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University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad

The University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad was established on October 1, 1986. The University has 5 Colleges, 27 Research Stations, 6 Agriculture Extension Education Centers, 6 Krishi Vigyan Kendras and ATIC. The University has its jurisdiction over 7 districts namely Bagalkot, Belgaum, Bijapur, Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, and Uttar Kannada in northern Karnataka. Greater diversity exists in soil types, climate, topography cropping and farming situations. The jurisdiction includes dry-farming to heavy rainfall and irrigated area. Important crops of the region include sorghum, cotton, rice, pulses, chilli, sugarcane, groundnut, sunflower, wheat, safflower etc. The region is also known for many horticultural crops. Considerable progress has been registered in the field of education, research and extension from this University.

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Subject: Agricultural Statistics and Informatics × Thesis Type: M.Sc × Start date: 2000 × End date: 2009 × Author: Hiremath ×
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    FORMATION OF AN INDEX FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN DISTRICTS OF KARNATAKA
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, DHARWAD, 2001) Hiremath; Jagadish R Katarki, P A
    "Agriculture is not only an important sector of an economy rather it also feeds other sectors oi the economy. Agriculture development determines the rate of growth of an economy. The extent of agricultural development becomes even more important in the developing economy because of the dominance of the agricultural sector in such economies. The development of agriculture and the factors affecting regional disparity with respect to agricultural development was studied in detail using nine important agricultural development indicators. The study pertained to Kamataka state and its component districts. The secondary data were collected for a period of 6 years depending on the availability of the data starting from 1992-93 to 1997-98, pertaining to nine important agricultural development indicators like per cent net irrigated, per cent net area sown, productivity, per cent net area under high yielding varieties, number of irrigation pumpsets, fertilizer consumption, sericulture production, regulated markets and rainfall. The Mahalanobis D^ analysis (distance statistic) was employed to know the extent of regional disparity, factors affecting regional disparity and to classify the districts based on agricultural development. The results revealed that districts were highly despair with respect to agricultural development and the per cent net irrigated area, number of regulated markets and sericulture production were the major factors affecting regional disparity followed by number of irrigation pumpsets, productivity of importance food grains, rainfall, per cent area under high yielding varieties, per cent net area sown and fertilizer consumption. All the 20 districts were grouped into ten clusters and the ten clusters were categorised into three groups as highly developed, moderately developed and low developed using the agricultural development index formed. In highly developed group five districts were included like Bangalore (R), Kolar, Shimoga, Bangalore and Dakshina Kannada, in moderately developed group 12 districts were included like Mandya, Mysore, Chitradurga, Hassan, Bellary, Raichur, Tumkur, Chickmangalore, Gulbarga, Uttar Kannada, Belgaum and Kodagu and in low developed group remaining 3 districts were included like Bijapur, Bidar and Dharwad. With this optimistic scenario, priority should be given to improve major development indicators and there is need to undertake developmental measures in low developed and other moderately developed districts to reduce regional disparity in the state."