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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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    Migration Behaviour of Rural Youth in Haryana: A Critical Evaluation
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-09) Maurya, Abhilash Singh; Malik, Joginder Singh
    The study was conducted in Hisar and Bhiwani districts of Haryana. Two blocks were selected from each district. Sixteen revenue villages at the rate of four from each block were selected. Six fully migrated and six partially migrated rural youth were purposively identified from each of the selected revenue villages. In addition, six non migrant rural youth and six farm households from each revenue villages were also selected. Thus, total of 384 respondents were considered for the study. The significant findings are given here under. More than two-fifth (44.27%) of the rural youth were found to be in the age category of 21-25 years. All the respondents had education ranging from middle to college level. Among the fully migrated rural youth, 64.58 per cent of the respondents were wage earners. Among the partially migrated ones, more than three-fifth (61.45%) were engaged in agriculture on seasonal basis. Nearly half (45.00%) of the respondents possessed small size farm holdings. Majority (87.50%) of the respondents possessed farm skills and almost two-third (68.230%) of them possessed non-farm skills. Approximately 57.00 per cent of the respondents had prior migration experience. More than 77.00 per cent of the respondents possessed moderate to high level of economic motivation. Nearly four-fifth (79.69) per cent of the respondents were belonged to medium to high levels of achievement motivation. The fully migrated rural youth possessed a fairly moderate risk orientation than their counterparts. Almost two- third (63.02%) of the respondents were found to be highly self-reliant. Nearly three-fourth of the rural youth having a less to moderately favourable attitude towards agriculture. Income expectancy, comfort expectancy, stimulation expectancy and affiliation expectancy had shown positive significant contribution with attitude of rural youth towards agriculture at one per cent level of probability. Age, Educational status, farm size, non-farm skills, proximity to town, prior migration experience, economic motivation, risk orientation, self-confidence and self-reliance had shown positive significant contribution with the migration behavior at one per cent level of probability. Lacks of remunerative prices for farm produce (97.39%), lack of finance (81.77%) were the major constraints perceived to be active in agriculture by the respondents. Training on entrepreneurial skill development (84.59%), training on effective farm management (82.29%) were the most preferred empowerment needs on technological domain. Creation of credit and loan scheme for youth in agriculture (94.27%), formation of farm youth self-help groups (91.15%) were the most required social empowerment needs.
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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.