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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: Extension Education × End date: 1988 × Start date: 1986 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    A STUDY ON THE EXTENT OF ADOPTION OF RECOMMENDED SUGARCANE CULTIVATION TECHNOLOGY IN ROHTAK DISTRICT OF HARYANA STATE
    (AAU, Anand, 1987) JAIN, MOHINDER KUMAR; Patel, K. F.
    Sugarcane is one of the most important food-cum-cash crops of our country. With the significant advancement in the field of agriculture and several efforts made by various agencies to carry new technologies to the farmers fields, our goal of self sufficiency in production has not yet been achieved. This is due to the fact that a wide gap still exists between available technology and its ultimate adopters and low adoption of technology by the farmers due to several adoption problems. Hence, the present study entitled "A study on the extent of adoption of recommended sugarcane cultivation technology in Rohtak district of Haryana state" was conducted to know some of the factors which effect the adoption.
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    STUDY ON CONSTRAINTS IN ADOPTION OF POULTRY FARMING IN ANAND TALUKA OF KAIRA DISTRICT (GUJARAT)
    (AAU, Anand, 1986) SAIYAD, AMIRUDDIN S.; PATEL, H. L.
    Objectives of the study :- 1. To study the socio-economic and psychological characteristics of the poultry farmers. 2. To determine the level of adoption of the selected improved poultry farming practices by the poultry farmers. 3. To study the constraints in adoption of poultry farming as perceived by the poultry farmers. 4. To ascertain the suggestions of the poultry farmers to overcome the constraints in poultry farming. 5. To determine the relationship between socio-economic and psychological characteristics of the poultry farmers and the overall adoption of selected improved poultry farming practices.
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    FACTORS AFFECTING THE ADOPTION OF HYBRID-6 COTTON CULTIVATION TECHNOLOGY IN IDAR TALUKA OF SABARKANTHA DISTRICT OF GUJARAT STATE
    (AAU, Anand, 1987) PATEL, VINODBHAI BAHECHARBHAI; Patel, K. F.
    Even with the advancement of improved technology in Hybrid-6 cotton cultivation, it has been observed that either the same has not reached to the door steps of the farming families or the farmers are reluctant to use this technology. Hence, a complete analysis of the process of adoption of innovation which is found to be affected by number of dependent factors acting all together at a time is essential. The present study was therefore, conducted to know the factors affecting the adoption of Hybrid-6 cotton cultivation technology in Idar taluka of Sabarkantha district of Gujarat state. OBJECTIVES OF STUDY: (i) To study personal, social, economic and psychological characteristics of Hybrid-6 cotton cultivators. (ii) To determine the sources of information utilized by the Hybrid-6 cotton cultivators. (iii) To find out the extent of adoption of recommended Hybrid-6 cotton cultivation technology by Hybrid-6 cotton cultivators. (iv) To find out the extent of adoption of recommended Hybrid-6 cotton cultivation technology by Hybrid-6 cotton cultivators. (v) To determine the relationship between personal, social, economic and psychological characteristics of Hybrid-6 cotton cultivators and their extent of adoption of recommended Hybrid-6 cotton cultivation technology.
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    A STUDY ON FARM WOMEN'S CONTRIBUTION TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN EAST DISTRICT OF SIKKIM STATE
    (AAU, Anand, 1987) LEPCHA, TSETEN TASHI; PATEL, H. N.
    In family farm the greater portion of farm labour is supplied by the farmer, his wife and other members of family reducing considerably the cash costs of cultivation. The closest association of the farmer is his wife, sharing with her man the arduous burden of farm work in addition to her major responsibility as home maker, by helping regularly in all other farm operations such as weeding, harvesting, threshing, winnowing, irrigating and carrying out the produce and fodder from the field to home as well as selling of farm products and working as farm hired labourer in other’s field. Thus, the farm women play an important role in agriculture and could play an even more important role through the transfer of improved technology, needs more recognisation. On route to achieve this, is the implementation of policies that will maximise their contribution. Therefore, the present study which was intended to know the extent of contribution in various activities of agricultural and household operation by farm women, their influence in decision taken in agriculture, constraints and their opinions, occupies an important place.
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    A STUDY OF BENEFICIARIES' DISCERNMENT ON I.R.D.P. ACTIVITIES IN MAHEWA BLOCK OF ETAWAH DISTRICT IN UTTAR PRADESH
    (AAU, Anand, 1987) SINGH, BHARAT PRASAD; Patel, H. L.
    INTRODUCTION: The integrated rural development programme is a major instrument of the Government strategy to alleviate poverty. The programme envisages the development of the rural areas and the people belonging to the weaker sections such as small and marginal farmers, tenants and sharecroppers, landless labourers, rural artisans, member of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. Its objectives is to enable selected families to cross poverty line through a strategy of productive assests endowment. The assets which would be in the primary, secondary or teritary sectors are provided by financial assistance which comprises subsidy and bank loan. The extent of subsidy is 25 percent for small farmers, 33.33 percent for marginal farmers, agricultural labourers, artisans and 50 per cent for tribal families.
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    A STUDY ON READING BEHAVIOUR, EFFECTIVENESS AND EXTENT OF UTILIZATION OF KRUSHI-GO-VIDYA MAGAZINE AS PERCEIVED BY ITS FARMER READERS
    (AAU, Anand, 1988) BHARAD, NARENDRAKUMAR DHANJIBHAI; Trivedi, J C
    There are several methods for transmitting the agricultural research findings to the doorsteps of the cultivators. Among these , mass media like , radio , television and printed material have been considered as the important tools to convey the information to the lacs of people. Among printed material , farm magazines occupy a key position , which provide the agricultural information to the farmers. But they differ from each other in terms of quality of printing , designing, presentation of material and their usefulness. In such condition, it is very much essential to improve usefulness and effectiveness of farm magazines in order to make them more understandable, informative and popular. No systematic and scientific work has been done in this regards . Hence, keeping t h i s in view, Krushi-Go-Vidya, the oldest most regiolar as well as technical Gujarati farm magazine was selected for the study.
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    COMMUNICATION GAP AND TECHNOLOGICAL GAP IN PADDY PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND ITS EFFECT ON PRODUCTION IN KURUKSHETRA DISTRICT OF HARYANA
    (AAU, Anand, 1987) SOOD, ASHOK KUMAR; PATEL, H. N.
    Objective of the study 1. To study the sources of information about paddy technology. 2. To study the knowledge level of extension personnel (SMS and VEW) and farmers (CF and FF) in respect of technology for paddy cultivation. 3. To ascertain the communication or information gap at information generation level and various level of information utilization in respect of paddy technology. 4. To ascertain the technological gap of CF and FF in respect of paddy cultivation technology. 5. To find out association between the knowledge level and technological gap in respect of paddy technology. 6. To find out the association between knowledge level of SMS and VEW, VEW and CF; and CF and FF. 7. To study the effect of technological gap on the production of paddy.
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    A STUDY ON THE ADOPTION OF RECOMMENDED WHEAT TECHNOLOGY IN HISAR DISTRICT OF HARYANA STATE
    (AAU, Anand, 1988) DHUL, PREM SINGH; PATEL, K. F.
    Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops of our country. But, inspite of our best efforts in transfer of fast emerging wheat cultivation technology in simple and understandable forms to the rural farmers, there has been a vast untapped production reservoir in our farming system at current level of technology. This is only due to the fact that there still exists a wide gap between the available production technology and its adoption by the farmers. Hence, the present study entitled "A study on the adoption of recommended wheat technology in Hisar district of Haryana State" was conducted to know the factors affecting the adoption of wheat cultivation technology. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 1. To study the personal and socio-economic characteristics of the adopter farmers. 2. To find out the level of knowledge regarding recommended v;heat production technology. 3. To know; the sources of information utilized by the wheat cultivators. 4. To determine the extent of adoption of the recommended wheat production technology. 5. To study the relationship between personal and socioeconomic characteristics of wheat cultivators and their extent of adoption of recommended wheat production technology. 6. To study the constraints in adoption of recommended technology for wheat cultivation. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY The present study was conducted in Hisar Sub-division of Hisar district of Haryana State. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select a sample for the study. Thus, total 150 respondents were randomly selected from 10 purposively selected villages of the said sub-division of Hisar district. Keeping in view the objectives of study, the interview schedule was prepared and necessary modifications and arrangement of questions were made after pre-testing. Desired data were collected with the help of personal interview schedule. A teacher made scale was used to measure the level of knowledge of the respondents regarding wheat cultivation technology. While, the extent of addition was measured with the help of adoption scale developed by Sengupta (1967), dt simple ranking technique was applied to measure the sources of information utilized and main constraints in adoption of v/heat 2 cultivation technology. Chi-square (X2) test was applied to know the relationship between independent and dependent variables MAJOR FINDINGS 1. Near about half (49.33 per cent) of the respondents were from middle age group. 2. A little more than fifty per cent of respondents (54.00 per cent) had education upto primary and secondary levels. 3. Majority of the respondents (60.00 per cent) had farming experience of above 20 years. 4. Majority of the respondents had nuclear and large sized family. 5. Nearly about half (49.33 per cent) of the respondents were members in one organisation. 6. Majority of the respondents had medium extension contact. 7. Majority of the respondents had land holding above 10 acres 6. A little more than forty per cent of the respondents had annual income above Rs. 20,000/-. 9. Majority of the respondents (70.67 per cent) had farming only as their main occupation. 10. About two thirds of the respondents had medium level of knowledge. 11. Village Level worker/Agricultural Development Officer, neighbours, radio, friends. Circle Agricultural Officer, relatives. Sub-divisional Agricultural Officer were the maximum sources of information utilized. 12. A little more than three fifth of the respondents had medium level of adoption 13. Among different personal and socio-economic characteristics, age, education, farming experience, extension contact, land holding, annual income and occupation were found significantly associated with the extent of adoption. 14. Knowledge level of the wheat cultivators was found significantly associated with the extent of adoption. 15. Main constraints in adoption of recommended wheat technology were irregular supply of canal water, uncertain weather condition, short supply of electricity, low price of produce, lack of storage facility, lack of technical guidance for seed treatment, lack of knowledge regarding application of chemical fertilizer and lack of technical guidance for the application of weedicides.
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    A STUDY ON COMMUNICATION GAP BETWEEN VILLAGE EXTENSION WORKERS AND FARMERS, WITH A SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PADDY CROP IN THE NARWANA SUB-DIVISION OF HARYANA STATE
    (AAU, Anand, 1987) GUPTA, ASHOK KUMAR; PATEL, H. L.
    Systematic training and systematic visit are two basic concepts embodied in the T & V Extension System. The main idea behind the systematic training is to develop adequate professional knowledge and skill in extension workers about the specific farm recommendations to be made during the forth coming fortnight to the farmers. Systematic visits to the farmers field and making interpersonal contacts with farmers follow the training. Schedules of visit are closely supervised at all levels of the extension system. The number of farm families per village extensions worker is set at a manageable level and specific schedule of visit is rigidly followed. The ratio of supervisory staff is such that close supervision is convenient at all levels.