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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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Subject: Soil and Water Engineering × End date: 2018 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    OPTIMIZATION OF RAINWATER HARVESTING STORAGE STRUCTURE BASED ON HYDROLOGICAL MODELING
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2012-10-06) CHUNALE, GAJANAN LAXMAN; Satpute, Dr. G. U.
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    STUDIES ON SPLASH EROSION UNDER SIMULATED RAINFALL
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2015-06-15) BARAI, VIRENDRA NARAYANRAO; Satpute, G. U.
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    OPTIMIZATION OF WATEJl FOOT PRINTS (GREEN AND BLUE) FOR RIVER BASIN
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2015-09-29) SUPE, MITAL SOPANRAO; Taley, S. M.
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    OPTIMIZATION OF RAINWATER HARVESTING STORAGE STRUCTURE BASED ON HYDROLOGICAL MODELING
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2012) Chunale, Gajanan L; Satpute, Dr. G. U.
    "The practice of rainwater harvesting is quite common in the Sub· montane zone of Maharashtra, but not much work has been reported on its optimal design. At present the rainwater harvesting structure or ponds are designed on thumb rule or some empirical relationships: resulting in either large or small pond size than required. Present study therefore deals with developing step-by-step methodology for optimizing the size of rainwater ,; harvesting storage (RWHS) structure and formulating optimal cropping plan for small agricultural watershed under Sub-montane zone of Maharashtra. The purpose was to make effective utilization of limited rainwater harvested in the pond, manage both land , water resources optimally on watershed basis, and maximize the net benefit thereof. The small agricultural watershed (12.1 ha) at Zonal Agricultural Research Station, Kolhapur (M.S.) was the experimental site for the present study. The water harvesting potential of study watershed was estimated through event based and continuous modeling using HEC-HMS model Event based simulation was carried out on shorter time step of 5-min, whereas continuous modeling on 1-hr time step. Two model parameters viz. initial abstraction (la:=22. 70 mm) and recession constant (k=0.766) for event based HEC-HMS model were calibrated and validated using 48 observed rainfall-runoff events during year 1991-2008. for event modeling, Six parameters viz. canopy capacity (1.02 mm): surface capacity (0.69 mm); percolation rates of soil and upper GW layers (1 .09 mm/hr for both) and storage capacity (20 .18 mm) and storage coefficient (0.46 hr) of upper GW layer for continuous modeling were calibrated and validated using observed rainfall-runoff data (1991-2008 except year 1997 and 2002). The active storage capacity of RWHS structure was optimized using linear programming (LP) model in deterministic mode i.e. for known values of daily inflow from hourly-simulated runoff and daily crop-water demand. The optimal size RWHS was decided based on Implicit Stochastic Optimization (ISO) concept in view of uncertainty involved in daily inflow and climatic parameters of other years. Based on optimal storage capacity and available rainwater storage, the optimal cropping plan was formulated using LP model for efficient utilization of lim1ted rainwater harvested and maximization of net benefit. Results of the study revealed that the event based and continuous HEC-HMS model has better applicability for study watershed. The model has given better predictive performance for event and continuous modeling for hydrologic response of small watershed under study. lt was verified from minimum percent errors for runoff volume and runoff peaks (PEV= -1 .38 & - 1.06 percents and PEP= -1 .71 & +4.23 percents) coupled with lower values of root mean square errors (RMSE =0.023 and 0.040) and normalized objective xii function (NQF;0.465 and 2.13) and higher values of Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency (NSE ;0.825 and 0.849) during verification. The reasonably closer match of simulated flood and streamflow hydrographs with observed ones in terms of shape, magnitude and symmetry confirmed the better predictive performance of model. Short computational time step of 5-min for event based model and 1-hr continuous model were found useful for simulation of reliable flood/streamflow hydrographs and their time related parameters. The closely spaced flood peaks to centre mass rain hyetographs in the flood /streamflow hydrographs indicated very rapid response of study watershed to individual rainstorms. The active storage capacity of 6030.0 cum is found optimal for the proposed RWHS based on minimum surplus and minimum deficit. The optimal cropping plan formulated under rainfed situation for individual year varies with available rainwater in the RWHS and number of supplementary irrigation (S I) requirement to the kharif crops. The crops with minimum number of Sl got maximum land allocation under limited water availability, whereas the crops with maximum number of Sl get minimum land allocation. The overall optimal cropping plan for the study watershed shows maximum land allocation (0.96 ha) to soybean crop, followed by other crops such as groundnut (0.85 ha), paddy (0.68 ha), finger millet (0.47 ha) and maize (0.46 ha), whereas kharif vegetable crops got minimum land allocation (0.24 ha). The net benefit accrued from the optimal cropping plan varies with available water yield and total number of Sl requirement. It increases with increase of available water yield , but decreases with increase of number of Sl requirement. The optimal size of proposed RWHS bring maximum cropped area (3.66 ha out of 7.56 ha) under supplementary irrigation, manages both land, water resources optimally on watershed basis and results in to maximum net benefit thereof."