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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: Forestry × Author: Dalal, Virender × Start date: 1993 × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    Studies on the effect of agri-silvihorticultural system on yield and quality parameters of winter crops
    (CCSHAU, 2014) Dalal, Virender; Kaushik, J.C.
    A field experiment entitled “Study on the effect of agri-silvi-horticultural system on yield and quality parameters of winter crops”, was conducted on already established silvi-horticultural system of agro-forestry at CCS H.A.U. Regional Research Station, Bawal (Rewari) during the Rabi seasons of 2011-12 and 2012-13, in which, Dalbergia sissoo and Prosopis cineraria were taken as forest tree species and Psidium guajava and Embilica officinalis as horticulture trees planted at 6×6 m distance. Winter crops (wheat and barley) were taken in association with perennial woody plants thus forming agri-silvi-horticultural system of agro-forestry. The seeds of wheat cv. WH-711 and Barley cv. BH-393 were sown in line in interspaces. Under agri-silvi-horticultural system, there was no significant effect of woody trees on the germination of wheat, barley and oat crops as well as sole crops during both the seasons of 2011-12 and 2012-13. The number of tillers, plant height, dry weight per meter row length, yield of grains per hectare, green fodder yield and number of green leaves, fresh leaf weight and fresh stem weight per plant of sole crops were significantly higher than agri-silvi-horticulture systems. Among the agri-silvi-horticulture system, guava+kehjri exhibited the highest yield. All quality parameters viz., protein content, sedimentation value and gluten in wheat and protein content in barley, were significantly lower in crops grown as sole crop than the crops grown as intercrops with woody trees in different combinations. However, within agri-silvi-horticulture system, the quality parameters were at par during both the years of observation. The protein content in sole wheat crop was significantly lower than other treatments. Available N was highest at surface layer of guava+khejri based combination and minimum in sole wheat, barley and oat. Similar trend was observed in Available P and K also. The lowest EC in wheat, barley and oat was recorded under guava+Khejri based combinations. The organic carbon content of soil in wheat, barley and oat under agri-silvihorticulture system was significantly higher than sole wheat, barley and oat at 0-30 cm depth but it decreased with increasing soil depth. Based on two years’ average, the maximum net return was obtained when barley was intercropped with guava+khejri and the benefit: cost ratio was higher in guava+Shisham combination rather than sole cropping.