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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: 1988 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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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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    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 THE JOB SATISFACTION OF TEACHERS OF GUJARAT AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, ANAND CAMPUS, ANAND
    (AAU, Anand, 1988) MALIK, CHANDER PARKASH; PATEL, H. L.
    The teacher is considered as one of the vital pivots of the society . He is said to be an architect of "future generation". The society has many expectations from him and in a democratic set up the importance of the teacher can not be minimised because education has been regarded as one of the most important instruments of democracy. But on the other hand, the teachers today are being held partly responsible for various problems, like unrest and in discipline. It is the opinion of even common people that teachers do not discharge their duties properly. The performance of an university can be best judged by the competence of its scientists and accomplishments of its objectives. The position of teachers of agricultural universities is different than the traditional universities . The broad work situation , teaching - research - extension expects many things from a teacher of an agricultural university. Moreover, he is directly concerned with national problem of food, fibre , oil seed, pulse and milk production. He has to put tangible results before the community to show his worth. And the achievement of these results depends upon satisfaction of teachers with their jobs. Mahurkar (1931), Shrivastva (1983) and Rao (1986) have emphasized the need for the scientific study of the problem of measuring job satisfaction of the employees since it can yield important implication for the improvement of the performance in a given work situation. Keeping this in view, the investigation entitled , "A study on job satisfaction of teachers" of Gujarat Agricultural University , Anand Campus, Anand was undertaken. Objectives of the study :- 1. To study the personal, socio-economic and psychological characteristics of teachers of G.A.U., Anand Campus. 2. To study the extent of job satisfaction of teachers of G.A.U., Anand Campus. 3. To study the significant differences in the job satisfaction between teachers of different faculties and between the teachers of different categories. 4. To study the relationship of personal, socio-economic, psychological characteristics and extent of, job satisfaction of teachers of G.A.U., Anand Campus. 5. To identify the problems faced by the teachers of G.A.U., Anand Campus and to elicit solutions for their effective functioning. Research Methodology :- The present study was carried out in Anand Campus of Gujarat Agricultural University. The three colleges which represent the three faculties in Anand Campus namely, College of Agriculture, Veterinary College and Dairy Science College were purposively selected. All the teachers who were involved either at graduate or post-graduate teaching with a minimum of three years or more continuous teaching, research and extension experience were treated as respondents. Therefore, the sample consisted of 21 Professors, 51 Associate Professors and 73 Assistant Professors representing three faculties . The total teachers considered as the sample for the study were 145. "The job satisfaction" of teachers of G.A.U., Anand Campus was measured with the help of a teacher made scale developed on the basis of principles of Likert method which was treated as dependent variable. Personal, psychological and situational variables were studied and presented in terms of frequencies and percentages. Problems faced by the teachers were also studied and presented in terms of frequencies and percentages. Scoring method was used wherever necessary. Per testing the significance of differences between different faculties and between different categories of teachers Kruskal-wallis (H-test) test and 't' test were used. Per testing the relationship , the chi-square (X2 ) test was used. The data collected through questionnaire by personal contact of the investigator to the respondents. The data collected were tabulated, organised, analysed and presented in a way that it may give proper representation and answers to the specific objectives of the study. Major findings :- 1. Majority (56.55 percent) of the teachers belonged to the middle age group and 51.72 percent of the teachers had their qualification as Doctorate, 2. 70.34 percent, 66.21 percent and 58.52 percent of the teachers had medium experience in teaching, research and total experience, respectively. whereas 71.03 percent of the teachers had low experience in extension. 3. Majority (77.24 percent) of the teachers received low training . 4. Majority (67.59 percent) of the teachers had their salaries medium. 5. Majority (61.48 percent) of the teachers had average attitude towards teaching. 6. Majority (53.10 per cent) of the teachers had average work load. 7. Majority (69.97 percent) of the teachers expressed that facilities available in the departments were average. 8. Majority (56.21 per cent) of the teachers had medium achievement motivation. 9. Majority (68.28 percent) of the teachers had medium level of present aspiration. 10. Majority (72.42 percent) of the teachers had medium level of future aspiration. 11. Majority (59.31 percent) of the teachers had medium opportunities for professional development. 12. Majority (65.52 per cent) of the teachers were found satisfied with their jobs. 13. ICruskal-v/allis test value (H = 0.08) indicated that there was no significant difference in the mean job satisfaction scores of teachers working in different faculties of G.A.U., Anand Campus, 14. Kruskal-Wallis test value (H = 6.80) indicated that the significant difference is found in the mean job satisfaction scores between Professors-Associate Professors and Professors-Assistant Professors. 15. It was revealed that the characteristics lite attitude towards teaching, facilities available and opportunities for professional development were found significantly related with the job satisfaction of teachers of (G.A.U., Anand Campus. 16. The main problems in job satisfaction of teachers were administrative staff delay the paper work, lack of ministerial and technical assistance, centralization of powers, lack of powers to teachers to tackle the in disciplined students, no job consistency due to frequent transfers etc . , no criteria for promotion and appointments, less weight age to experience, merit etc ., poor training facilities , inadequate laboratory facilities , frequent changes in rules, lack of evaluation of teacher work, lack of teaching equipments, over-burdening the teachers with unnecessary reports.