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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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    STUDIES ON MILKABILITY TRAITS IN TRIPLE CROSSBRED AND KANKREJ COWS
    (Anand Agricultural University, 2008) ANAND; Dr. M. M. Trivedi
    An experiment was conducted at Livestock Research Station, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Anand Agricultural University, Anand to study the milkability traits. The experiment was conducted on 24 milking cows i.e. 12 triple crossbred cows (HF (25%) x Jersey (25%) x Kankrej (50%)) and 12 Kankrej cows. The triple crossbreds were weaned whereas Kankrej cows were unweaned. All the cows were in second to fourth parity and in mid lactation stage a t the start of the experiment. All the cows were hand milked twice in a day at 5.30 a.m. onwards in the morning and 5.30 p.m onwards in the evening. The duration of the experiment was for six months i.e. from August-2007 to January-2008 covering two seasons viz. hot-humid (August-September) and cold-dry (October-January).