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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: Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Extension Education × Start date: 2008 ×
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    DEVELOPMENT OF SCALE TO MEASURE ATTITUDE OF BROILER FARMERS TOWARDS BROILER FARMING IN MIDDLE GUJARAT
    (DEPARTMENT OF VETERINARY AND A.H. EXTENSION COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY ANAND AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY ANAND, 2017) JOSHI NAYANKUMAR HARISHANKAR; Dr. A. C. Vaidya
    Domestication of poultry is believed to have taken place between 7,000 and 10,000 years ago. Poultry keeping in India was largely a backyard venture until the 1950s with native birds such as Aseel, Kadaknath and other non-descriptive breeds without much attention to scientific practices. In India the scientific poultry keeping was first initiated and advocated by Christian missionaries, by introducing exotic birds during 20th century. The performance of these birds was certainly better than local (Deshi) fowls.
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    RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF EXTENSION TOOLS ON GAIN AND RETENTION OF KNOWLEDGE REGARDING CLEAN MILK PRODUCTION
    (AAU, Anand, 2009) PARMAR, BIPINCHANDRA JIVANLAL; PATEL, ASHOK A.
    Clean Milk Production (CMP) plays a very important role to meet international standards and adds high value to it. Making use of hygienic practices at the door of livestock owner is most important in clean milk production. This requires increased extension support for communicating the issues of CMP to the dairy farmers. The present research has focused to assess the relative effectiveness of folder (as print media) and multimedia (as an electronic media) over the lecture + discussion tool on gain and retention of knowledge for CMP. The study was carried out in Panchmahals and Ahmedabad districts of Gujarat state. Two taluka of each district and three villages from these talukas were selected. In all, 240 respondents were selected through purposive stratified random sampling technique. Two depended variables namely gain in knowledge & retention of knowledge and ten independent variables were selected. Message of technical knowhow regarding CMP was convene through specially developed three extension tools namely lecture + discussion, folder and multimedia. The before-after experimental design was used. Data were collected through specially structured questionnaires. Appropriate statistical tools were employed like paired t test & Z test to measure significance of improvement in knowledge due to use of a particular tool. Correlation coefficient test was employed to find out correlation between dependent and independent variables. The difference between levels of knowledge before application of tool and just after applications of tool was considered as gain in knowledge (KnG). Similarly the knowledge level of CMP tested after one month is considered as retension of knowledge (KnR). The gain in knowledge was highest in case of use of multimedia followed by lecture + discussion and folder. Retention of knowledge was also highest in case of multimedia followed by lecture + discussion and Folder. The age, experience in dairy fanning, social participation, annual income from dairy, mass media exposure and extension contact have been found to be positively correlated with gain in knowledge as well as retention of knowledge. In addition to this, the level of education and daily milk yield were found to be positively correlated with retention of knowledge.
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