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Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar

Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University popularly known as HAU, is one of Asia's biggest agricultural universities, located at Hisar in the Indian state of Haryana. It is named after India's seventh Prime Minister, Chaudhary Charan Singh. It is a leader in agricultural research in India and contributed significantly to Green Revolution and White Revolution in India in the 1960s and 70s. It has a very large campus and has several research centres throughout the state. It won the Indian Council of Agricultural Research's Award for the Best Institute in 1997. HAU was initially a campus of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. After the formation of Haryana in 1966, it became an autonomous institution on February 2, 1970 through a Presidential Ordinance, later ratified as Haryana and Punjab Agricultural Universities Act, 1970, passed by the Lok Sabha on March 29, 1970. A. L. Fletcher, the first Vice-Chancellor of the university, was instrumental in its initial growth.

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Subject: Agricultural Economics × Author: Amirtharaj, S × End date: 2006 × Start date: 2000 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Perspective of basmati rice cultivation in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2005) Amirtharaj, S; Chauhan, R.S.
    The present study was undertaken to study the trend in area and production of basmati rice in Haryana, to work out the comparative economics of basmati & non-basmati rice and constraints in production and export of basmati rice. Two districts namely; Karnal and Kurukshetra which are having higher area under rice production were purposively selected. Two blocks namely; Taraori and Thanesar from Karnal and Kurukshetra respectively were randomly selected. Four villages namely; Janzeri & Shamgarh from Taraori; Jyothisar & Kirmath from Kurukshetra were randomly selected. 50 farmers from each block who cultivating all the three varieties namely; basmati, superfine non-basmati and coarse & medium grain varieties were included in the sample. Thus making a total sample of 100 respondents. Primary as well as secondary data was collected to achieve the objectives of the study. Primary data was collected with the help of a pretested interview schedule which included various aspects of cost of cultivation of basmati, superfine non-basmati and coarse & medium grain rice varieties and constraints in production of basmati rice. The primary data from exporters and millers were also collected to know the constraints in export of basmati rice. Secondary data to find the trend in area and production of basmati rice was collected from Directorate of Agriculture, Panchkula. Compound growth model was used to calculate the trend in area and production of basmati. Tabulation was used to work out the comparative economics of basmati, superfine non-basmati and coarse & medium grain paddy varieties. The result reveals that the trend in area and production of basmati rice was slowly increasing over the period of thirteen years at the compound growth rate of 5.64% and 6.67% per annum respectively. But the observed values of area and production of basmati rice were highly uncertain during the same periods. The comparative economics of basmati, superfine non-basmati and coarse & medium grain paddy reveals that basmati was most profitable variety than other varieties. The basmati having net return of Rs 3686 per hectare followed by Rs. 2867 and Rs. 2354 from coarse & medium grain and superfine non-basmati paddy respectively. The same pattern of return was observed in return over variable cost. Interview with farmers, exporters and millers reveals that market price fluctuations, low yield, lodging etc. were the major constraints faced by farmers. High international price fluctuations, processing cost, transport expenses, lack of value added products etc. were the major constraints faced by the exporters.