast updated information on agriculture and related subjects.