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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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    Performance of barley varieties under Populus deltoides based agroforestry system
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2021-08) Ashish Kumar; Ahlawat, K.S.
    The present investigation entitled “Performance of different barley varieties under Populus deltoides based agroforestry system” was carried out at the research area of Department of Forestry, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar during 2019-20. The performance of five barley varieties (BH 946, BH 959, BH 393, BH 885 and BH 902) grown under poplar plantation and as sole crop were examined to ascertain the effect of environment on growth, physiology, yield attributes and yield. The various growth, physiological and yield attributing parameters of different barley varieties were observed significantly higher in sole barely crop (devoid of trees) than under poplar plantation except chlorophyll content, relative water content, relative stress injury, canopy temperature depression. The plant population/m2 , number of effective tillers/m2 and test weight of variety BH 885 was maximum, however yield of BH 885 was lesser than other barley varieties (BH 946, BH 393 and BH 902). A significant reduction was observed in yield of different barley varieties under poplar plantation. The maximum reduction of 23.39 % was observed in variety BH 959 followed by BH 885 (21.34 %), BH 902 (18.26 %), BH 393 (16.33 %), and it was minimum in variety BH 946 (15.19 %). The B:C ratio was maximum in BH 946 (1.22) followed by BH 393 (1.12), BH 902 (1.11), BH 885 (0.96) and minimum in BH 959 (0.89) under poplar plantation. Soil pH and EC were decreased more significantly under poplar plantation than sole barley crop. A significant increase in soil organic carbon, available N, P, K and DTPA extractable micronutrients (Zn, Cu, Mn and Fe) was observed at all depths (0-15, 15- 30 and 30-45 cm) under poplar plantation than sole crop. The total N, P K and micronutrients uptake was observed maximum in variety BH 946 and minimum in BH 959. The moisture content was observed higher under poplar plantation than sole crop at all the soil depths. Furthermore, the soil moisture content increased along with an increase in distance from the tree line. The average per cent reduction in light available to understory crops was maximum in November (60.22%) and minimum in February (35.62%). The temperature was observed slightly lesser under poplar plantation than open environment (devoid of trees), however a reverse pattern was observed in case of relative humidity.