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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: Eric Manzi × End date: 2014 × Start date: 2012 × Thesis Type: M.Tech ×
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    Rain water harvesting and recycling for enhancing water productivity in dryland areas
    (CCSHAU, 2013) Eric Manzi; Sidhpuria, M.S.
    Water is becoming a scarce commodity in dryland areas, the demands of water increase day by day, rain water harvesting is a technique practiced in arid and semi arid regions based on runoff collection and storing to overcome the shortage of water. Therefore, this study about rain water harvesting and recycling for enhancing water productivity in dryland areas was conducted at Dryland Research Farm, CCS HAU, Hisar. The major objectives of the study were to quantify water balance and runoff harvested to the farm pond, establishment of rainfall runoff relationship and determination of the effect of stored rainwater to mustard and chickpea crops. Daily rainfall, evaporation and change of water level in a pond were recorded to determine the seepage in a pond and runoff generated from the rooftop, fields and directly on the pond from June to August, 2013. The crop parameters also were recorded during crop growth season for irrigated and non-irrigated mustard and chickpea. The study revealed that a total of 1396.31 m 3 of runoff was generated during the study period from field, rooftop and directly rainfall on the pond and water use efficiency of mustard was higher than chickpea crop.
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    Rain water harvesting and recycling for enhancing water productivity in dryland areas
    (CCSHAU, 2013) Eric Manzi; Sidhpuria, M.S.
    Water is becoming a scarce commodity in dryland areas, the demands of water increase day by day, rain water harvesting is a technique practiced in arid and semi arid regions based on runoff collection and storing to overcome the shortage of water. Therefore, this study about rain water harvesting and recycling for enhancing water productivity in dryland areas was conducted at Dryland Research Farm, CCS HAU, Hisar. The major objectives of the study were to quantify water balance and runoff harvested to the farm pond, establishment of rainfall runoff relationship and determination of the effect of stored rainwater to mustard and chickpea crops. Daily rainfall, evaporation and change of water level in a pond were recorded to determine the seepage in a pond and runoff generated from the rooftop, fields and directly on the pond from June to August, 2013. The crop parameters also were recorded during crop growth season for irrigated and non-irrigated mustard and chickpea. The study revealed that a total of 1396.31 m 3 of runoff was generated during the study period from field, rooftop and directly rainfall on the pond and water use efficiency of mustard was higher than chickpea crop.