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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 Statistics and Informatics × End date: 1988 × Start date: 1986 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    EFFECT OF METHODS OF HARVESTING, GRADING AND CHEMICAL TREATMENTS ON THE ESTIMATES OF POST HARVEST LOSSES IN RAJAPURI MANGO (Mangifera indica L.)
    (AAU, Anand, 1987) Purohit, L. P.; Vaishnav, M. R.
    An experiment was planned on Rajapuri mango incorporating two method of harvesting, the grading treatment and calcium carbide post harvest treatment to estimate the post harvest losses during ripening at Horticulture Farm of B. A. College of Agriculture, Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand Campus, Anand during the year 1985.
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    ON THE ESTIMATION OF GENE EFFECTS IN LAL CHOPADIU TOBACCO
    (AAU, Anand, 1987) Patel, R. R.; Patel, N. M.
    Tobacco, the heighest revenue earning commodity among agricultural commodities, occupies hardly 0.3 per cent of the total cropped area of the country. Gujarat ranks second in respect of tobacco hectarage but from productivity view point it is at the first position in India. Chewing tobacco (tabacum type) is grown in about 10,000 ha of Petlad, Borsad and Khambhat talukas of Kheda district of Gujarat State. Practically no information on quantitative genetic aspect is available for chopadiu tobacco grown in Gujarat. Therefore, present investigation was undertaken during the years 1983-84 and 1984-85 at Tobacco Research Station, Dharmaj to (i) study the nature of gene effects govering yield and other agro-morphological characters, (ii) to study the influence of environment on gene effects governing yield and (iii) to evaluate the selected material of each cycle.
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    EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO STUDY THE EFFECT OF RAINFALL ON GROUNDNUT IN DRY FARMING AREA OF GUJARAT
    (AAU, Anand, 1986) PATEL, J. S.; Vaishnav, M. R.
    The groundnut yield averaged over N, P and K fertilizers treatment combinations under Groundnut-Bajara, Groundnut-Cotton and Groundnut-Groundnut rotations for the years 1967 to 1979 from the long term experiment conducted at Dry Farming Research Station, Targhadia (Rajkot) and the daily rainfall data for the same station were utilized for this study.
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    PREDICTION OF LEAF AREA INDEX IN COTTON HYBRID 4
    (AAU, Anand, 1987) DARJI, VIJAY B.; Patel, N. M.
    The leaf area index (LAI) is one of the important crop growth parameters influencing yield. The estimation of leaf area and there by LAI consumes lot of time and is costlier. Prediction model for LAI can help in overcoming such difficulties. Keeping this in view, the present investigation was conducted during the year 1985-86. Cotton Hybrid ^- was used for the purpose. Crop was raised as irrigated crop at the Plant Breeding Research Farm, Gujarat Agricultural University, Anand Campus, Anand to work out prediction equation for leaf area index (LAI). The leaf area and other characters were studied at nine different stages of crop growth. The results revealed that the (i) leaf area, leaf area index (LAI), leaf number, leaf weight and stem weight of Cotton Hybrid 4 increased upto 120 days of crop age and thereafter these variables showed declining trend, (ii) leaf area and LAI showed quadratic trend while number of leaves showed linear as well as quadratic trend due to the age of crop, (iii) leaf weight accounted for maximum variability of LAI (but leaf weight is a variable of destructive in nature) and (iv) prediction equation for LAI based on number of leaves and days after sowing, both being non-destructive in nature, accounted about 92 percent of the variability in LAI. The equation obtained was LAI = 0.5595 + 0.0085 NOL - 0.0098 D (R2 = 92.2 %) (Where NOL = Number of leaves and D = DAS = Days after sowing) From utility view point, this prediction model is most simple and efficient one.
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    A STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF PERIODIC FLOWERING ON THE YIELD OF GROUNDNUT ( Arachis hypogaea L. )
    (AAU, Anand, 1987) VARMOLA, S. L.; Vaishnav, M. R.
    Experiment was planned to study the effect of periodic flowering on the number and yield of groundnut pods to estimate the periodic conversion of flowers to pods and periodic contribution of number of pods to the final yield of groundnut pods, during summer and kharif season of 1985. The major findings were as under : 1. On an average about 162 flowers were observed per plant upto the first six weeks of flowers commencement during summer in bunch variety, whereas, there were about 93 flowers per plant for both the bunch and the Spreading varieties , during Kharif season. 2. The periodic flowers removal significantly reduced the mature and total pods per plant for both the varieties but the duration and the magnitude were different. 3. Maximum conversion of flowers to pods for the bunch variety during summer was observed during the second and the third weeks of the flowers commencement, whereas during kharif season, it was during the first two weeks for the bunch variety and the first three weeks for the spreading variety. 4. The contribution of pods developed from the flowers of the first four weeks of the commencement was about 53 per cent during summer, whereas during kharif. the pods developed from the flowers of the first four weeks of the commencement contributed to about 54 and 52 per cent of the total pods yield for the bunch and the spreading varieties respectively. With the minimum of the crop management during the first 3 to 4 weeks of flowers commencement, the Farmers can get atleast 60 to 70 per cent of the total pods yield. From the weeks of maximum conversion of flowers to pods Plant Breeders can achieve the maximum success in hybridization programme.
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    ESTIMATION OF PERIODIC PHOSPHORUS UPTAKE BY SUMMER GROUNDNUT IN RELATION TO PHOSPHORUS LEVELS
    (AAU, Anand, 1988) SHAVANI, VALLABHBHAI N.; Vaishnav, M. R.
    An experiment with five levels of phosphorus (0, 25, 50, 75 and 100 kg/ha) on summer groundnut crop in latin square design was conducted during summer 1987 at Agronomy Farm, B.A, College of Agriculture, Anand with a view to estimate and study the behaviour of periodic phosphorus uptake in relation to phosphorus levels. The study revealed that summer groundnut crop did not respond to phosphorus to the phosphorus application for pod yield but responded to cumulative as well as periodic dry matter production, in case of phosphorus content appreciable increase was observed upto the dose of 50 kg/ha of P2O5. Summer groundnut considered about 20 kg P2O5 per hectare with the pod yield level 828 and dry matter 4792 kg/ha. The maximum uptake was observed during the period after 90 days of sowing. The correlations among phosphorus uptake, phosphorus content, dry matter production at different stages and pod yield revealed that phosphorus uptake in the initial stage and during 60 to 90 days period after sowing has appreciable influence on pod yield and dry matter production of summer groundnut. No depletion of P2O5 was observed In lower (22.5 to 45 cm) and upper (0 to 22.5 cm) depth over the growing period of the crop which Indicated that there is natural release of available phosphorus In the soil from the reserve pool. The comparison of available phosphorus at lower and upper depth revealed no evidence to suggest loss of P2O5 due to leashing. Significant and positive correlation between i the available phosphorus at upper depth with pod yield during 90 to 125 days indicated the favourable effect of available phosphorus on the pod yield, increase in phosphorus uptake with Increasing available phosphorus at upper depth was indicated by significant and positive association between them.