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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: Animal Nutrition × End date: 2020 × Start date: 2019 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.V.Sc. ×
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    EFFECT OF SOLID STATE FERMENTATION (SSF) BIOMASS ON GROWTH PERFORMANCE OF CROSSBRED HEIFERS
    (ANIMAL NUTRITION RESEARCH STATION COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND, 2020) FENIL N. CHAUDHARI; Dr. M. A. SHEKH
    Solid state fermentation (SSF) as a microbial method taking place mostly on the surface of solid materials that have the property to absorb or contain water, with or without soluble nutrients (Viniegra-Gonzalez 1997). SSF is a cultivation method in which microorganisms are grown under controlled conditions on moist solid particles, in beds within which there is a continuous gas phase between the particles, with sufficient moisture is present to maintain microbial growth and metabolism (Rahardjo et al., 2006; Mitchell et al., 2011).
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    EFFECT OF FEEDING SOLID STATE FERMENTATION BIOMASS ON PERFORMANCE OF LACTATING BUFFALOES
    (Animal Nutrition Research Station College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Anand Agricultural University Anand, 2019) Kishan P. Patel; Dr. S. B. Katole
    Production potential of Indian dairy animals did not obtain its full swing as low quality; high fibrous agricultural by-products are staple ingredients of their ration. Active rumen manipulations by use of Solid State Fermentation technique which provide crude biomass with microbes and active fiber degrading enzymes leads to better nutritive values of high fibrous feeds with improved production performance. Considering above facts present study was conducted in two phases (in vitro and in vivo) to evaluate the effect of SSF biomass on productive performance of lactating buffaloes. On incubating TMR prepared according to farmer feeding schedule which were further supplemented with increasing level of SSF biomass (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7%) replacing cereal straw for in vitro studies. It was found that IVDMD (67.08 vs. 60.64%) and IVOMD (67.55 vs. 60.47%) was most significantly improved at 4% SSF supplemental level having CMCase (170 U/g), FPase (60 U/g), Xylanase (468 U/g), Laccase (270 U/g), MnP (488 U/g) and LiP (298 U/g) enzyme activities. Accordingly, in vitro methane production was also most significantly decreased at 4% SSF level (0.85 vs. 1.38 ml/100 mg DDM) by 38.40% as compared to control. The study revealed that incorporation of SSF biomass at 4% level in ration of lactating buffaloes would be helpful to get beneficial effects.
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    “METHANE MITIGATION IN CROSSBRED BULLOCKS BY DIETARY INTERVENTIONS
    (Animal Nutrition Research Station College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Anand Agricultural University Anand, 2019) Vishal J. Gosvami; Dr. P. R. Pandya
    The experiment was conducted to study the effect of feeding lucerne gotar and urea treated wheat straw based TMR on nutrients intake, digestibility of nutrients, rumen parameters, rumen microbial protein synthesis and enteric methane emissions in crossbred bullocks. TMR with 70% wheat straw and 30% concentrate mixture was formulated as control group. In vitro DMD and methane production of TMRs with different levels of lucerne gotar viz. 10, 20, 30, 35, 40 & 50 % replacing wheat straw were studied. In vitro dry matter digestibility improved at all inclusion levels of lucerne gotar in TMRs, as compared to control group. However, a significant (P<0.05) improvement in DM digestibility was observed at inclusion of 35% lucerne gotar replacing 35% wheat straw in TMR. Similarly, in vitro methane production decreased in all lucerne gotar based TMRs compared to control (2.34 ml/100 mg DM) and 1.85 ml/100 mg DM was observed at 35% inclusion level, which was 20.94% less than the control group.
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    EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTATION OF CHELATED MINERAL MIXTURE TO ANOESTRUS AND REPEAT BREEDER BUFFALOES IN TRIBAL AREAS OF DAHOD DISTRICT
    (ANIMAL NUTRITION RESEARCH DEPARTMENT COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND, 2019) JOSHI PRAKASH M.; Dr. D. C. PATEL
    A large number of livestock in the world particularly in the tropics suffer from deficiencies or imbalances in mineral nutrition (Mc Dowell et al., 1993). Dietary deficiency of macro nutrients is well combated by commercially available feeds and hence optimum supplementation of all the micro minerals results as stimulus for ovarian rebound and initiation of ovarian activity (Markandaya et al., 2002). Deficiency of essential minerals may result in failure of the homeostasis mechanism, affecting the productive and reproductive potential of animals. Major elements like Ca and P take part in reproduction as components of many important metabolic activities involved in maintaining normal reproductive physiology. Deficiency of these elements may lead to the reproductive problems like anoestrus and repeat breeding conditions. The most devastating economic loss in dairy industry is caused due to suboptimal production and infertility. Mineral supplementation dramatically improves the condition in grazing animals from many parts of the world (Mc Dowell, 1985).