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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 × End date: 2007 × Start date: 2007 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    An Economic analysis of garlic production and marketing in Karnal District of Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2007) Karambir Singh; Arjun Singh
    The study was undertaken in Karnal district of Haryana with the objectives (i) To work out the costs and returns of garlic production (ii) To calculate the marketing costs and margins (iii) To study the fluctuations in the prices of garlic. The total cost of cultivation of garlic was found rupees 39,891 per acre. The returns over variable cost were rupees 36942. The net returns after deducing all costs were observed rupees 22,656. The cost of production per quintal was calculated as Rs. 1,099.5. It was quite a remunerative crop. The producer’s share was revealed 68.41 percent of total consumer’s price. Quite a lot went to intermediaries as margins of rupees 495 (19.64 per cent) excluding costs. The seasonal indices of price and arrivals were calculated using 12 months moving average method. The highest price received was in October whereas lowest price indices was seen in January. The increasing trends in prices and arrivals were observed over 15 year period from 1991 to 2005 year. Exponential function was preferred over linear function for better fit. The garlic crop being remunerative needed promotion by all means.
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    Agro-processing of commercial crops in western Haryana-an economic analysis
    (CCSHAU, 2007) Deepak Singh; Malik, Dharmpal
    Processing of farm products offers great scope, conversion of farm produce to the consumer commodity and in process reduces the wastage, increasing shelf-life, resulting in value addition and higher income transfer to the farmer. The present investigation is based on the time series data pertaining to area, production, yield and market arrivals of major crops scanned from published sources. The information with regards to machinery & equipments, labour, various inputs like raw material, oil & greasing, electricity/fuel, packaging & miscellaneous etc., outputs, input-output prices and constraints encountered in processing of agricultural produce was collected from sixty agro-processors from the Hisar and Bhiwani districts of Haryana state through personal interviewing them. Appropriate analytical tools and techniques were employed to draw meaningful inferences from the study. The results reveal that area twisted towards more remunerative crops wheat, paddy, cotton, rapeseed-mustard and sugarcane in Haryana state. The crop acreage shifted towards wheat, cotton and rapeseed-mustard in Bhiwani district while there was a shift in area towards wheat, paddy, cotton, rapeseed-mustard and sugarcane. The area under gram, other pulses, and coarse cereals was gradually replaced by profitable and less risky crops. Production of wheat, paddy, cotton, rapeseed-mustard increased in the study area as a composite effect of increased area and enhance productivity. The yield of almost crops registered increase over the time period due to evolution and cultivation of high yielding varieties, use of improved farm practices, use of chemical fertilizers, and efficient use of available irrigation water and mechanization of farm operation. The increased production of wheat, paddy, cotton and rapeseed-mustard resulted into increase in their market arrivals. The value of Benefit-cost ratio calculated of processing units of commercial crops i.e. cotton, rapeseed-mustard and gram was more than one. It indicates the economics viability of processing units in the study area. The break-even analysis also indicates that all processing units were operating more than the break-even quantity. The cotton, gram and rapeseed-mustard processing units utilized about 26, 34 and 74 percent of their plant capacity to the maximum extent. Among selected processing units, the cotton processing unit provides maximum employment of skilled labour and casual labour in the study area. The major problems encountered by the agro-processing units were getting no-objection certificate, license from Govt. department, difficulties in getting power connection, higher rate of interest and inadequate amount of credit, irregular supply of raw material, higher marketing charges, higher rate of electricity/fuel charges, lack of technical manpower and under utilization of installed capacity of the unit. First Govt. should take necessary step to mitigate the constraints of agro-processing units and encourage the establishment of processing units in the rural area through providing some incentives to absorb surplus rural work force.
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    Economic analysis of marketing and consumption pattern of cut flowers in Gurgaon district (Haryana)
    (CCSHAU, 2007) Anil Kumar; Kuldeep Kumar
    Flowers symbolize beauty, purity, tranquility, honesty and divinity. Offering of flower is a sign of reverence. It is source of inspiration for poets, artists and lovers of all ages. Many romances are interwoven around flowers. Fascinating colours and fragrance of flowers have leads the children into the world of wonders and magic. Women find great pride in adoring flowers. Flowers not only have greats importance in worshipping, decoration, garlanding and place beautification but it also provides good returns to the growers. Therefore, the study on an economic analysis of marketing and consumption patterns of cut flowers in Gurgaon distt. (Haryana) was undertaken with following specific objectives such as (i) to examine the marketing and consumption pattern of cut flower, (ii) to estimate marketing costs and margins of cut flowers through different channels and (iii) to identify the constraints in production and marketing of cut flower. The data on cost of production were collected from the 60 selected farmers scattered in thirty villages of Gurgaon district. The data on marketing aspects were also collected from the farmers, commission agent, retailer and other engaged in cut flower marketing. Primary data were used for attaining the objectives of the study undertaken. The data collected on production and marketing of cut flowers were tabulated and analyzed for estimation of cost of production, marketing costs and margins. The study revealed that a net return comes out to be Rs. 296970 per acre in case of gladiolus followed by rose (stick) Rs. 265995, rose (loose) Rs. 172416, chrysanthemum Rs. 72461 and marigold Rs. 69306 per acre respectively. Further, the benefit cost ratios of 1:4.19 in case of marigold followed by chrysanthemum 1:4.21, gladiolus 1:2.85, rose (loose) 1:1.92 and rose (stick) 1:1.82 were observed. Thus, it may be concluded that cut flowers is a economically profitable proposition. While, comparing the results for both channels [Channel-I producer-commission agent/broker-retailer-consumer and channel-II – producer-consumer], it was explicit that the producers share in consumer’s rupee was observed more in channel-II because no marketing expenses were incurred by the producer and owing to absence of intermediaries. The consumption pattern of cut flowers indicated that maximum share of consumption of gladiolus goes for export i.e. 54.19 per cent followed by chrysanthemum 48.61 per cent, rose (loose) 40.10 per cent and rose (stick) 36.54 per cent respectively. In case of marigold, 35.25 per cent of total quantity consumed was used for garland purpose. Major problems faced by the cut flower growers in production and marketing were non-availability of subsidies on planting materials, lack of adequate canal irrigation facilities, lack of high yielding varieties, lack of processing facilities, lack of exporting agencies purchase from the formers, lack of organization among producers, lack of storage facility and lower price of produce. The study emphasized the need to develop the proper marketing and financing infrastructure and processing facilities before its cultivation is popularized on a large scale in the state.
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    An Economic analysis of production and marketing of Bt-cotton in Haryana and Karnataka
    (CCSHAU, 2007) Shiva Kumar; Mehta, V.P.
    Cotton is India’s major commercial crop covering about 9.3 million hectares of area, ranking first in the world. It ranks third in the world in production with 2.51 million tonnes. In India, during 2005-06 Bt-cotton was grown on 9 lakh hectares and 100 per cent increase is expected in 2006- 07 according to International Service for the Acquisition of Agri.-Biotech application (ISAAA). However, the productivity (300 kg/ha) of non Bt-cotton in the country is considerably low. The major reason for this is due to damage caused by insect-pests, notably Helicoverpa armigera, commonly referred to as American bollworm. Meanwhile with the advance of technology biotechnological tools came handy in transferring pest resistance genes in cotton. Bt cotton has the gene from the soil bacteria, Bacillus thuringiensis, to effectively control the bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera. On the one hand there were hopes that Bt cotton would help reduce the pesticide use, increase the yield and make the cultivation of cotton more economical and environmental friendly, and on the other hand, there were serious apprehensions that this would be used to increased pest resistance, antibiotic resistance, increased genetic pollution, destruction of biodiversity and perpetual dependence on trans-national agrochemical and seed companies. Visualizing the above constraints and importance of Bt cotton in both the states the present study was under taken with the following objectives: i) To study the comparative economics of Bt and American cotton cultivation, ii) To examine the marketing pattern, costs and margins through different channels and iii) To study the constraints in production and marketing. To derive the inferences of the study, the primary data were collected from 120 farmers i.e. 60 each from Haryana and Karnataka acted as ultimate unit of the sample. The required data pertaining to marketing pattern, costs and margin were collected from 10 respondents from the main markets situated in the study area and used in the analysis by using simple tabular analysis. The average total cost of cultivation per acre of American cotton was Rs. 11862 and Rs. 10186 and Bt-cotton was Rs. 14478 and Rs. 11772, in Haryana and Karnataka, respectively. The rental value of land, the harvesting/picking charges and plant protection charges were the main items of cost in American cotton but in case of Bt-cotton plant protection charges were replaced by seed cost in both the states. The gross returns obtained from American cotton was Rs. 13890 and Rs. 12866 and Bt-cotton was Rs. 17400 and Rs. 14467 in Haryana and Karnataka, respectively. The comparative analysis revealed significant difference in yield and gross returns among the two states. The Haryana state faired better over Karnataka. Growing of Btcotton found to be profitable over American cotton among both the states. The study of marketing pattern of Bt-cotton revealed that 15 per cent of total producers partially sold 4.77 per cent of the total production within the villages itself and remaining 95.23 per cent of the produce was sold in the market. In the study, three marketing channels i.e. producerà ginning mill, producerà wholesalerà ginning mill and producerà commission agentà ginning mill were identified. The channel-I was found to be more efficient with farmers, receiving highest share in miller’s price followed by channel-II and channel-III in both the states. The main production constraints noticed were non-availability of adequate good quality seed, non-availability of labour, unfavourable climatic condition, lack of technical knowledge and non-availability good quality insecticides/ pesticides. The major marketing constraints were low price of Bt-cotton produce in market, mixing of Bt-cotton and non-Bt-cotton, lack of extension and marketing services and non-availability of adequate processing units/ mills.