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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SOCIAL MEDIA UTILISATION BEHAVIOUR OF FARMERS FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT
(INSTITUTE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2021) Patel Pratik Kiritkumar; Dr. Vinaya Kumar, H. M.
Social media in agriculture is a new upcoming field focusing on the empowerment to farmers for agricultural information sharing and communication. Social media includes various tools that allow interactive means of communication among people and information exchange worldwide. Social media not only enables users to connect anytime and anywhere but also provides a platform for storing information. During a crisis such as natural disasters and disease out brakes, social media can be extensively used to communicate and coordinate with other stakeholders in authorities, organizations and systems, and farming communities. Social media has quickly become the wide-ranging way of broadcasting information in various types such as video, audio, text, photographs, documents, locations and different data in different extensions. Due to high affordability, social media has become the world’s common way of communication. The acceptance of social media has increased; thus, various applications, tools, platforms, functions, and features have been evaluated. Hence the social media has to be studied to generate information about possible use in agriculture extension. Agricultural technologies can be exploited more efficiently using social media to share accurate, timely, relevant information and services through user-friendly ways to the stakeholders for sustainable agriculture development.
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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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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

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