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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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Author: Anju × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2010 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Gender Differentials Among Rural Households in Socio-Economic Perspective
    (CCSHAU, Hisar, 2019-07) Anju; Dahiya, Rajesh
    Present study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state in randomly selected two blocks. Total 180 rural households (i.e. 60 from each small, medium and large land holding category) from four villages selected randomly. A set of Independent variables and six dependent variables viz. sex ratio, education status, health status, economic participation, political/social participation and decision making were selected. Socio-personal and economic profile of the respondents revealed that most of the respondents were in 38-47 years age group belonged to general caste, illiterate having nuclear and small sized family, farming occupation, below 1 lakh annual income of head of household & above 4 lakh annual family income. Overall sex ratio was 760/1000, 842/1000 and 790/1000 across land holding category. Female school dropouts were more as compared to male, truancy and financial constraints were the main reasons for school dropout. Drudgery related problems were found more in females of small and medium land holding category whereas diabetes and heart diseases were reported in large land holding category. Out of 13 agricultural activities field preparation, irrigation, plant protection and marketing were done by majority of the male members whereas harvesting, threshing, picking and storage were done by female respondents and both irrespective of land holding category for economic contribution. Most of the animal husbandry activities like feeding, bedding, post parturition care, animal health, milking and milk products were done by majority of the females except breeding and marketing. Most of the decisions regarding education and career of children were taken by both male and female. Whereas decisions regarding most of the agricultural activities and animal husbandry activities were taken by males. Age, occupation of head of household, income of head of household, family occupation, size of family, total family income & social participation were positively correlated with health and education. Income of head of household and total family income were negatively and significantly associated with economic, social and political participation. Significant differences in economic participation of male and female were observed in different issues of agriculture and animal husbandry activities.
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    Isolation and characterization of zoonotic agents from field murids
    (CCSHAU, 2017) Anju; Ravikant
    Studies on the population dynamics of murids in vegetables field (bottlegourd and bittergourd) revealed that murids population was highest in bottlegourd during harvesting season (29.81%) followed by bittergourd harvesting (27.01%), bottlegourd sowing (22.77%) respectively in December, 2016. In bittergourd sowing least population (20.37%) was observed in September, 2016. Rattus rattus was the preponderant species in both crops followed by Mus musculus, Tatera indica respectively. Trap index was recorded highest in 3rd week (4.32) followed by 2nd week (3.96) and 4th week (3.55) during harvesting of bittergourd while in case of bottlegourd harvesting trap index in 3rd week (5.56) which was followed by 2nd week (4.01) and 4th week (3.55) in December, 2016. Total eight bacterial agents were isolates from the field rodent i.e. R. rattus, M. musculus and T. indica. On the basis of secondary biochemical tests, Salmonella, Pseudomonas and Yersinia were more prevalent in murid species, captured from vegetables field. For determination of antimicrobial resistance, disc diffusion test was performed. The bacterial isolates were analyzed for antimicrobial susceptibility to thirty six antibiotics. RRA3 was found multidrug resistance (MDR) towards Cefixime, Cefpodoxime, Augmentin, Cefadroxil, Ceftriaxone, Cefpirome and Cefepime. The bacterial isolate RRA4 was found MDR against Cefepime and Ceftriaxone. The bacterial isolate RRA5 was found MDR against Cefixime, Cefpodoxime, Ceftriaxone, Rifampicin, Cefuroxime and Cefepime. Four bacterial isolates from field murids were found multi drug resistant. Hence, the need of hour is to manage them in judicious manner.
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    Effect of long-term zero tillage in wheat on physical quality indices of different textured soils and rice yield under ricewheat cropping system
    (CCSHAU, 2016) Anju; Dahiya, Rita
    The rice–wheat cropping system is one of the most prevalent cropping systems in the Indo- Gangetic Plains (IGP) of India. Intensive cultivation resulted in slowdown in productivity of rice-wheat crops due to deterioration of the soil physical condition. Keeping in view the importance of the system for food security of the country, experiments were carried out at farmers’ field during 2015-16 to investigate the effect of zero tillage on physical fertility of texturally different soils under rice-wheat system of Haryana State. The long-term zero tillage (ZT) resulted in decrease in bulk density at 15-30 cm depth as compared to conventional tillage (CT). The adoption of ZT increased saturated hydraulic conductivity and soil organic carbon content over the conventional tillage. The continuous zero tillage for 20 years in wheat resulted in increase in SOC stock in 0-30 cm soil depth by 35.2, 27.6 and 17.6 % in sandy loam, loam and clay loam soils, respectively. Soil penetration resistance was lower under zero tillage as compared to conventional tillage reducing the effect of compact plough sole on root growth in 0-30 cm soil layer in rice-wheat growing areas. The zero tillage significantly increased aeration porosity of surface soil layer. The higher values of soil moisture at field capacity in zero tillage indicated a higher volume of medium-sized water-holding pores due to favourable conditions for enhanced aggregation. The effect was, however, more pronounced in clay loam followed by loam and sandy loam soils. The zero tillage resulted in higher least limiting water range in 0-15 cm and 15-30 cm soil depths in sandy loam, loam and clay loam soils. The practice of long-term zero tillage was found effective in increasing yield of wheat in fine textured soil as compared to coarse textured.