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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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    Effect of herbicides, organic wastes and seasonal variations on growth parameters and fecundity of E.fetida
    (CCSHAU,HiSAR, 2020-06) Anshu; Dharambir Singh
    Earthworms are major contributors to soil biodiversity; they are basic driver of abiotic and biotic soil properties,therefore also known as major ecosystem engineers in terrestrial soils due to their contribution in pedogenesis. E. fetida minimizes the pollution danger caused by organic wastes degradation and internationally used as reference animal for toxicity tests. Environmental variations in temperature and organic waste affect the respiration, metabolism, growth parameters and reproductive potential of earthworms. Use of agrochemicals like pesticides, herbicides and inorganic fertilizers on large scale to enhance agriculture production have negative effects on earthworms and they are killed as non targeted organisms. Non judicious use of agrochemicals could induce the damage at genetic level, disruption in enzyme activities, reduction in survival, reproduction and growth rate and ultimately decrease in the total earthworm biomass. The present study was carried out to investigate the effect of herbicides, organic wastes and seasonal variations on survival, growth parameters, fecundity and immune system of E. fetida. Different doses of herbicides viz. Pendimethalin and Glyphosate were used individually and in combinations. Survival and fecundity were affected and minimum number of survived adult earthworm and cocoon collected were 17.6±0.33 and 19.6±0.66, respectively in worms treated with Pendimethalin+Glyphosate @1.50+2.50 μl/kg after 90th day of experiment. Similarly, minimum body weight (0.40±0.06 gram) and length gain (6.56±0.34 cm) were observed in the same treatment. Immune system was also affected and significant reduction in the total number and types of coelomocytes (65.6%), eleocytes, amoebocytes-I, amoebocytes-II, granulocytes-I and granulocytes- II was recorded in worms exposed to Pendimethalin+ Glyphosate @1.50+2.50μl/kg. Different season and substrates significantly affected the growth and survival of earthworms. Mixed substrate (Cow+ Buffalo dung) among the three was found most appropriate for rearing earthworms and maximum survived adult worms, cocoons count, length and body weight was 48, 69.6, 79 cm and 0.82gms, respectively during summer season. Buffalo dung was more suitable in summer season whereas, cow dung in winter.
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    Drudgery of women in paddy cultivation
    (CCSHAU, 2015) Anshu; Varma, S. K.
    Women play a significant and crucial role in agricultural development and allied fields. It is most unfortunate that the role of women in agriculture has not yet been highlighted in India. They still remain as invisible workers. It has been observed that more than 75 percent women are involved in activities like winnowing, weeding, grading, threshing and cleaning of field farm operations. The physical strain of female farmers seems to be too high because of heavy work tasks of various activities done by them in agriculture and allied field. The study entitled, “Drudgery of Women in Paddy Cultivation” was conducted by covering Kurukshetra district, study sample was 120 couples of various socio-economic status involved in paddy cultivation operations. Findings of the study revealed that majority of the decisions related to farm were taken by husbands only, decisions related to home were taken jointly by both husband and wife. Majority of the decision related to religious ritual were taken jointly by both husband and wife and majority of the decisions related to finance were taken by husband only. The knowledge of the respondents regarding modern paddy cultivation operation was low in Ladwa Block. The study revealed that the average workload of men and women of low socio-economic strata were higher than those of medium and high socio-economic strata, in most of the operations. It may therefore, be inferred that landless women and men performed more work in paddy cultivation than the women and men of medium and high socio-economic strata. On an average, women devote more time in household activities irrespective of their socio-economic strata. Four operations viz; transplanting, uprooting of seedlings, threshing and harvesting are such which are performed by men and women both. The heavy pre-occupations in these four operations of paddy cultivation have resulted in much higher contribution of labour by women than men. Most drudgery prone tasks or operations are performed by women. The results although appear to lend support that most drudgery ridden tasks are assigned to women because of the male dominated social order. The total drudgery taken up by women was almost equal to men. Thus, it may be inferred that women more drudgery prone operation are performed almost equally by women. Profile of the respondents indicate that different socio-economic variables like age, caste, education, occupation, land holding showed significant relationship with involvement pattern and drudgery of the respondents.