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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: 2016 × Start date: 2016 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Diversification of cropping pattern and production in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2016) Sunita; Mehta, V.P.
    Crop diversification is a strategy to maximize the use of land, water and other resources and for the overall agricultural development in the state. The present study has made an attempt to have cropping pattern, production pattern, extent of crop diversification and effect of different factors on crop diversification of different crop groups in the state with these objectives, (1) to measure the extent of crop diversification in Haryana, (2) to study crop diversification and production pattern in (3) to examine the factors effecting crop diversification. The present study is based on secondary data collected from various issues of Statistical Abstracts of Haryana and other published and unpublished sources. Compound and linear growth rates for area, production and productivity were computed. In overall period(1993-2013) area, production and productivity of foodgrains increased at a compound annual growth rate of 0.56, 2.56 and 1.93 per cent per annum while for pulses all these values were in negative. The growth rates of area for all crops except rice, wheat, barley and ultimately total cereals were in negative. The cropping pattern has skewed towards rice-wheat cultivation. From the results derived from different measures of crop diversification it was noticed that value of crop diversification index was higher in the initial years of study period among all crop groups except pulses. The decline in the growth of area for bajra and sugarcane is due to shift of area towards paddy while decrease in area of gram is due to shift of area towards wheat. Multiple regression was carried out by using composite entropy index to know the effect of different factors on crop diversification. The results has suggested that creation of basic infrastructural facilities like sustained supply of irrigation water, markets, fertilizer availability, etc. is an essential pre-requisite for creating enabling conditions for crop diversification. For achieving diversification targets, technology backup, good governance, policy development and strong extension system are required. Diversification would require fundamental changes in incentives, institutions and investments, however these changes should not be at the cost of farmers’ income.
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    Diversification of cropping pattern and production in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2016) Sunita; Mehta, V.P.
    Crop diversification is a strategy to maximize the use of land, water and other resources and for the overall agricultural development in the state. The present study has made an attempt to have cropping pattern, production pattern, extent of crop diversification and effect of different factors on crop diversification of different crop groups in the state with these objectives, (1) to measure the extent of crop diversification in Haryana, (2) to study crop diversification and production pattern in (3) to examine the factors effecting crop diversification. The present study is based on secondary data collected from various issues of Statistical Abstracts of Haryana and other published and unpublished sources. Compound and linear growth rates for area, production and productivity were computed. In overall period(1993-2013) area, production and productivity of foodgrains increased at a compound annual growth rate of 0.56, 2.56 and 1.93 per cent per annum while for pulses all these values were in negative. The growth rates of area for all crops except rice, wheat, barley and ultimately total cereals were in negative. The cropping pattern has skewed towards rice-wheat cultivation. From the results derived from different measures of crop diversification it was noticed that value of crop diversification index was higher in the initial years of study period among all crop groups except pulses. The decline in the growth of area for bajra and sugarcane is due to shift of area towards paddy while decrease in area of gram is due to shift of area towards wheat. Multiple regression was carried out by using composite entropy index to know the effect of different factors on crop diversification. The results has suggested that creation of basic infrastructural facilities like sustained supply of irrigation water, markets, fertilizer availability, etc. is an essential pre-requisite for creating enabling conditions for crop diversification. For achieving diversification targets, technology backup, good governance, policy development and strong extension system are required. Diversification would require fundamental changes in incentives, institutions and investments, however these changes should not be at the cost of farmers’ income.
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    Economic analysis of fish farming and marketing in Haryana
    (CCSHAU, 2016) Choudhary, Suraj; Pawar, Neeraj
    Fish farming play’s very important role in economic development of farmers and fishermen. It is now being paid considerable attention by the government on fish farming. There has been phenomenal achievement on production and productivity in the state and as well in country. This has been more spectacular in Haryana state, the production of fish increased from 600 tonnes in 1966-67 to 121000 tonnes in 2015-16 in Haryana. The present study was carried out with objectives to work out economics of fish farming, to study marketing channel and their efficiency and to identify constraints faced by fish farmers in production and marketing. Fishery department of Haryana is divided the state in four divisions i.e. Gurugram (Gurgaon), Rohtak, Ambala and Hisar. From each division one district were selected on the basis of highest area and fish production. District Karnal, Kaithal, Hisar and Nuh (Mewat) were selected from each division. From each selected district, ten fish farmers were selected randomly. For primary data collection a sample of 40 fish producers, 10 wholesalers and 10 retailers of market functionaries from each market. The primary data for the agriculture year 2015-16 were collected by survey method by conducting personal interviews of the selected fish farmers with the help of specially designed schedule. The overall finding reveals that the total costs of production per hectare as well as per quintal were Rs. 121869.20 and Rs. 2280.29, respectively. The gross return was estimated to Rs. 411179.50 per hectare. The overall net returns per hectare as well as per quintal were Rs. 279310.30 and Rs. 2280.29, respectively. The overall B: C ratio of fish farming was 1: 3.12 which economically more viable. The marketing efficiency of channel-I and channel-II were on average 1.36 and 4.42, respectively. Marketing efficiency for channel-III was 17.28. The channel –III was more efficient due to its very low marketing cost, but marketing of fish through this channel was disposed of on a limited scale due to lower demand. The major constraints were examined water pollution and lack of required fresh water sources (72.50 per cent), high cost of finance (67.50 per cent), lack of required credit facility (65.00 per cent), shortage of specialized labour (60.00 per cent), lack of appropriate technique for all aspect of fishery production (60.00 per cent). Main marketing problems faced by fish farmer were dependence on wholesaler/commission agent for sale (77.50 per cent), lack of processing facilities (67.50 per cent), lack of refrigerated transportation facilities (65.00 per cent), non-availability of local market for marketing their produce,(65.00 per cent), lack of cold storage facilities (62.50 per cent).
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    Growth and instability in area, production and productivity of major crops in Haryana vis-à-vis India
    (CCSHAU, 2016) Moro Seidu; Kundu, K.K.
    Haryana remains one of the food baskets in India and so is India in the world. The continuous reliance on these economies in terms of food production will depend on improving the production, productivity and the sustainability levels of the different subsectors of agriculture. However, attempts to boost agricultural production via the crop subsector have remained directionless and planless. This is because the crop subsector is continuously gradually undergoing changes which directly affect the economic performance (area, production and productivity) and predictability of the crop sector. Thus the actual state and level of the changes (trends, growth rate, fluctuations) affecting the economic performance of the crops is largely unknown. Therefore decisive approaches of strategically improving the economic performance of the crop sector remain partly inconclusive, unknown and characterized by mixed feelings and doubt. The study therefore, estimated the trend, growth and instability in area , production and productivity of major crops (wheat, paddy, cotton, pearl millet, rapeseed & mustard and sugarcane) in Haryana vis-à-vis India considering the time period 1966-67 to 2013-14, division of the entire periods into five different sub periods and the periods of pre and post reform periods. The effect of changes in area on production levels was also studied. Secondary and time series data were collected and analysed using semi-log linear function, kinked exponential growth model, Cuddy Della Valle Instability index and Boyce’s detrend measure of instability as well as simple linear model. The study identified a significant increased trends and growth in the economic performance of all the major field crops in the two study areas in the entire study period. However, an exception (decreased trend and growth) was noticed in the area of harvest of pearl millet and sugarcane for both Haryana and India. Moreover, the growth rates of economic performances of the crops were mostly higher in Haryana than in India for almost all the crops except sugarcane.The study also identified that in the five sub periods, Period II showed the greatest significant effect on the performance on the crops while Period V exhibited the least in both study areas where that of Haryana was greater than that of India. The study further isolated that, the significant trends and growth in the area of harvest and production were higher the in pre reform era than the post reform era except that of and pearl millet for both periods. However the growth rate of productivity was higher in pre reform era for wheat, paddy, oilseeds (Haryana) and sugarcane (India) relative to the post reform era in both study areas unless otherwise indicated in parenthesis. The reverse was the case for cotton, pearl millet, oilseeds (India) and sugarcane (Haryana). The study confirmed high instability in the economic performance of all the crops both in Haryana and India in the entire study period. The study established that in the five sub periods instability levels of the economic performance of the crops declined except in some few instances such as that of pearl millet in Haryana specifically in Period II and cotton and rapeseed & mustard in Period III in both study areas. The study also juxtaposed a declined in instability of the economic performance of all the crops in the pre and post reform era at state and national level excluding the area of harvest of rapeseed & mustard in the pre reform period of India. The study therefore recommends that policies should be directed to minimize area variability and yield stabilization policies should be strengthen to reduce production variability in the major crops.