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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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End date: 1989 × Start date: 1986 × Thesis Type: M.Tech. ×
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    STUDIES ON THOR LATEX EXTRACTION AND DRYING
    (AAU, Anand, 1986) PATEL, K. V.; Siripurapu, S. C. B.
    In the present investigations extraction and drying of Thor latex were studied. Various parameters related to plant and cut like cut location, cut spacing, depth of cut, spacing of cut, cut interval, latex collection time, seasonal latex yield were studied to optimize operating parameters of latex collection. Horizontal type of cut with 5 mm depth on the main stem at a collection interval of one week gave satisfactory results. 25 mm width of cut was found to be acceptable. For optimum latex yield, out spacing of 150 mm is recommended. A collection interval of 15 seconds is recommended so as to recover around 90 percent of latex and also to harvest as many plants as possible. The latex yield per out is around 1 ml. The hammer shaped outting tool was modified to give proper cut without much exertion to the worker. A two vessel collection system was designed. The instant latex collection vessel is of 250 ml capacity and of cuboid shape with handle. A commonly used galvanized iron bucket with a lid was selected as a storage vessel. The overall performance of improved latex collection system was found to be superior over traditional method.
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    DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ANIMAL DRAWN GROUNDNUT PLANTER
    (AAU, Anand, 1987) MEMON, ABUBAKAR H.; Hakimuddin
    Experimentally it was found that the traditional method of sowing leads to unsatisfactory plant population which in turn affects the yield per hectare. Beside, this, in the traditional method the seed requirement is 10 to 20 % higher and thinning is required to get desired plant population. Groundnut, therefore, required a planter for accurate seed metering and regulating,plant to plant spacing in row. Till to date animal drawn groundnut planter is not available which can perform the above mentioned functions satisfactorily. Keeping the above facts in view a project on design and development of animal drawn groundnut planter was under taken at Department of Farm Engineering, Gujarat Agricultural University, Junagadh Campus, Junagadh.The designed and developed groundnut planter was tested both at laboratory as well as field level. The seed rate, mechanical damage and viability of seeds were tested in the laboratory. The seed rate for groundnut varieties JL-24 and GAUG-1 were found to be 103 kg/ha and 101 kg/ha respectively, Whereas the mechanical damage of both the varieties JL-24 and GAUG-1 were 0.77 % and 0.61 % respectively. The viability of seed from the planter was satisfactory. During field testing of the planter, the power requirement, depth of placement of seeds in the furrows, uniformity and spacing were determined. It was found that the draft required to operate this planter was 26.31 kg with the speed of 2.2 kmph (.0,61 m/sec). The average power required to operate the planter was 0.213 hp. The depth of placement of seeds v/as uniform as y.O cm, whereas the number of seed in 5 m length of furrow and spacing between two seeds v/ere observed for all the three furrow openers which varied from 51 to 53.7 seeds and 9.3 cm to 9.6 cm respectively. The theoretical field capacity of the planter was observed as 0.296 ha/hr, while the effective field capacity and field efficiency were determined as 0.202 ha/hr and 68,24 % respectively. Only one labour is required to operate the planter.Based, on the above results, this planter would be very useful to the farmers for sowing the groundnut seeds at proper seed rate and required spacing there-by help in increasing the groundnut production.