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Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar

After independence, development of the rural sector was considered the primary concern of the Government of India. In 1949, with the appointment of the Radhakrishnan University Education Commission, imparting of agricultural education through the setting up of rural universities became the focal point. Later, in 1954 an Indo-American team led by Dr. K.R. Damle, the Vice-President of ICAR, was constituted that arrived at the idea of establishing a Rural University on the land-grant pattern of USA. As a consequence a contract between the Government of India, the Technical Cooperation Mission and some land-grant universities of USA, was signed to promote agricultural education in the country. The US universities included the universities of Tennessee, the Ohio State University, the Kansas State University, The University of Illinois, the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Missouri. The task of assisting Uttar Pradesh in establishing an agricultural university was assigned to the University of Illinois which signed a contract in 1959 to establish an agricultural University in the State. Dean, H.W. Hannah, of the University of Illinois prepared a blueprint for a Rural University to be set up at the Tarai State Farm in the district Nainital, UP. In the initial stage the University of Illinois also offered the services of its scientists and teachers. Thus, in 1960, the first agricultural university of India, UP Agricultural University, came into being by an Act of legislation, UP Act XI-V of 1958. The Act was later amended under UP Universities Re-enactment and Amendment Act 1972 and the University was rechristened as Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology keeping in view the contributions of Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant, the then Chief Minister of UP. The University was dedicated to the Nation by the first Prime Minister of India Pt Jawaharlal Nehru on 17 November 1960. The G.B. Pant University is a symbol of successful partnership between India and the United States. The establishment of this university brought about a revolution in agricultural education, research and extension. It paved the way for setting up of 31 other agricultural universities in the country.

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Author: Akhtar, Javeed × Start date: 2017 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Optimization of process parameters and artificial neural network modelling for high velocity hot air drying of chicken meat and quality evaluation of dried meat product
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand), 2017-01) Akhtar, Javeed; Omre, P.K.
    Chicken meat is a good source of high quality protein with all essential amino acids and low in cholesterol and it is also wonderful supply of minerals, tocopherol, fat-soluble vitamins, thiamine, and nicotinic acid. It is an important provider of essential polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially the omega (n)-3 fatty acids. The amounts of these important fatty acids can be increased more easily in chicken meat than in other livestock meats. Drying characteristics of chicken meat were studied in high velocity hot air dryer The experiments work was conducted under three different sizes (1 ,1.5 and 2 cm3), five different temperatures (45, 55, 65, 75, and 85ºC), five different air velocities (2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5 and 6.5 m/s). The five empirical models namely page’s, Logarithmic, Exponential, two term exponential and Henderson and Pabis were fitted to experimental moisture ratio data. Performance of five drying models was evaluated on the basis of coefficient of determination (R2), standard error estimation (SEE) and root mean square error (RMSE). Page’s model gave better prediction for moisture ratio. Artificial neural network model was fitted in drying experimental data and ANN modelling was performed using two hidden layers (1 and 2) and ten neurons (2, 4, 6, 8 and 10). The best architectures of ANN were found to be two hidden layers with eight neurons in first hidden layer and ten neurons in second hidden layer(4-8-10-1) for moisture content, two hidden layers with four neurons in first hidden layer and four neurons in second hidden layer (4-4-4-1) for drying rate, and two hidden layers with eight neurons in first hidden layer and eight neurons in second hidden layer(4-8-8-1) for moisture ratio. Both protein and fat content decreased with increasing temperature and samples size. Harness increased with increasing temperature and it decreased with increasing sample size. On the basis of quality characteristics, the optimum drying conditions suggested for dehydration of chicken meat were 55ºC drying air temperature and 5.5 m/s air velocity and sample size 1 cm3. Throughout storage period, vacuum packaging showed superior quality of chicken meat samples as compared to conventional packaging method.