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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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    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.