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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 Engineering × Author: Verma, Kanishk × End date: 2014 × Start date: 2014 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Tech ×
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    Performance evaluation of water application attachment in seed drill for dryland farming
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Verma, Kanishk; Vijaya Rani
    In India around 75% of area i.e. 108 million hectares is rainfed of total 143 million hectares of arable land. Whereas, in Haryana out of 44.02 lac ha geographical area, 35.65 lac ha is a cultivable land with 8.25 lac ha is rainfed which is about 19 % of the total area. Dry lands contribute 42% of the total food grain production of the country. These areas produce 75% of pulses and more than 90% of sorghum, millet, groundnut from arid and semi-arid regions. Due to dependency on rains the sowing is often delayed in dryland area which substantially reduces the yield of crop upto 35 %. A water application attachment seed drill was designed at COAE&T CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar which provides water to seeds at time of sowing and help farmer to sow seed timely. The machine was tested and evaluated at CCS Haryana Agricultural University Farm. The performance was compared with ridger seeder, seed drill and hand plough. The effective field capacity of water application attachment on seed drill was observed 0.47 ha h-1 at average operating speed of 3.6 km hr-1. The field efficiency calculated was 73%. The water application rate of water application attachment on seed drill was fixed at 3000 l ha-1. Seed emergence per cent in water application attachment on seed drill was 8% higher than ridger seeder, 27% higher than hand plough and 16 % higher than seed drill. Number of plants per meter row length by water application attachment on seed drill was 13 %, 22 % and 18 % higher than ridger seeder, hand plough and seed drill, respectively. Number of pods per plant in water application attachment on seed drill was 8%, 11 % and 12.5% higher than ridger seeder, hand plough and seed drill, respectively. 1000 seed weight by water application attachment on seed drill was 2% higher than ridger seeder, hand plough and seed drill, respectively. Yield in water application attachment on seed drill was 15%, 24% and 27% higher than ridger seeder, hand plough and seed drill, respectively. Thus the water application attachment seed drill may be used by farmer of dryland for timely sowing of crop and increase in production may be achieved.