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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: Farm, Machinery and Power × Author: Bhabhor Mukeshkumar S. × End date: 2019 ×
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    DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLE FOR AGRICULTURAL SPRAYING OPERATION
    (DEPARTMENT OF FARM MACHINERY AND POWER ENGINEERING COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, GODHRA, 2019) Bhabhor Mukeshkumar S.; Dr. Pankaj Gupta
    India is an agricultural dependent country, as still more than 55% population depends upon it for their livelihood. But, most of the farmers are very poor due to the low income from the agriculture. To enhance the income from agriculture, it is essential to increase the productivity or to bring more land under cultivation, which is limited. Mechanization of field operations is one way to increase productivity as agricultural machinery and implements are capable of doing field operations with precision and in lesser time. Judicious management of all the inputs is essential to increase production, profitability and the sustainability of such a complex system. Thus, precise application of inputs and agricultural operations are needed. Apart from these, Indian agriculture is facing challenges of ever increasing population and day by day shortage of agricultural labour. Thus, time has now arrived to exploit all the modern tools available and agricultural science together to improve economic and environmentally sustainable crop production. The advent of autonomous system architectures gives us the opportunity to develop a new range of flexible agricultural equipment based on small, smart machines that reduces waste, improves economic viability, reduces environmental impact and increases food sustainability.