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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 Extension Education × Author: Rati Mukteshawar × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2010 ×
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    Perception and prospect for implementation of foreign direct investment (FDI) in agricultural retail sector
    (CCSHAU, 2017) Rati Mukteshawar; Shehrawat, P.S.
    This study was conducted to create awareness towards FDI in agricultural retail sector. The study was conducted in two districts of Haryana state namely, Hisar and Sonipat and a total no. of two hundred forty respondents were selected and interviewed with the help of well-structured schedule. The study revealed that majority of the respondents were of middle age group (36-50 years), educated up to post graduate, belonged to a nuclear family up to five members, performed farming and other rhan farming had land holding up to 5 acres. The findings revealed that the overall awareness towards FDI in agricultural retail sector among the producers (20.06%), retailers (22.09%) and consumers (23.45%) were found low aware as per their responses. The study shows that producers (23.06%), retailers (28.16%) and consumers (28.47%) had low level of perception regarding FDI was found Major problems of respondents in conventional markets were ‘cost of cultivation increasing day by day (1.62), Lack of cold storage’ (1.21) and ‘Unavailability of agro-products in off-season’ (1.56) on other side in unconventional markets ‘Lack of awareness among producers’ (2.18) ‘Lack of awareness to market information’ (1.19) and Less or no availability of FDI stores’ (1.25) were found very serious problems with their weighted mean scores. Results pertaining overall prospects of FDI in agricultural retail sector was low. 23.45 percent in producers, Retailers had 28.47 percent and in consumers were found 19.27 percent.