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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 Meteorology × Author: NIHALANI, ASHOK L. × End date: 1989 ×
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    ASSESSMENT OF YIELD OF PIGEONPEA (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) IN RELATION TO HEAT UNITS
    (AAU, Anand, 1989) NIHALANI, ASHOK L.; Mehta, A. N.
    A study was undertaken to re-examine experiments already carried out in kharif seasons at three different research stations of Gujarat Agricultural University viz., Navsari, Bharuch and Vadodara with a broad based objective of ascertaining meteorologically the appropriate sowing date for the region and also to predict crop yield in relation to meteorological parameters. The study revealed that the total growing days (GDD) and energy degree units (EDU) were found to decrease as the sowing date was delayed. Moreover the crop yields were also found to decrease as the GDD and EDU decreased with the delay of the sowing date at all the locations. This type of trend was also found in the phases viz., secondary branches to flower bud initiation (III), flower bud initiation to 50 per cent flowering (IV) and 50 per cent flowering to 50 per cent podding (V), respectively. The significant correlations between heat indices and crop yield were obtained in the phases III, IV and V which cover the entire flowering period of the crop for Navsari and Vadodara. No significance was found for Bharuch location.