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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: Farm, Machinery and Power × Author: Parveen × Start date: 2010 × Thesis Type: M.Tech. ×
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    Energetics and techno-economic feasibility of paddy straw management technologies
    (CCSHAU, 2018) Parveen; Jain, Mukesh
    Paddy straw management using different combinations of machinery i.e. T1 = Combine harvester with SMS (CSMS) + Zero till drill, T2 = CSMS + Spatial till drill, T3 = CSMS + Happy seeder, T4 = CSMS + Reversible mould board plough + Rotavator + Seed drill, T5 = CSMS + Rotavator (2 pass) + Seed drill (SD), T6 = CSMS + Disc harrow (3 pass) + Planker + SD, T7 = CSMS + Rotavator + Manual broadcasting + Rotavator, T8 = Traditional combine (TC) + Stubble shaver + Straw baler + Disc harrow (2 pass) + Planker + SD, T9 = TC + Stubble shaver + Hay Rake + Straw baler + Disc harrow (2 pass) + Planker + SD, T10 = TC + Traditional straw removing method + Disc harrow (2 pass) + Planker + SD with the objective of quantifying the energy requirement and to evaluate techno-economic feasibility. From the experiments, it is concluded that the specific energy consumption and unit cost of operation were in the range of 25 to 28 MJ q-1 and 63 to 68 Rs. q-1 for treatment T1, T2 and T3 respectively. Under the treatment T10, the specific energy consumption and unit cost of operation were 38 MJ q-1 and 74 MJ q-1, respectively. Under the treatment T4, T6, T7, and T8 the specific energy consumption was in the range of 50 MJ q-1 and unit cost of operation was in the range of 112-135 Rs. q-1. Highest specific energy consumption (58.15 MJ q-1) in treatment T5 and highest unit cost of operation (140.52 Rs. q-1) was found in treatment T9.