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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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    FARMERS PERCEPTION ABOUT THE KRISHI JIVAN FARM MAGAZINE
    (INSTITUTE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2020) Parmar Krushnpalsinh I.; Dr.Vinaya Kumar H. M.
    i “FARMERS PERCEPTION ABOUT THE KRISHI JIVAN FARM MAGAZINE” Name of Student Major Advisor Parmar Krushnpalsinh I. Dr.Vinaya Kumar H. M. INSTITUTE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND-388001 ABSTRACT The Indian agriculture sector is in innovation from traditional to commercial agriculture. India is the country where the half (52 per cent) of the population depending on agriculture. Modern agricultural practises and the relationship with environmental depletion is creating a problem. Some of the developmental challenges facing the Indian agriculture sector are illiteracy, weak socio-economic circumstances, lack of technological skills and understanding, limited holdings of land, modernisation leading to barren land and disasters leading to rural poverty, weather-dependent farming systems, low per capita income, underdeveloped physical infrastructure and inefficient bureaucratic procedures associated with the comparatively high cost of agricultural production. Any countries success primarily depends on research and technology growth and its productive use. New technology covering numerous areas, such as plant defence methods including biological and organic methods, new crop varieties with the desired specific norm, are being established by state agricultural universities along with other research organisations. New technologies are being established at the organisation level, but due to the lack of diffusion, farmers do not benefit from these technologies. The Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd (GSFC) has regularly published Krishi Jivan Farm magazine (KJFM) in Gujarati and Hindi language.
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    UTILITY PERCEPTION OF FARMERS TOWARDS M-KISAN IN BHAVNAGAR DISTRICT
    (INSTITUTE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2020) Makwana Megha R.; Dr. Hemlata Saini
    Developing agriculture and rural economy is one of the most orientations of any Government. In India, the vigorous development of ICT has strongly influenced every socio-economic aspect to become the most significant motivation of the socio-economic development and poverty reduction. ICT has been creating not only opportunities but challenges to business in rural areas to narrow down the gap between sustainable growth and poverty. The potential benefit of computerizing data input and information management is well known and apparent.
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    PARTICIPATION OF FARMWOMEN IN FAMILY WELFARE AND AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2020) Thakur Nidhi B.; Dr. J. B. Patel
    Most of the women perform various types of works for their livelihood, agriculture and allied is considered as biggest sector which is unorganized where large number of rural women actively participates in it. Rural women is able to manage multifaceted works, which include agriculture and its allied activities, house hold activities, caring for family members and maintaining all the household activities without any hassles. Numerous of these activities are not defined as “economically active employment” contributing to the GDP of nation even though they are indispensable part for the wellbeing of rural households. Even though their contribution is much their role is neglected. Hence, the present study was taken to know the facts, situations, constraints and suggestions to enhance the, “Participation of farmwomen in family welfare and agricultural development”.
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    EVALUATION OF PROPHYLACTIC EFFICACY OF PLANTS Boerhavia diffusa AND Tribulus terrestris ON ADENINE INDUCED CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE IN RATS
    (Department of Veterinary Medicine College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2020) Siddhiben Gunvantbhai Patel; Dr. S.K. Raval
    The present study was conducted to evaluate the prophylactic efficacy of plants Boerhavia diffusa and Tribulus terrestris on adenine induced chronic kidney disease on 30 adult healthy male Wistar rats (12-15 weeks of age). Rats were divided into 4 groups, viz., group-I (Healthy control), II (Adenine control), III (Aqueous biherbal extract of Boerhavia diffusa and Tribulus terrestris, 0.5:1), IV (Alcoholic biherbal extract of Boerhavia diffusa and Tribulus terrestris, 1:1). Group I had 6 rats, and groups II, III and IV had 8 rats each. All the rats were numbered group wise and individually. Group I served as healthy/normal control. Group II served as adenine control, wherein adenine chemical was given @ 200 mg/kg body weight. Groups III and IV served as prophylactic treatment groups, and were given aqueous and alcoholic biherbal extracts, respectively, along with adenine solution for 28 days.
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    CLINICO-ETIODIAGNOSIS AND THERAPEUTIC MANAGEMENT OF VOMITION IN DOGS
    (Department of Veterinary Medicine College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2020) Rimjhim Khanduri; Rimjhim Khanduri; Dr. S. K. Raval; Dr. S. K. Raval
    It has been witnessed that vomiting is a common clinical presentation in small animal practice and may be associated with good sort of both gastrointestinal and systemic diseases. It can be a challenging problem for veterinary clinicians observing that vomition can be associated with a multitude of causes. The present study was carried out for Clinico-etiodiagnosis and therapeutic management of vomition in dogs. A total of 50 cases of vomition were selected for the therapeutic trial. The affected dogs were divided into 3 groups, viz., A, B and C each group comprised of 8 dogs, while eight healthy dogs in group H were used as control for comparison. The haemato-biochemical estimations were done on days 0, 3rd and 10th treatment days.
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    DEVELOPMENT OF TWO ROW FERTILIZER APPLICATOR FOR SIDE DRESSING IN MAIZE (Zea mays L.)
    (DEPARTMENT OF FARM MACHINERY AND POWER ENGINEERING COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, GODHRA, 2020) Godhani. R.S.; Dr. Pankaj Gupta
    Maize (Zea mays L.) ranks third in total world production after wheat and rice and it is considered as the “Queen of Cereals”. In Indian Agriculture, maize has a special significance on an account of its utilization as food, feed and fodder besides several agro-based industries uses. Conventional method of applying fertilizers in standing maize crop is generally done manually. It involves problems like uneven spreading of fertilizers, more time and human effort, creating health hazards and loss of costly fertilizers. The problems faced by farmers in fertilizer application were taken care and a two row fertilizer applicator pushed by a single operator for side dressing in maize was developed. The performance of developed fertilizer applicator was evaluated at different independent parameters; forward speeds (0.3,0.4,0.5 m/s), no. of ground wheels (1 & 2 nos.) & varieties of maize (GM-3 & GAYMH-3) in terms of effective field capacity, theoretical field capacity, field efficiency, heart rate, comfort rating, grain yield and fodder. During the field evaluation, it was found that the developed fertilizer applicator performed better at 0.4 m/s forward speed with single ground wheel. The different performance parameters obtained were 0.136 & 0.161 ha/h EFC, 107.22 & 106.44 bpm heart rate, 3.00 & 3.00 comfort rating, 4847.22 & 5955.56 kg/ha grain yield and 7658.61 & 9171.56 kg/ha fodder for variety-1 & 2, respectively. The performance of developed fertilizer applicator was also compared with traditional manual method of side dressing in maize crop. The EFC of developed machine in case of vareiety-1 & vareiety-2 were found 57.35 & 54.65 % more, respectively as compared to traditional manual method. Also, fertilizer application was more comfortable than traditional method. The cost of operation (Rs./ha) and labour requirement (man-h/ha) for variety-1 & variety-2 were found 49.50 & 46.32 % and 57.56 & 54.83 % less for developed fertilizer applicator, respectively as compared to traditional method. The developed machine worked satisfactorily with expected payback period of 264.26 hour on hour basis.
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    KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE OF MEMBER FARMERS OF GRAM PANCHAYAT TOWARDS PRADHAN MANTRI FASAL BIMA YOJANA
    (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2020) Chirag D. Chauhan; Dr. J. B. Patel
    Agriculture sector in India faces the risk of loss due to draughts, floods and other natural calamities and thereby it is imperative to protect farmers form any kind of loss and enable them to maintain their financial position for the next crop season. Agriculture and allied activities are of the most important sectors of Indian economy and accounts for nearly 16 per cent of India’s gross domestic product (GDP) and provides employment to about half of the workforce of the country. Realizing the importance of agriculture sector various schemes have been launched by government since independence in the interest of farmers of the country. The recently launched scheme is the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY), which is a kind of a “One nation-One scheme” launched in the year 2016. PMFBY provides a widespread insurance cover against failure of the crops and helps in stabilizing the income of the insured farmers. Considering the scanty researches and prevailing facts about present study, an effort in this direction was made by planning and conducting a study on “Knowledge and Attitude of Member Farmers of Gram Panchayat towards Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana” was undertaken with the following objectives.
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    DEVELOPMENT OF SCALE TO MEASURE THE ATTITUDE OF STUDENTS TOWARDS AGRICULTURAL JOURNALISM
    (INSTITUTE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2020) Patel Juliben Mahendrakumar; Dr. J. B. Patel
    India is principally an agricultural country. Sixty four per cent of the Indian population lives in villages. Fifty eight per cent of the total workforce depends on agriculture for its daily bread (FAO, 2016). Agriculture is the single largest private sector occupation in the country. To maintain this scenario of farming in India, the farmers need suitable and sustainable solutions in form of understandable information in different forms. On the other hand there is a public debate on the problem of unemployment among the graduates. Thus, in the present context of employability, choosing career intelligently is of vital importance. To provide quality information to the farmers and to overcome the employment problem of the students, agricultural graduate students should also think of the agricultural journalist as a career option. The experts involved in the development of rural and agricultural development have opinion that new generation of graduate agricultural scholars should have positivism in certain mind-set, wisdom, knowledge and skills that facilitate effective and wise use of understanding, experience and formal education. These expected qualities are helpful to be a successful, motivating and productive farm communicators or journalists. However, presently there is no research done to measure such feeling. Looking at this, present investigation was conducted to develop the scale for measuring the attitude towards agricultural journalism of graduate students of final year studying in AAU with following specific objectives.
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    INCLINATION OF BANANA GROWERS TOWARDS SOIL HEALTH CARD IN ANAND DISTRICT
    (DEPARTMENT OF EXTENSION EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION B. A. COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2020) Mehul Prajapati; Dr. A. R. Makwan
    Banana (Musa sp.) is the second most important fruit crop in India next to Mango. Being a perennial crop its nutrient requirement is comparatively high throughout its lifespan so traditionally farmers are haphazardly applying chemical fertilizers which not only affects soil and plant health but also economic health of farmer and leads to environmental pollution. So, to improve the soil health and boost productivity it has become necessary to nurture the soil. In the wake of this, government launched Soil Health Cards (SHC) scheme. Soil test based recommendation for fertilizer use will not only increase the Banana crop production with judicious investment on fertilizer use but will also help to keep the soil productivity sustainable also. Keeping this in view, an attempt was made to study “Inclination of Banana growers towards soil health card in Anand district” with following objectives