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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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    A STATISTICAL STUDY OF VARIATION IN ARRIVALS AND PRICES OF POTATO IN THE SELECTED MARICETS OF KARNATAKA
    (University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Banglore, 2007-08-30) GANGADHARAPPA H.; S. N. MEGERI
    Potato is an edible starchy tuber produced by certain plants of the genus - solanum and family - solanaccac. Potato is the fourth most important food crop in the world exceeded only by wheat, rice and maize for human consumption. The present study was conducted in Bangalore, Belgaum, Kolar, Hassan and Hubli markets during 1996-97 to 2003-04. The secondary data pertaining to monthly model price rupees per quintal, monthly total arrivals in quintals were collected from Karnataka State Agriculture Marketing Board, Bangalore. For evaluation of different objectives, multiplicative time series analysis, two way ANOVA, correlation coefficient, co-integration test and ARIMA model were used. The study shows, the peak arrivals season in the months of August, September and October, whereas the prices are high during April, June and July months were observed in all the selected markets. It was noticed in ail the selected markets that there was an positive trend. The arrivals have increased in all the selected markets except in Hubli market, but the quantum of increasing arrivals varies from market to market. The cyclical component was not found in all the selected markets for both arrivals and prices. The couelation coellicienls were calculated between the arrivals and prices of all the selected markets, which indicated that the coefficient are significant except Bangalore market. All the selected markets are integrated with zero order of integration. Since, the trend forecast is not precise for owing to non-stationarity of data, it is not always reliable. So, Box-Jen kin's method is applied for precise forecasting of arrivals and prices of potato for monthly data to all the selected markets.
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    STATISTICAL ANALYSIS ON RARE, ENDANGERED AND THREATENED (RET) MEDICINAL PLANTS IN SACRED GROVES OF KODAGU, CENTRAL WESTERN GHATS
    (University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Banglore, 2007-08-30) VIJAY C.R.; SHRI. P. A. KATARKI
    Sacred groves are unique landscapes and relies of original vegetation being preserved under community conservation concept. The assessment of population status of RET species was carried out in the sacred groves of Kodagu district. The growing stocks and regeneration status of RET species with respect to their potential spatial distribution that are influenced by ecological factors was assessed in ten sacred groves under semi-evergreen and seven groves under moist-deciduous vegetation. Species diversity of trees (H =2.570) and regeneration (H =3.673) and richness of both trees (17) and regeneration (8.00) were higher in sacred groves of semi-evergreen than that of moist deciduous vegetation. With respect to spatial pattern of RET trees Cannarium strictum showed clumped pattern (x^ = 8.7042) where as other species showed neither clumped nor random pattern. In spatial distribution pattern of regeneration only Artocarpus hirsutus showed clumped pattern {x2= 6.6716). Assessment of species abundance was also done from data of both vegetation types. Cinommomum macrocarpum acquired first position (398) with relative abundance (0.3376) in case of growing stock and also in regeneration with recorded number of 245 individuals and relative abundance of 0.4890. while considering individual vegetation type. Cinommomum macrocarpum had 723 and 275 Individuals in sacred groves of semi-evergreen and moist deciduous vegetation respectively. From the pooled data of regeneration of both vegetation types, the abundance with individuals of 188 and 157 and with relative frequency of 0.5000 and 0.4830. Regarding assessment of influence of ecological factors on population of RET species, the ecological parameters such as latitude, longitude and rainfall had significant influence on girth, height and basal area (r = 0.630. 0.49 and 0.597) respectively. The present study confirms the hypothesis that mild disturbance had great influence on higher density of RET medicinal species.
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    ANALYSIS OF RASTER MAP DERIVED FROM REMOTE SENSING DATA FOR ASSESSING LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY
    (University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Banglore, 2007-11-14) AMBILY, C. M.; K. M. S. Sharma
    The impact of growth in human population is observed on the structure of the landscapes all over the world. Fragmentation of landscapes beyond certain levels leads to extinction of several plant and animal species resulting in the loss of biodiversity. The present study is an attempt to analyze and compare the landscape structure of Bangalore North and Anekal taluks of Bangalore district of Karnataka. Remote sensing data which provide a synoptic view of the landscape is used here for the analysis. The different classes in the landscape were characterized by multivariate normal distribution. The mean vector and covariance matrices of the different classes were estimated form the training sets. Supervised maximum likelihood classification was used to obtain the categorical raster map of the two landscapes. Classification accuracy was assessed using the error matrix obtained form a test data set. Kappa statistics were calculated to assess the classification accuracy. Fairly accurate classification of the landscape is obtained with overall classification accuracy ranging from 85.9 % to 90.9%. From the classified raster map different metrics were calculated at patch level, class level and landscape level. These metrics were statistically analyzed using Hotelling's T2 statistics and the results indicated significant difference between the two landscapes. From the analysis of different metrics it is observed that cropland is the most dominant land type in both the study areas. In order to assess the fragmentation of landscapes, fragmentation indices were calculated for each class of the two landscapes and compared. From the fragmentation indices, it can be seen that agriculture plantation, forest and scrub forest in Anekal taluk are more fragmented. The diversity indices and diversity profiles were computed from landscape metrics and compared. From the diversity profile it is concluded that diversity of Anekal taluk is more when compared with Bangalore North taluk.
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    APPLICATION OF MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES IN EVALUATION OF SUNFLOWER {Helianthus annuus) GENOTYPES
    (University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Banglore, 2007-08-30) THERTHAPPA, B. S; A. R. S., BHAT
    Sunflower {Helianthus annuus) a member of family Asteraceae, is an important edible oilseed crop originated in the central high lands of Mexico and USA and was introduced to India during 1916. Commercial cultivation of sunflower was started in India during 1972 after the introduction of Russian varieties EC 68414 and EC 68415. Twenty six genotypes of sunflower (Helianthis annus) were studied based on eight characters to ascertain the correlation and path coefficient effect of yield and yield components, prediction of seed yield and the magnitude of genetic divergence
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    STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF BENEFICIARIES OF RUDSET INSTITUTE IN KAIUVATAKA
    (University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Banglore, 2007-08-24) RAGHUNANDAN, , G.C.; K. N. Krishnamurthy
    Unemployment is a major economic and social problem in India. It is more so in rural India. Self-employment of the rural youth is considered to be an effective way of tackling the problem of unemployment and building up rural economy. The Rural Development and Self-Employment Training (RUDSET) Institute, having realised this, has been organising Entrepreneurship Development Programmes (EDP's) for unemployed rural youth for product-making, processing, general-purpose and agriculture since 1982 in seven districts of Karnataka. The present study aims at (1) identifying the characteristics of the RUDSET Institute beneficiaries which promote self-employment and (2) estimating the time taken for self-employment. The statistical tools employed for these are respectively logistic regression and survival analysis. Also (3) the return per rupee invested by the Institute is computed for seven centres and four EDP's. The data consists of 348 beneficiaries including 126 women sampled from the seven centres (Bangalore, Bijapur, Brahmavar, Chitradurga, Dharwad, Mysore and Ujire) across four EDP's.
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    DEMAND FOR MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS IN KARNATAKA - STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
    (University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Banglore, 2007-08-24) MANOHAR, M.; D.M GOWDA
    Milk and Milk Products (MMP) are one of the agricultural products, which are widely used. The Indian Dairy sector registered a spectacular growth rate of five percent per annum during the last three decades and as a result, India emerged as the world's largest producer of milk surpassing the milk production of the USA. The per capita consumption ranges from 70 gms per day to around 250 gms per day in the State. In the present study different statistical techniques were used for estimating and projecting the demand for MMP in Karnataka using different rounds of NSSO data
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    SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF AIR POLLUTION AND MORBIDITY DATA OF BANGALORE CITY
    (University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Banglore, 2007-08-22) MALLIKARJUNA, K.; H. SRIDHARA
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    ARIMA MODELS FOR FORECASTING OF ARRIVALS AND PRICES OF SELECTED FRUIT CROPS AT "BANGALORE MARKET
    (University of Agricultural Sciences GKVK, Banglore, 2007-06-06) HEMANTHA, KUMAR; MUNIRAJAPPA, , R
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    STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF BENEFICIARIES OF RUDSET INSTITUTE IN KAIUVATAKA
    (UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES GKVK, BANGALORE, 2007-08-24) RAGHUNANDAN, G.C; Krishnamurthy, K. N
    Unemployment is a major economic and social problem in India. It is more so in rural India. Self-employment of the rural youth is considered to be an effective way of tackling the problem of unemployment and building up rural economy. The Rural Development and Self-Employment Training (RUDSET) Institute, having realised this, has been organising Entrepreneurship Development Programmes (EDP's) for unemployed rural youth for product-making, processing, general-purpose and agriculture since 1982 in seven districts of Karnataka. The present study aims at (1) identifying the characteristics of the RUDSET Institute beneficiaries which promote self-employment and (2) estimating the time taken for self-employment. The statistical tools employed for these are respectively logistic regression and survival analysis. Also (3) the return per rupee invested by the Institute is computed for seven centres and four EDP's. The data consists of 348 beneficiaries including 126 women sampled from the seven centres (Bangalore, Bijapur, Brahmavar, Chitradurga, Dharwad, Mysore and Ujire) across four EDP's. The salient findings of the study are the following (1) The psycho-social characteristics of the beneficiaries that promote selfemployment are found to be age, previous experience, risk taking ability, training and post-training follow-up by the Institute. (2) For the women beneficiaries 'training' and 'post training follow-up' are the determinants in getting self-employment. (3) Fifty percent of the youths trained by the Institute establish their own enterprise with in 3 months under all types of training programmes in all the seven centres. This result is of practical value to the RUDSET Institute as they follow-up the trainees for over one year helping them to get self-employed. They have been looking for a cut off time beyond which follow-up is uneconomical. (4) It is found that the return per rupee invested by the Institute ranges from Rs. 27 to Rs. 132. In sum, the study evaluates the characteristics of the trainees and the effect of the training programmes of the RUDSET Institute in tackling the problem of un-employment among rural youth.