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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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  • ThesisItemOpen Access
    STUDIES ON SOME ASPECTS OF PHYTO ETEOROLOGY OF WHEAT (Triticum aestivum L.) AT ANAND
    (AAU, Anand, 1985) SAVANI, M. B.; MISTRY, P. D.
    The changeability of meterological factors in time and space is diverse. The most important weather variables which have to be considered as limiting plant growth and development are temperature, moisture and light (or solar radiation). The distribution of these meteorological parameters during the growing season of the crop shows great variation in the different locations of the same region and consequently, a great variability in the crop production.
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    STUDIES ON THE ASSESSMENT OF THE PERFORMANCE OF SOME CROP-WEATHER MODELS UNDER ANAND CONDITIONS
    (AAU, Anand, 1985) SHEKH, A. M.; MISTRY, P. D.
    Crop yield forecasting is quite important to monitor the economy of any country which is predominantly agricultural. Crop-weather Hodles are formulations which mathematically relate the crop yield with the agrometeorological parameters like evapotranspiration or crop transpiration (Tc). Very little information is available on the performance of available crop-weather models under the Indian conditions. With this background, a study was planned and conducted to test and validate the performance of different crop-weather models, during the rabi season of the years 1981-82, 1982-83 and 1983-84 with Sonalika (HDM-1553) variety of wheat. The evapotranspiration (ET) losses were measured by gravimetric soil moisture measurements which were termed actual evapotranspiration (AET) and were also estimated by Priestley-Taylor (1972) approach for obtaining potential evapotranspiration (PET).
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    ENERGY BALANCE OVER A WHEAT FIELD WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EVAPOTRANSPIRATION AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS
    (AAU, Anand, 1980) Mehta, Arvind N; MISTRY, P. D.
    Evapotranspiration and photosynthesis are among the most vital plant responses to energy that govern the productivity of crops in the field. The energy required for both the processes being derived from the net available energy over the field, a study of energy balance over a crop field is important in the understanding of the crop responses to weather. A field study to measure the energy balance components over the field of wheat, variety Sonalika (H.D.M. 1553) was carried out to estimate the energy utilization in evapotranspiration and photosynthesis and also to study other pertinent aspects of water use by crops.