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Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola

Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola was established on 20th October, 1969 with its head-quarter at Akola. This Agricultural University was named after the illustrious son of Vidarbha Dr. Panjabrao (alias Bhausaheb) Deshmukh, who was the Minister for Agriculture,Govt. of India. The jurisdiction of this university is spread over the eleven districts of Vidarbha. According to the University Act 1983 (of the Government of Maharashtra), the University is entrusted with the responsibility of agricultural education, research and extension education alongwith breeder and foundation seed programme. The University has its main campus at Akola. The instructional programmes at main campus are spread over in 5 Colleges namely, College of Agriculture, College of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, College of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Post Graduate Institute. At this campus 4 degree programmes namely B.Sc.(Agri.) B.Sc. (Hort.), B.Sc. (Forestry) and B.Tech. (Ag. Engg.) , two Master’s Degree Programmes viz. M.Sc.(Agri.) and M.Tech. (Agri.Engg.) and Doctoral Degree Programmes in the faculties of Agriculture and Agril. Engineering are offered. The University has its sub-campus at Nagpur with constituent College, College of Agriculture which offers B.Sc.(Agri.) and M.Sc.(Agri.) degree programmes. The Nagpur Campus is accomplished with a garden, surrounded by its natural beauty and a well established Zoo which attract the general public and visitors to the city. A separate botanic Garden is being maintained on 22 hectares with a green house for the benefit of research workers. In addition there are 2 affiliated grant-in-aid colleges and 14 private non-grant-in-aid colleges under the umbrella of this University A Central Research Station is situated at the main Campus which caters to the need of research projects undertaken by Crop Scientists of the principle crops of the region are Cotton, Sorghum, Oilseeds and Pulses.

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    EFFECT OF POLYETHYLENE MULCH AND DRIP FERTIGATION ON PRODUCTION OF OKRA.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2018-06-12) CHAVHAN, DEEPA SUBHASH; WADATKAR, S. B.
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    FUZZY BASED DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR PROTECTIVE IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2018-12-20) DHOTE, MINAKSHI KASHINATH; KALE, M. U.
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    INVESTIGATION ON SOLAR DRYER ASSISTED WITH AGRO-RESIDUE BRIQUETTE BASED HOT AIR GENERATOR.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2018-08-20) PATIL, SWATI HANUMANTRAO; KALBANDE, S. R.
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    DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLATIC INSECT LIGHT TRAP.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2018-08-20) GAVHANDE, AJAY MURLIDHAR; KALBANDE, S. R.
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    COMPARISON OF BRINJAL PRODUCTION UNDER DRIP FERTIGATION WITH DIFFERENT FERTILIZER LEVELS AND TRADITIONAL METHOD OF FERTILIZER APPLICATION.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2018-09-19) ADAWADKAR, MAYUR PRAKASH.; Deshmukh, Dr. M. M.
    A field experiment was conducted to study the comparison of brinjal production under drip fertigation and traditional method of fertilizer application, at Dr. PDKV, Akola during November 2017 to May 2018. The experiment was laid out in randomized block design with five treatments which includes four drip fertigation levels (75, 100, 125, and 150 % of RDF) and control treatment of traditional fertilization at 100 % RDF and these all treatments are replicated four times. The study indicated higher plant growth, more number of branches, higher number of fruits per plant and enhancement in the yield under all drip fertigation levels. Yield of brinjal was maximum in treatment of drip fertigation at 150 % RDF (T4) (557.10 q/ha) and found at par with treatment of drip fertigation at 125 % RDF (T3) (554.88 q/ha). It was seen that yield of brinjal in treatment T4 was found to be higher than that of treatment T3, which was statistically at par. But the advantage in treatment T3 was requirement of 25 % less amount of fertilizer. Considering requirement of less amount of fertilizer in treatment T3 than treatment T4; the treatment T3 may be suggested as a best treatment. Minimum yield of brinjal was found in treatment of traditional fertilization at 100 % RDF. Higher irrigation water use efficiency 7.33 q/ha-cm was found in treatment of drip fertigation at 150 % RDF (T4) followed by treatment of drip fertigation at 125 % RDF (T3). On the basis of benefit cost ratio (3.22) and net monetary returns (267653 Rs/ha), it is economically viable for the farmers to adopt drip fertigation at 125 % RDF for brinjal production.
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    SIMULATION OF WATER FRONT ADVANCE FOR ONLINE DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEM BY USING HYDRUS-2D.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2018-09-06) THUTE, RANI SAHEBRAO.; Kale, Dr. M. U.
    Drip irrigation has gained widespread popularity as an economically viable method of applying water. A constraint of drip irrigation is the number of emitters and laterals required to adequately deliver water to plant roots. During irrigation the water content in the soil changes spatially and temporally. Water distribution in the soil is strongly dependent on the design parameters of the irrigation. For effective design of drip irrigation systems, the water dynamics in soil needs to be predicted using all design parameters. The modeling of water movement in soil requires the knowledge of the soil hydrological properties especially soil water retention curve and hydraulic conductivity-water content relationship. These two basic hydrological characteristics must be defined experimentally before it is possible to carry out numerical analysis of water movement in unsaturated and saturated soils. In the present study, HYDRUS-2D was used to study the moisture movement through soil under drip irrigation system. Richard’s equation was solved using HYDRUS and vGM parameters obtained by using ROSETTA were used as input for HYDRUS. The HYDRUS model was calibrated and validated for different discharge rate and volume application combination. The modeling results showed that the HYDRUS-2D simulated the soil moisture satisfactorily in terms of statistical parameters R2 and RMSE. Effect of different discharge of emitter with combination of different volume on moisture distribution pattern was also studied and results showed that as discharge rate and volume of water increased wetted diameter also increased upto 30 hours and decreased after 30 hours from time of application. For Akola station, it was observed that the distance between two emitters should not be more than 48 and 52 cm in case of 4 lph and 8 lph emitter respectively.
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    DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF POWER OPERATED GROUNDNUT DECORTICATOR.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola., 2018-09-13) KOTHALKAR, VAISHALI GAJANAN.; Deshmukh, Dr. M. M.
    Present work is entitled “Design, development and performance evaluation of power operated groundnut decorticator.” To design concave sieve of groundnut decorticator various physical parameters of groundnut pods and seeds were studied to design concave sieve. Overall dimensions of main frame are 1400×320×820. Electric motor, Pulley and belts are used for power transmission. The performance evaluation of power operated groundnut decorticator was evaluate at different clearances between decorticating lever and concave sieve. Broken seed were 13.96 per cent at 12 mm clearance and losses were 21.06 per cent at 7 mm clearance Decorticating efficiencies were 97.78 per cent at 12 mm clearance and 98.43 per cent at 7 mm Clearance. Cleaning efficiency was 85.71 per cent at 12 mm clearance and 78.93 per cent at 7 mm clearance. Cleaning efficiency decreases with decreasing clearance. Input capacity was 45 kg/h at 12mm clearance and 40 kg/h at 7mm clearance. Output capacity was 28.75 kg/h at 12 mm clearance and 25.44 kg/h at 7 mm clearance. Input and output capacities were decreased with clearance. Seed recovery range was 79.07 per cent at 12mm clearance and 73.29 per cent at 7 mm clearance. Seed recovery range was decreased with clearance. Capacity utilization was 63.88 per cent at 12mm clearance and 63.60 per cent at 7 mm clearance.
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    MODIFICATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SELF PROPELLED REAPER WINDROWER FOR HARVESTING CHICKPEA AND WHEAT.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2017-09-13) WAHANE, TEJASWINI BHASKARRAO.; Thakare, Dr. S. K.
    The project entitled “modification and performance evaluation of self propelled reaper windrower for harvesting chickpea and wheat” was undertaken with the objectives to evaluate performance of self propelled vertical conveyor reaper for harvesting of chickpea and wheat crop and modifications done are development of collection and unloading unit. For collection of cut crop and heap making at every 5 m distance of travel. The testing was carried at Central Research Station of Dr.PDKV, Akola. Also the test results of mechanical harvesting of chickpea and wheat crop by self propelled vertical conveyor reaper were compared with test results of manual harvesting to know the benefits of mechanical harvesting over manual harvesting. The self propelled vertical conveyor reaper cut and windrowed cut crop uniformly in a row. The average effective field capacity and field efficiency of the self propelled vertical conveyor reaper for chickpea was found to be 0.249 ha/h and 89.00 per cent, and for wheat it was 0.360 ha/h and 91.76 per cent respectively. Fuel consumption of self propelled vertical conveyor reaper was 0.725 lit/h and 2.84 lit/ha for chickpea and 0.700 lit/h and 1.92 lit/ha for wheat. The field trail of VCR has been conducted at different grain moisture content, in order to determine the optimum grain moisture content at which the harvesting losses are minimum. It was observed that at lower grain moisture content the per cent harvest losses were higher. At grain moisture content of 17.0 % the harvest losses were found minimum i.e. 2.33 % and in case of wheat at grain moisture content of 10.24% the harvest losse were found minimum i.e. 0.93 % as compared to the harvest losses at other higher grain moisture content. The average harvesting losses for chickpea in mechanical harvesting and manual harvesting were found to be 8.01 per cent and 3.08 per cent, and for wheat crop 1.035 per cent and 1.83 per cent respectively. Developed collection and unloading unit was found work satisfactorily during laboratory and filler field trail. The cost of operation of self propelled vertical conveyor reaper and manual harvesting for chickpea were 850 Rs/ha and 1264 Rs/ha and for wheat 1155 Rs/ha and 3400 Rs/ha respectively. In mechanical harvesting the per cent saving in the cost of operation and time were found to be 32.83 per cent and 35.82 per cent and for wheat 66.02 per cent and 62.71 per cent respectively.