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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 Meteorology × End date: 2015 × Start date: 2015 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Agro-Ecological Zoning of Haryana in context of climate change and post-harvest agriculture avenues
    (CCSHAU, 2015) Saharan, Vinod Kumar; Ram Niwas
    The present investigation was carried out on thermal, humidity, rainfall, moisture index, soil texture and LGP maps were prepared in the GIS environment using Arc Info 10.1. Agro-ecological zones and sub-zones were delineated by logical combination of soil texture layer in addition to all the spatial input layers (moisture index, LGP and soil layer). Maximum temperature showed decreasing trend (-1.90C/100 year) where as minimum temperature showed increasing trend (2.170C/100 year) mean air temperature showed increasing trend (0.6980C/100 year). Morning humidity showed increasing trend at all the seven stations. Similar trend was also observed in evening humidity at all stations except Bawal where it showed decrease trend. Mean relative humidity showed increasing trend at all stations. Rainfall showed increasing trend (2.72mm/100 year) at all the stations in Haryana except Karnal. Haryana was divided in to 4 climate zones based on moisture index. Eight major and 28 sub agro-ecological zones were delineated by overlapping of climate, LGP and soil digital layers in Haryana. A shift in climatic zones of about 60 km was observed. Crop growing period of 3 to 4 mounts is available in zone- 1(Arid and less than 90 days LGP) and zone-2(Arid and 90-120 days LGP), 4 to 6 months growing period was available in Zone-3(Semi arid and 120-150 days LGP) and zone-4 (Semi arid and 150-180 days LGP), 6 to 7 months growing period is available zone-5 (Semi arid and 180-210 days LGP) and zone-6(Semi arid and more than 210 days LGP). More than 7 months growing period were available in Zone-7 (Dry sub humid and more than 210 days LGP) and Zone-8(Moist sub humid and more than 210 days LGP). Zone-1 is suitable for mono cropping systems. Zone-2 is suitable for single long duration crop. Zone-3 to zone-6 was suitable for double cropping systems. Zone-7 and zone-8 are suitable for multi- cropping systems. Four potential processing areas were identified for establishment of processing units for processing of farm production based on the availability of raw agricultural products cultivated in surrounding area due to suitability of agro-ecological zones.
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    Fruit-ecological zoning of north-west India in context to climate change using GIS
    (CCSHAU, 2015) Jangra, Mohan Singh; Ram Niwas
    The present investigation was carried out on meteorological data of more than 30 years of 22 stations in north-west India. Annual and seasonal climatic trends were assessed through simple linear regression between weather parameters at hills, plains and north-west India and tested through F-test and P-levels. Thermal, humidity, rainfall, moisture index, chilling hours, growing degree days, soil texture and LGP maps were prepared in the GIS environment using ArcMap 10.1. The slope of mean temperature was found negative for Srinagar, Ranichauri, Delhi and Narnaul and positive for all the remaining stations. Annual temperature was increasing at the rate of 2.5.0°C/100years, 1.2°C/100years and 1.5°C/100 years in hills, plains and north-west India. The maximum temperature was decreasing 2oC/100 year in plains, 0.3oC/100 years in north-west India but an increasing trend of 4.4oC/100 years in hills. The increasing trend was higher in minimum temperature (1.6°C/100years) than maximum temperature (0.9°C/100years) in north-west India. The increasing trend in mean temperature during effective growing season was 1.7°C/century, 1.2°C/century and 1.3°C/century and during dormant season were 3.4oC/century, 0.6oC/century and 0.4oC/century in hills, plains and north-west India, respectively. Annual rainfall was showing an increasing trend of 551, 158 and 582 mm/100 years for hills, plains and north-west India. The rainfall was increasing with 33.8, 27.7 and 45.6 mm/decade during effective growing season and with 5.7, 10.7 and 68.6 mm/decade during dormant season in hills, plains and north-west India. The annual PET was increasing with 79, 197 and 165 mm/100 years for hills, plains and north-west, respectively. The average relative humidity was increasing at the rate of 24%, 15% and 43%/100 years in hills, plains and north-west India. The chilling hours were decreasing with 838, 9 and 222 hours /100 years but GDD was increasing with 85.62, 42.83 and 26.79GDD/decade in hills, plains and north-west India, respectively. The rate of change of annual moisture index was negative for hills (-18.5%/100 years) and north-west India (-1%/100 years) but positive for plains (6.1%/100 years). Fruit area was increasing at the rate of 36.15 thousand ha/year but productivity was decreasing at the rate of -0.04MT/year in hills. A climate shift was observed fromNWto SW when it is compared with old climate map prepared in 1992 of north-west India as themoist sub humid zone shifted from sub Himalaya towards south-west. Five soil textural classes, ten agro-climatic zone, thirty six agro-ecological sub-zones and fruit-ecological zones were delineated by logical combination of soil texture layer and other required spatial input layers (moisture index, LGP and soil, temperature, rainfall chilling hour layer). Suitable fruit ecological zones were delineated for different fruit (Mango, Guava, Ber, Citrus, Plum, Litchi, Peach, Pear, Apricot and Apple) crops.