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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 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. PatelAgriculture, 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.ThesisItem Open Access 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 SainiTelevision 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.ThesisItem Open Access ANALYSIS OF LIVELIHOOD SECURITY OF TRIBAL FARMERS IN CHHOTA UDEPUR DISTRICT(DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2019) Patel Hetalbahen M.; Dr. Sunil R. PatelLivelihoods are the sum of ways in which people make a living. The livelihood security embodies three fundamental attributes viz., the possession of human capabilities, access to other tangible and intangible assets and the existence of economic activities. Livelihood security also comprises adequate access to food, clean water, health facilities, educational opportunities, housing, time for community participation and social integration. Livelihoods can be made up of a range of on-farm and off-farm activities that together provide a variety of procurement strategies for food and cash.ThesisItem Open Access AWARENESS OF MEMBERS OF FARMERS’ INTEREST GROUP ABOUT SIGNIFICANCE OF AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (ATMA)(DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2019) Ghetiya Nisha; Dr. J. B. PatelIn many developing countries including India, agricultural extension programme is transforming and looking forward for a participatory approach that act in response to the multifarious and site-specific needs of the farmers. ATMA is regarded as the most effective extension approach. It is community- based practically oriented field programme, which provide opportunity to the farmers to learn, test and adapt practises through practical and hands-on method of discovery learning. ATMA work on group approach for that they build FIGs which gives emphasize on observation, discussion, analysis and collective decision making. The approach aims to build self-confidence, participation and interaction of member farmer.ThesisItem Open Access A STUDY ON FACTORS AFFECTING ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE CATTLE OWNERS IN ANAND DISTRICT(DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2019) Bhojani Savan V.; Dr. A. R. MakwanDairy farming is the most important component of Indian agriculture and is considered a ‘treasure' of the Indian economy, particularly for the rural systems. It provides nutrition, drafts animal power, organic manure, supplementary employment and a daily basis cash income. Thus, entrepreneurial development is one of the ways to make rural people more competent in dairying. But there are some factors which might be affect the entrepreneurship behaviour of the cattle owners. So, the present study was undertaken by considering some factors which may affect the entrepreneurial behaviour of cattle owners in Anand district of Gujarat state and entitled on “A Study on Factors Affecting Entrepreneurial Behaviour of the Cattle Owners in Anand District”. The study has unable to find the factors which might be affect entrepreneurial behaviour of the cattle owners, their level of entrepreneurial behaviour, constraints faced by cattle owners and suggestions offered by cattle owners. It will also serve as a guideline for the planners and developmental agencies in planning and implementing programmes related to entrepreneurial activities.ThesisItem Open Access 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 levelThesisItem Open Access ATTITUDE OF AGRICULTURAL PERSONNEL TOWARDS e- AGRICULTURAL PORTAL(AAU, Anand, 2017) PATEL PRATIK HARSHADBHAI; Dr. Mahesh R. PatelAgriculture plays an essential role in the process of economic development of developing countries like India. Besides providing food to nation, agriculture contributes to market of industrial goods and earns foreign exchange. Agricultural development is an integral part of overall economic development. In spite of this, it is also an important feature of agriculture that is to be noted that growth of other sectors and overall economy depends on the performance of agriculture to a considerable extent. ICT has become a global tool often used by individuals, organizations, governments and inter-governmental organizations for personnel or official activities. Its application cut across all fields of human endeavor like medicine, commerce, engineering, architecture, education, library services and agriculture. The application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in agriculture is increasingly important. E ……………………………………………………………………. .Ab s t r a c t iii Agriculture is an emerging field focusing on the enhancement of agricultural and rural development through improved information and communication processes. In India, there are a number of web portals for smart egovernance but in agriculture sector, this concept is yet to remain implemented. Different sites or web portals are there but these all are in different commands and different objectives which not able to full fill need of farmers at one address. There is e-portal for agriculture which includes agriculture related latest information, latest technology, communication about agronomical practices, information about input availability, weather, market, processing etc. Keeping in view the above said facts, this study on “Attitude of Agricultural Personnel Towards e- Agricultural Portal”was under taken with followingspecific objectives: 1. To study the profile of agricultural personnel. 2. To measure the attitude of agricultural personnel towards e-agricultural portal. 3. To ascertain relationship between profile of agricultural personnel and their attitude towards e-agricultural portal. 4. To identify constraints faced by agricultural personnel regarding e-agricultural portal. 5. To seek the suggestions to overcome the constraints faced by agricultural personnel regarding e-agricultural portal. ……………………………………………………………………. .Ab s t r a c t iv Methodology The present study was undertaken in Gandhinagar district of Gujarat state. In the Gandhinagardistrict, personnel from departments of Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Husbandry, Government of Gujarat working at Krushibhavan, Gandhinagar were selected purposively. From that100 agricultural personnel were selected by using simple random sampling method for the study. The dependent variable undertaken in this study was attitude of agricultural personnel towards e-agricultural portal. The independent variables were; age, education and experience in job as personnel variables; social participationssocial variable; occupation and annual income as economical variables; mass media exposure andcomputer inclination as communicational variables and economic motivation, scientific orientation and risk orientation as psychological variables. To study the Attitude of Agricultural Personnel towards e-Agricultural Portal, Attitude scale developed by Dr. M.C. Patelwas used with some modifications. Independent variables were measured by using suitable scales and procedures adopted by various researchers with suitable modifications. An interview schedule was developed in accordance with the objectives of the study. The data of this study were collected through personnel interview. The collected data were classified, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted in order to make the findings meaningful. The statistical measures such ……………………………………………………………………. . asfrequency and percentage, arithmetic mean, of correlation and arbitrary Major findings 1. Great majority (92.00 per cent) of the belonged to the young to middle age group. 2. More than forth personnel had education from graduation to master degree. 3. Slightly more than four personnel had low to medium experience. 4. Great majority (97.00 per cent) no social participation. 5. Slightly more than four personnel were 6. More than three personnel had more than 7. Slightly more personnel had high to very high level of mass media exposure. 8. More than three had medium to high level of computer inclination. 9. Slightly more than three agricultural economic motivation. v frequency Karl Pearson method were used in the study. agricultural forth-fifth (86.00 per cent) of the a four-fifth (83.00 per cent) of the a of the agricultural lightly four-fifth (82.00 per cent) of the a depending on service and agriculture + service. three-fifth (65.00 per cent) of the a 5 lakh of annual income. than four-fifth (82.00 per cent) of the a three-forth (77.00 per cent) of agricultural three-forth (79.00 per cent) of the gricultural personnel were found with low to medium level of Ab s t r a c t coefficient gricultural personnel agricultural agricultural gricultural personnel had agricultural agricultural agricultural personnel ……………………………………………………………………. .Ab s t r a c t vi 10. Slightly more than four-fifth (83.00 per cent) of the agricultural personnel had medium to high level of scientific orientation. 11. Great majority (97.00 per cent) of the agricultural personnel had high level of risk orientation. 12. Great majority (97.00 per cent) of the agricultural personnel had favorable to highly favorable attitude towards e-agricultural portal. 13. The independent variable viz. computer inclination of agricultural personnel had positive and highly significant correlation with their attitude towards e-agricultural portals. Whereas variables like education, mass media exposure and scientific orientation of agricultural personnel had positive and significant relationship with their attitudes towards eagricultural portals. The variable like age of agricultural personnel shows negative and significant relationship with their attitude toward e-agricultural portal. Whereas variables like experience, social participation, occupation and annual income of agricultural personnel had negative and non-significant relationship with their attitude towards e-agricultural portal. 14. The major constraints faced by the agricultural personnel regarding e-agricultural portal in descending order of rank were; lack of up-to-date facilities in own office/department, uneven speed of internet, lack of user friendly e-agricultural portal, lack of skill enhancement & training to agricultural personal, lack of ……………………………………………………………………. .Ab s t r a c t vii time, lack of skills using all the features of internet, lack of skills in efficient maintenance of online information and lack of dynamic facilities available on internet on the server of government of Gujarat. 15. The major suggestions to overcome constraints faced by the agricultural personnelregarding e-agriculture portal in descending order of rank were; each agricultural personnel should be provided an advanced computer set with internet facilities, the e-agricultural portal should be modified and made it user friendly, refresher training on efficient e-agricultural portal for agricultural personnel should be organized, work should be rational and make system easy to ensure time availability for accessing internet and compulsory provision of training should be there to create computer literacy at advance level.ThesisItem Open Access DEVELOPMENT OF SCALE TO MEASURE ATTITUDE OF THE FARMERS TOWARDS NEEM BASED BIOPESTICIDES(Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2016) K.Kishan; Dr. N. B. ChauhanNeem is acknowledged today as a natural product, which has much to offer in solving global agricultural, environmental and public health problems. The natural properties of neem do not have any toxic reactions, so they are helpful in plant protection and ecofriendly management of sustainable agricultural development. Products derived from neem tree act as potent insect growth regulators. Neem products make insecticide, pesticide, fumigant, fertilizer, manures, compost, urea coating agent and soil conditioner. Due to swelling public concerns about the harmful effects of toxic synthetic pesticides, neem based products have virtually taken the centre stage as an imminent alternative. Neem oil, neem fruit and its different by-products make efficient biopesticides, fungicides and organic manures. Recently, agricultural scientists have realized the potential of neem and there has been a growing interest amongst them towards neem as an organic alternativeThesisItem Open Access A STUDY ON ADOPTION OF ROSE CULTIVATION BY FARMERS IN ANAND DISTRICT(Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2009) MACWANA MANISHABEN MOTIBHAI; Dr. C. P. DesaiAccording 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.
