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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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ThesisItem Open Access Diversification of cropping pattern and production in Haryana(CCSHAU, 2016) Sunita; Mehta, V.P.Crop diversification is a strategy to maximize the use of land, water and other resources and for the overall agricultural development in the state. The present study has made an attempt to have cropping pattern, production pattern, extent of crop diversification and effect of different factors on crop diversification of different crop groups in the state with these objectives, (1) to measure the extent of crop diversification in Haryana, (2) to study crop diversification and production pattern in (3) to examine the factors effecting crop diversification. The present study is based on secondary data collected from various issues of Statistical Abstracts of Haryana and other published and unpublished sources. Compound and linear growth rates for area, production and productivity were computed. In overall period(1993-2013) area, production and productivity of foodgrains increased at a compound annual growth rate of 0.56, 2.56 and 1.93 per cent per annum while for pulses all these values were in negative. The growth rates of area for all crops except rice, wheat, barley and ultimately total cereals were in negative. The cropping pattern has skewed towards rice-wheat cultivation. From the results derived from different measures of crop diversification it was noticed that value of crop diversification index was higher in the initial years of study period among all crop groups except pulses. The decline in the growth of area for bajra and sugarcane is due to shift of area towards paddy while decrease in area of gram is due to shift of area towards wheat. Multiple regression was carried out by using composite entropy index to know the effect of different factors on crop diversification. The results has suggested that creation of basic infrastructural facilities like sustained supply of irrigation water, markets, fertilizer availability, etc. is an essential pre-requisite for creating enabling conditions for crop diversification. For achieving diversification targets, technology backup, good governance, policy development and strong extension system are required. Diversification would require fundamental changes in incentives, institutions and investments, however these changes should not be at the cost of farmers’ income.ThesisItem Open Access Diversification of cropping pattern and production in Haryana(CCSHAU, 2016) Sunita; Mehta, V.P.Crop diversification is a strategy to maximize the use of land, water and other resources and for the overall agricultural development in the state. The present study has made an attempt to have cropping pattern, production pattern, extent of crop diversification and effect of different factors on crop diversification of different crop groups in the state with these objectives, (1) to measure the extent of crop diversification in Haryana, (2) to study crop diversification and production pattern in (3) to examine the factors effecting crop diversification. The present study is based on secondary data collected from various issues of Statistical Abstracts of Haryana and other published and unpublished sources. Compound and linear growth rates for area, production and productivity were computed. In overall period(1993-2013) area, production and productivity of foodgrains increased at a compound annual growth rate of 0.56, 2.56 and 1.93 per cent per annum while for pulses all these values were in negative. The growth rates of area for all crops except rice, wheat, barley and ultimately total cereals were in negative. The cropping pattern has skewed towards rice-wheat cultivation. From the results derived from different measures of crop diversification it was noticed that value of crop diversification index was higher in the initial years of study period among all crop groups except pulses. The decline in the growth of area for bajra and sugarcane is due to shift of area towards paddy while decrease in area of gram is due to shift of area towards wheat. Multiple regression was carried out by using composite entropy index to know the effect of different factors on crop diversification. The results has suggested that creation of basic infrastructural facilities like sustained supply of irrigation water, markets, fertilizer availability, etc. is an essential pre-requisite for creating enabling conditions for crop diversification. For achieving diversification targets, technology backup, good governance, policy development and strong extension system are required. Diversification would require fundamental changes in incentives, institutions and investments, however these changes should not be at the cost of farmers’ income.ThesisItem Open Access Self-esteem and depression among adolescents(CCSHAU, 2014) Sunita; Punia, ShakuntalaThe study was conducted to find out the relationship of self-esteem and depression on 290 students, studying in 9th and 10th standard, age ranging from 15-16 years, from rural and urban area of Hisar district, from Haryana state. Beck Depression Inventory, Inventory of Parent-Peer Attachment (IPPA), and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale were used for collecting data on depression, parent-peer attachment and self-esteem respectively. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient, t-test and regression analysis were used to get the inferences as per objective. The mean age of respondents was 15.42years and nearly sixty percent selected respondents were females. Majority of respondents were either 1st or 2nd born having average academic performance and studying in 10th class. Parental profile revealed that mean chronological age of mothers and father was 36.84 and 41.49 years respectively. Majority of mothers were illiterate or educated up to middle class, whereas majority of fathers were matriculate. Most of the mothers were house wives and nearly half of fathers worked as laborers. Majority of the respondents belonged to nuclear families with medium size and were from SC or BC category. Annual income of the family was up to ` 1, 26,666.Results concluded that majority of the respondents had high trust, communication and low level of alienation with their parents and peers. Rural as well as female respondents had moderately secure attachment as compared to their counterparts. Positive and significant correlations were observed in adolescent’s parent peer attachment with gender, academic achievement, whereas, ordinal position was correlated only with maternal attachment. Paternal age and occupation were negatively and significantly correlated with peer trust, communication, alienation and paternal communication. Negative and significant correlation existed between academic class and maternal communication, alienation, attachment and paternal alienation, whereas, annual income had positive correlation only with maternal trust. The results related to self-esteem revealed that majority of the adolescents had normal level of self-esteem. The urban girls were superior to their counter parts in self-esteem. Significant and positive correlation of adolescents self-esteem was seen with gender, academic achievement, maternal, paternal and peer trust, communication and attachment, whereas, negative but significant relation were seen with paternal occupation and maternal, paternal and peer alienation. Further majority of respondents were nondepressed or had mild mood disturbances, whereas, 33.5% respondents had clinical depressive symptoms. Comparatively males or respondents from rural area were more depressed. The self-esteem, academic achievement and parent and peer trust, communication and attachment were negatively and significantly correlated with depression hence acted as protective factors. Whereas maternal, paternal, peer alienation was seen as risk factor for depression among adolescents. Further self-esteem, peer alienation, mother communication and father trust were the significant predictors causing variance in depression.