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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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    Socio-Economic Factors Associated With Malnutrition Among Backward Class Children In A Vilalge Community of Haryana
    (College of Agriculture Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 2003) Kusum; Bhan, Chander
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    Generation and A lloction of Economic Resources by RuraI Women under DWCRA
    (College of Agriculture Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University Hisar, 1995) Kusum; Singal, Savita
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    Capacity-building of farm women through agri-business activities
    (CCSHAU, 2005) Kusum; Yadav, Lali
    The study was undertaken in Bhiwani district of Haryana covering 3 blocks and 3 villages with randomized sample of 240 @ 80 per village. Personal, social, economic, psychological and communicational parameters were taken as independent variables. Capacity-building was taken as the dependent variable. The study reveals that majority of the respondents hailed from lower middle age category, educated upto primary, medium family education status, large family size, high caste, no social participation, nuclear family, farming occupation, monthly income of Rs. 5000/-, possessing 0-3 milch animals and small farmers. Majority of the respondents had low to medium entrepreneurial motivation, risk orientation, change proneness and credit orientation and medium communication behavior and mass media exposure. Mushroom cultivation, vermicomposting, dairy-cooperative, beekeeping and nursery-raising were identified as feasible agri-business activities for the rural women. Confidence and high-moral values were perceived entrepreneurial attributes of a woman. Majority of the respondents were willing to start mushroom cultivation and vermicomposting as an agri-business activity. Major motivating factors to undertake agri-business activities were desires to be self-reliant and availability of resources/time/space/finance. Main demotivating factors not to undertake agri-business activities were lack of support from the family and lack of knowledge. Majority of the respondents had low knowledge of requirements of agri-business activities. Most of them preferred to go for production unit. Majority of the respondents had medium to low ability, low to medium capability, low to medium potential, medium to low willingness, low to medium aspirations and medium to low economic motivation. Major constraints perceived by the respondents were problem in procuring finance as well as loan from different agencies, lack of technological knowledge about running the unit, economic incredibility being women, poor linkage with networking marketing bodies and lack of risk orientation. Significant gain was reported in psychological attributes viz. entrepreneurial motivation, risk orientation, change proneness and credit orientation. Significant gain in entrepreneurial attributes viz. willingness to start agri-business activity, willingness to take risk, willingness to change, willingness to take credit, willingness to take training was found after the introduction of intervention package. Significant gain was reported in all the capacity-building aspects viz. ability, capability potential, willingness, aspiration and economic motivation. Maximum gain was found in willingness followed by ability and capability. Vermicomposting was perceived as the most profitable, triable, relatively advantageous, labor saving, culturally compatible and cheap technology. Age was found to be highly significantly associated with capacity-building. Steps need to be taken to facilitate the transfer of technologies in order to improve the status of agri-business enterprises, development and utilization of women leadership, facilitate education and training, restructure of extension approach for the capacity building of farm women.
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    Studies on wheat-azotobacter interaction under pot house conditions
    (CCSHAU, 2008) Kusum; Vasudava, Manjula
    To study the varietal behaviour of wheat with regard to different strains of Azotobacter chroococcum, as experiment was conducted in which six varieties of wheat such as C-306, PBW-343, WH-283, WH-542, WH-147 and WH-711 were treated with two mutants of A. chroococcum Mac27 and HT54 at three levels of fertilizer such as O kg N ha-1, 90 kg N ha-1, 120 kg N ha-1 in terms of agronomical parameters under pot house conditions. Response of wheat varieties was studied towards A. chroococum in plant height, seed yield, total nitrogen content and total biomass. Variety C-306 showed best response towards both the strains of A. chroococcum. Mac27 showed better response as compared to HT54. Root exudates of these wheat varieties were analyzed for chemotactic behaviour and other components such as sugars, amino acids, phytohormones and organic acids. Glutamic acid and some other unidentified amino acids were detected in both inoculated and uninoculated wheat varieties. Succinic acid was present in wheat varieties WH-711 and WH-147. Maleic acid and some unidentified organic acids were detected in inoculated and uninoculated wheat varieties C-306, PBW-343, WH-283 and WH-542.