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University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru

University of Agricultural Sciences Bangalore, a premier institution of agricultural education and research in the country, began as a small agricultural research farm in 1899 on 30 acres of land donated by Her Excellency Maharani Kempa Nanjammanni Vani Vilasa Sannidhiyavaru, the Regent of Mysore and appointed Dr. Lehmann, German Scientist to initiate research on soil crop response with a Laboratory in the Directorate of Agriculture. Later under the initiative of the Dewan of Mysore Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah, the Mysore Agriculture Residential School was established in 1913 at Hebbal which offered Licentiate in Agriculture and later offered a diploma programme in agriculture during 1920. The School was upgraded to Agriculture Collegein 1946 which offered four year degree programs in Agriculture. The Government of Mysore headed by Sri. S. Nijalingappa, the then Chief Minister, established the University of Agricultural Sciences on the pattern of Land Grant College system of USA and the University of Agricultural Sciences Act No. 22 was passed in Legislative Assembly in 1963. Dr. Zakir Hussain, the Vice President of India inaugurated the University on 21st August 1964.

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Subject: Agricultural Economics × End date: 1996 × Start date: 1996 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    COMPARATIVE ECONOMICS OF PLANTED AND RATOON CROPS OF SUGARCANE IN NORTHERN KARNATAKA
    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 1996) MAHESHWARAPPA, B O; KUNNAL, L B
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    SUNFLOWER BASED CROPPING SEQUENCES UNDER RAINFED CONDITIONS - AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 1996) OLEKAR, JAGANATH N; KUNNAL, L B
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    ECONOMICS OF SILK COCOON PRODUCTION IN DHARWAD DISTRICT
    (University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, 1996) DABALI, SOMASEKHAR D; HIREMATH, G K
    Banking on the evolved Improved Sericultural Technology and aided by the World Bank and the Swias Government, the premier sericultural state of Karnataka, in 1980, embarked on the extension of sericulture into it's northern districts as well, projecting it as a venture capable of generating profitable, year-round employment under redused-moimture conditions.As the first part of studying the economics of sericulture in Dharwad, a northern Karnataka district, fifty established sericulturists of Shirahatti taluk which had the district’s highest mulberry area startir.g 1985, were sampled in July 1986. It .was observed that mulberry existed only as an irrigated, subsidiary crop completely integrated with cocoon production. An hectare produced 12.88 tonnes of leaf per annum from three crops against « regional potential of 4.2 crops, due to water shortage. 1,556 layings reared therefrom produced 435 kgs of cocoons utilizing 1,274 mandays of labour, 39 percent of which was from family. Hundred layings produced 28 kgs of cocoon feeding 847 kga of leaf, in the face of rearing equipment shortage, diseases and uzi menace- Cobb-DougIa3 type regression function results favoured increasing the gross mulberry hecterage and operational rearing costs. Cocoon production required Rs.25,227 and included Ra.694, the value of free chawki input from Sericulture Department. A profit of Rs.660 was realised by cocoons sold at Rs.56 per kilogram.The concluding, second part of the ^-tudy was conducted in May 1995. Appropos 80 percent of the sample farmers had discontinued, the taluk having lost 76 percent of it's mulberry area. Problems related to rearing, management and labour, profitability accounted for 50,24 and 11 percentproportions ofprecipitatingreasonstherefor.Disontinuations peaked around 1987 due to uaifly and around 1991 due to pebrine-caused layings shortage and low cocoon price. The sample’s decadal performance indicated annual cocoon yield to be 431 kgs and extrapolated leaf yield to be 14.93 tonnes and thus couldn’t replicate the performances of southern Karnataka and the State’s potential. Insufficient, technology, incompetent layings supply, indifferent market policy coupled with sub-nonual annual rainfalls an ? irrigation-water shortage had undermined the earlier sericultural area and grass-root effort in the region.A 1994-95 case-study of an adequately-irrigated, shoot rearing farm demonstrated 842 kgs of cocoon produce per hectare from four crops, selling at Rs.122 per kg. and profitting byRe.47,660 per annum.
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    AN ECONOMIC ANAL VSIS OF COLLECTION, MARKETING AND PROCESSING OF MINOR OILSEEDS OF TREE ORIGIN IN TUMKUR DISTRICT, KARNATAKA
    (University of Agricultural Science, BANGALORE, 1996) DHANAJAYA, B N; GRACY, C P
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    AGROFORE-STRY IN ARECANUT FARMING SYSTEM OF WESTERN GHATS·AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
    (University of Agricultural Science, BANGALORE, 1996) ARUN KUMAR, S; PRAKASH, T N
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    AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FISHING CRAFTS AND GEARS IN ANDAMANS
    (University of Agricultural Science, BANGALORE, 1996) SANTOSH PRAKASH; KESHAVA REDDY, T R
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    ECONOMICS OF SILK COCOON PRODUCTION IN GULBARGA DISTRICT, KARNATAKA
    (University of Agricultural Science, BANGALORE, 1996) DODMANI, M T; MUNDINAMANI, S M
    Karnataka is one of the leading states in the country in the production of mulberry silk. An attempt was made in the present study to analyse the economics of mulberry cultivation and silk cocoon production in Jewargi taluk of Gulbarga district. Mainly primary data~ was used for evaluating the objectives of the study. The required primary data was elicited from 97 sericulturists at random, spread over five villages of Jewargi taluk. Tabular analysis was used to compute costs and returns in mulberry cultivation and silk cocoon production. Production function analysis was carried out to assess the resource use efficiency in mulberry cultivation. The per hectare establishment cost of mulberry garden was Rs. 6,534.17. The total maintenance cost of mulberry cultivation per hectare was Rs.l9,766 of which the operational cost accounted for 70 per cent and rest was fixed cost. The gross and net returns from mulberry cultivation were Rs.32,858 and Rs.l3,091 respectively. The returns per rupee of investment was Rs.l.66. The total cost of silk cocoon production was Rs.36,364 • per hectare. The operational cost accounted for over 98 per cent. On an average, 923 kg of silk cocoons was obtained by rearing 2400 laying in one hectare of mulberry crop per annum. The gross and net returns realised from silk cocoon was Rs.87,952 and Rs.51,588 respective l y. The major problems encountered by t h e sericulturists in mulberry cultivation were shortage of irrigation water during summer and attack of pests and diseases for mulberry crop. In silk cocoon production, non-availability of disease free laying, shortage of rearing equipments and attack of uzifly were the major problems. The problems of water shortage could be reduced by intensive use of available water by adopting drip or sprinkler irrigation systems. The pest and disease problem in sericulture enterprise can be controlled by educating the farmers on timely use of appropriate chemicals and disinfectants.
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    REHABILITATION OF IRRIGATION TANKS IN EASTERN DRYZONE OF KARNATAKA- AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
    (University of Agricultural Science, BANGALORE, 1996) GIREESH, M; NAGARAJ, N
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    ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - A CASE STUDY IN KALYANAKERE WATERSHED
    (University of Agricultural Science, BANGALORE, 1996) NAGA PRASAD, K S; GUNDU RAO, D S
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