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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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Author: PATEL KINJALBEN JAGDISHBHAI × Start date: 1960 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Tech. ×
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    APPRAISAL OF VARIOUS PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND DETECTION OF SYNTHETIC COLOURS IN SAFFRON (Crocus sativus
    (Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2009) PATEL KINJALBEN JAGDISHBHAI; Dr. V. R. Boghra
    The commercial saffron samples were received by the Department for analytical testing from different dairy plants and commercial saffron sellers of Gujarat. The saffron contained on an average 12.88 per cent moisture and volatile matter, 119.77 colouring power (as direct reading of the absorbance of crocin at 440 nm, on dry matter basis), 55.85 per cent (on dry matter basis) aqueous extract, 6.56 per cent floral waste, 2.47 per cent (on dry basis) nitrogen, 4.57 per cent total ash and 0.57 per cent acid insoluble ash. It was seen that there was very large variation in the moisture content from 7.50 to 18.39 per cent and about 97 out of 160 samples (61 per cent) contained moisture well above 12 per cent under regulatory norms. The colouring strength of samples ranged as low as 19.11 and maximum to the values of 231.77. It was further observed that 62 samples were of finest quality (above 110) as per ISO-1993. The values for majority of the samples (97 samples) fall between 70.10 and 146.75 with 60.63 per cent as revealed in frequency distribution
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    APPRAISAL OF VARIOUS PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND DETECTION OF SYNTHETIC COLOURS IN SAFFRON (Crocus sativus
    (Anand Agricultural University, Anand, 2009) PATEL KINJALBEN JAGDISHBHAI; Dr. V. R. Boghra
    The commercial saffron samples were received by the Department for analytical testing from different dairy plants and commercial saffron sellers of Gujarat. The saffron contained on an average 12.88 per cent moisture and volatile matter, 119.77 colouring power (as direct reading of the absorbance of crocin at 440 nm, on dry matter basis), 55.85 per cent (on dry matter basis) aqueous extract, 6.56 per cent floral waste, 2.47 per cent (on dry basis) nitrogen, 4.57 per cent total ash and 0.57 per cent acid insoluble ash. It was seen that there was very large variation in the moisture content from 7.50 to 18.39 per cent and about 97 out of 160 samples (61 per cent) contained moisture well above 12 per cent under regulatory norms. The colouring strength of samples ranged as low as 19.11 and maximum to the values of 231.77. It was further observed that 62 samples were of finest quality (above 110) as per ISO-1993. The values for majority of the samples (97 samples) fall between 70.10 and 146.75 with 60.63 per cent as revealed in frequency distribution. The aqueous extract ranged between 30.18 and 69.38 per cent