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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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    An analytical study on impact of WTO on agricultural trade in India
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2019-12) Kavita; Mehta, V P
    The study on “An analytical study on impact of WTO on agricultural trade in India” was done with the following objectives: (1) To study the trends of agricultural trade in India during Pre and Post-WTO regime (2) To compute the terms of trade in Indian agriculture (3) To examine the comparative advantage in India‟s agricultural trade (4) To study the instability of India‟s agricultural trade and suggest appropriate policy measures for improving the agricultural trade. The present study was based on secondary data collected from the various published sources, viz., various issues of hand book of RBI, FAO Trade year Book, Statistical Abstract in India, indiastat.com, FAOSTAT etc. The data were grouped into two periods (Pre-WTO and Post-WTO) depending upon the formation of world trade organization and its effect on export and import of agricultural sector, Period-I is characterized by impact of world trade organization on agricultural trade before formation of world trade organization and ranged from 1975 to1994 and Period-II ranged from 1995 to 2015 which is the Post-WTO period. India became a member of WTO on 1st January 1995 and it was the first multilateral agreement, meant to curb unfair practices in agricultural trade and set off the process of reforms in the agricultural sector. A decreasing trend was observed in agricultural export share of India in world‟s agricultural export during pre- WTO period and an increasing trend during post-WTO period whereas India‟s import share showed reverse trend. Agricultural export share in national export has been showing decreasing trend during pre as well as post-WTO period. Similarly agricultural import share in national import has been showing decreasing trend during pre and post-WTO period. Terms of trade of agricultural sector of India in quantity as well as value terms were decline during pre-WTO period and intensified during post-WTO period. Indian agricultural sector shows trade surplus during pre-WTO period as well as post-WTO period. India has gained comparative advantage in export of cereals, pulses, spices and cash crops and comparative disadvantage in oilseeds, dairy products and eggs, meat and meat preparation whereas mixed result observed in case of fruits and vegetables export. Agricultural trade and national trade were stable during pre-WTO period as compared to post-WTO period.
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    Impact of government intervention on sugar prices in India: An economic analysis
    (CCSHAU, 2015) Kavita; Grover, R.K.
    The study on “Impact of government intervention on sugar prices in India: An economic analysis” was done with the following objectives: (1)To analyze the trends in trade and prices of sugar (2)To study the impact of pricing policy on domestic prices of sugar (3)To suggest measures to stabilize the sugar prices. The present study is based on secondary data collected from the various published and unpublished sources, viz. various issues of Cooperative Sugar, Indian Sugar, Published by Indian Sugar Mills Association, Statistical Abstract in India, Indian Agriculture in Brief and Agriculture Prices in India etc. Data on various aspects including domestic prices of sugar, production of sugar and sugarcane, prices of sugarcane, consumption of sugar, stocks of sugar, quantity of sugar exported and sugar imported for the period 1947-48 to 2013-14 were collected. To determine the trends in trade and prices of sugar, linear growth rates were calculated by fitting linear equation using data on prices, export and import. Multiple regression function was used to ascertain the impact of pricing policy on domestic prices of sugar. The coefficient of variation were 30.22, 35.39, 42.53, and 105.89 per cent during period-I, period-II, period-III and period-IV, respectively indicating that stability in the sugar prices was maximum during period-I. Linear growth rates were calculated to be 5.16, 4.98, 4.80 and 4.71 during period-III, period-I, period-IV and period-II respectively. The coefficients of variation and linear growth rates of sugar export from India during selected periods was calculated to be 176.18 per cent, 144.02 per cent, 141.03 per cent and 89.95 per cent during period-IV, period-I, period-III and period-II respectively indicating that the variability was maximum during period-IV. The linear growth rate was reported maximum during period-I followed by 13.78 per cent per annum, 5.20 per cent per annum and -1.56 per cent per annum during period-III, period-IV, and period-II. Positive linear growth rates in imports were observed for all the four periods under study except for period-I where the imports were found to decline at an annual growth rate of 9.55 per cent per annum. The increased sugar production had a negative impact on price of sugar. Positive and significant impact of sugarcane price was observed for all periods under study.