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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: 2015 × Start date: 2010 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Economic Analysis Of Food Grain Supply, Distribution And Consumption In India
    (Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University; Hisar, 2011) Leema, Zemedu Seifu; Grover, R.K.
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    Economic analysis of production and marketing of major vegetable crops in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2015) Ajay Kumar; Pannu, R.S.
    India is the second largest producer of vegetable in the world next to China. The cauliflower, potato, onion, tomato and radish are the major vegetable crops of Haryana. The present investigation was carried out to study the growth rates, cost structure, returns, resource use efficiency, price spread, marketing efficiency and constraints in production and marketing of major vegetables. The study was conducted in Sonipat for cauliflower, Yamunanagar for potato, Ambala for onion, Karnal for tomato and Gurgaon for radish as these vegetables were selected. From each district one tehsil and two villages from each tehsil were selected on the bases of highest area. Samples of 15 farmers from each selected village were selected thereby making a sample of 150 vegetable growers. The vegetable markets of Gurgaon, Karnal, Sonipat, Yamunanagar, Panipat, Panchkula and Ambala were perposively selected as these are near to the main production area. The cauliflower was selected for Sonipat and Panipat markets, potato for Yamunanagar, onion in Ambala and Panchkula, tomato in Karnal and radish in Gurgaon market. Ten intermediaries from each market were selected randomly making a sample of 70 intermediaries. The compound growth rates of area, production and productivity in Haryana have registered significant and positive growth rate in cauliflower, potato, onion, tomato and radish. Productivity has shown positive and significant growth in Haryana for cauliflower, potato and onion. In Sonipat, Karnal and Gurgaon, area and production has shown positive and significant growth in cauliflower, tomato and radish, respectively. In Yamunanagar and Ambala, compound growth rate of area, production and productivity has shown positive and significant growth under potato and onion, respectively. The cost of cultivation of cauliflower, potato, onion, tomato and radish were higher on large farms as compared to medium & small farms. The gross returns were found higher in medium farms as compared to large and small farms. The cost of production per quintal was lower on medium farms and higher on large and small farms indicating that the medium farms were having economies of scale in production. The net income was higher on medium farms as compared to small and large farms in cauliflower, potato, onion, tomato and radish. There was no difference in marketable and marketed surplus because of perishable nature of vegetables and farmers were hard pressed by their cash needs for post-harvest immediate sale. In cauliflower, potato, onion, tomato and radish, channel-I (Producer → Commission agent cum wholesaler →Retailer →Consumer) was more efficient as it ensured higher percent share of farmer in the consumer's rupee as compared to channel-II (Producer → Village trader → Commission agent cum wholesaler →Retailer →Consumer). Major production related constraints expressed by vegetable growers were higher labour charges, unavailability of labour when needed, higher production expenditure, lack of suitable cold storage facilities, high cost of storage, lack of information about high yielding varieties and their seed/planting materials, high cost of seeds, high cost of fertilizers, non-availability of fertilizer when needed, manual weeding is time consuming and labour intensive, less effective and costly weedicides, spurious plant protection chemicals, higher prices of insecticide/pesticides and lack of credit. Major marketing related constraints expressed by vegetable growers were; Marketing problems in village: Low price/non-remunerative prices, no ready market, malpractices in weighing, lack of cooperative marketing system in village and dominance of traders in village. Marketing problems in mandi: Higher price fluctuations, Lack of market information, lack of transportation, high transportation cost, existence of large number of intermediaries in marketing process, higher margin of middlemen, lack of labour for loading and unloading, losses during transportation/transactions, unorganized marketing system. Major constraints in marketing of vegetables faced by middlemen were problem of storage facilities, lack of processing industries/units, higher price fluctuations, problem of drayage and spoilage, high cost of labour, lack of transportation facilities, high transportation cost and delay in payments.
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    An Economic Analsis Of Production And Marketing Of Cotton In Haryana
    (College Of Agriculture CCS Haryana Agricultural University : Hisar, 2010) Singh,Gulab.; Singh,Arjun.
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    Resource use efficiency in major crops in the Shiwalik foothills of Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2012) Gurnam Singh; Kuldeep Kumar
    Farming in Haryana is practiced in highly diverse agro-climatic conditions and agricultural ractices, types of inputs used etc. vary from region to region and from crop to crop. In modern agriculture, the capital intensive inputs are used which need more efficient use to lower down the cost of cultivation. The national approach in terms of agricultural development has been characterized by the collectively coupled objectives of increasing both production and productivity. Therefore, a study regarding input productivity and alternative ways to use them is highly significant. Thus, to get realistic picture on resource use efficiency, the problem must be analyzed at the individual crop level with micro level data. This study was undertaken to search out the best combination of agricultural enterprises to maximize incomes on farm by using the available resources and facilities efficiently in the study areas. Sadhaura block of Yamuna Nagar and Raipur Rani block of Panchkula District were selected purposively having largest area under maize, rice and wheat cropping pattern which comes under the Shivalik foothills of Haryana for the present study. Four villages from each block, two from plains and two from hilly area were randomly selected. Twenty five (25) farmers from each selected village were selected randomly for the purpose. In general all crops have showed that the regression coefficients for mechanical labour, human labour, seed expenditure, fertilizer, plant protection and irrigation were significant in both the districts. The sum of elasticities of production in paddy were 2.15, 1.30, 2.15 and 1.05; in maize were 1.08, 0.78, 1.55, 1.36, 0.57 and 0.58 and in wheat were 2.83, 0.28, 0.88, 3.15, 1.17 and 0.83 for both the districts, respectively which indicated that value having more than one showing increasing returns to scale and the value having less than one showing decreasing returns to scale is in operation. It is obvious that in plain and hilly areas of Yamunanager and Panchkula districts all the explanatory variables are having MVP more than arginal cost but keeping in view the higher ratio of MVP to OC in case of mechanical labour, human labour, fertilizer and irrigation more investment is to be made on these inputs. While other inputs having more than one ratio should be allocated additional investments to increase returns. The study indicated that even with the existing land resource, there is considerable scope for increasing the returns from farms by readjustment of resources. There is possibility to incur the additional investment in the inputs to achieve the calculated economic optima except seed expenditure in maize and fertilizer expenditure in Berseem crop. The analysis of the resource use efficiency of major crops in Yamuna Nagar and Panchkula districts of Haryana revealed high degree of resource use inefficiency of different magnitudes in different crops as indicated by MVP to OC ratio. Thus, there is scope to incur additional expenses on the critical inputs having more than one ratio of MVP to OC for increasing returns on the farms in the study area.
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    Economic analysis of resource conservation technologies in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2015) Mehala, Vinay; Sharma, U.K.
    A study entitled “Economic Analysis of Resource Conservation Technologies in Haryana” was conducted in two districts i.e. study of Zero Tillage technology in Ambala district and DSR technology in Kaithal. The study revealed that the was significant impact of conservation practices to save labour on manual and machine works , seed, fertilizer and irrigation water under conservational tillage than under conventional method. B:C ratio under zero tillage was 2.86 and under conventional method 2.56. Therefore, zero tillage was economically feasible. It was observed that through the zero tillage farmers could save 22% human labour, 37% machine labour, 25% seed cost and 33% irrigation water in ZT compared to CT method of wheat production and can get 3% more yield. The net returns in ZT of wheat production were higher by 4% as compared to in CT method. In case of zero seed drill system, economic efficiency measure was 0.61 as compare to 0.34 in conventional system of wheat cultivation. It was observed that farmers could save 55% human labour, 10% machine labour and 33% irrigation water in DSR as compared to transplanted rice. The gross returns were higher in TPR by 5%. But 4 % higher net returns were obtained in DSR than TPR method as cost of cultivation was 15% less in DSR.. The benefit: cost ratio of 2.13 was observed in DSR as against 1.94 in TPR method. In case of DSR system, economic efficiency measure was 0.52 as compare to 0.32 in TPR system. The results showed that DSR method of paddy cultivation was more economically efficient compared to TPR system .No subsidy on machine, lack of credit facilities and lack of money to buy new machine appeared to be main constraints in adoption of Zero tillage in wheat and DSR in paddy.
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    Relationships between Major Economic Sectors in India: A Cointegration under Vector Autoregressive Appproach
    (CCSHAU, 2015) Swati; Manocha, Veena
    In this study, the relative share of each of the sectors to the total gross domestic product both at the country level (India) and at the state level (Haryana) has been found. The time series data consists of data for the period 1950-51 to 2012-13 for India and 1966-67 to 2012-13 for Haryana. Findings have revealed that relative share of Services sector in the total gross domestic product has increased from about 32 per cent in the decade 1950-51 to 1959- 60 to about 58 per cent during the period 2010-11 to 2012-13 while that of Agriculture & Allied Activities’ has reduced from about 52 per cent to about 14 per cent in the same period. Their decadal growth trends as well as growth trends for the Pre-reform (till 1989-90) and Post-reform (1990-91 onwards) periods have also been studied. It has been found that the growth rate for the services sector almost doubled during Post-reform period for both the country and the state. Then, for the further analysis relationships between major economic sectors and some sub-sectors: Agriculture & Allied Activities, Industry (Manufacturing, construction and infrastructure) and Services, both for the country and the state have been studied using vector auto regressive (VAR) and Vector Error Correction Model (VECM). For all the classifications, in general, Agriculture & Allied Activities has been found positively linked to the construction and infrastructure and negatively linked to the Manufacturing and Services sector.