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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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    STUDY OF SEASONAL RAINFALL IMPACT ON RAINFED AGRICULTURE AND MAJOR WATER BODIES IN BULDHANA DISTRICT USING RS AND GIS.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2017-10-09) KUTE, PRERANA SUKHALAL.; SATPUTE, Dr. G. U.
    Agriculture is primarily dependent on regional climate and among the different climatic factors, rainfall is a scare and an important hydrological variable that plays important role in dryland agriculture. For proper agriculture planning, management and to minimize drought risk it is essential to know the stable rainfall period of seasonal rainfall and length of crop growing period. The study was carried out in Buldhana district of Vidarbha region by analyzing monthly seasonal rainfall during 1998 – 2016 at different taluka places for identification of stable rainfall period, length of growing period and drought characterization. The drought, excess and normal rainfall years were identified on the basis aridity index and metrological drought method. The years 2013, 2014 and 2016 were selected as excess rainfall, drought year and normal rainfall respectively. The changes in agriculture vegetation and water spread area of major water bodies during drought rainfall year and excess rainfall year over normal rainfall year were estimated by using LISS-III sensor data of Landsat satellite images in GIS environment. The impact of different category rainfall years on productivity of cotton, mung, tur and soybean crop was studied. The stable rainfall period in different talukas of Buldhana district varies from 48 to 97 days. The length of growing period in different talukas of Buldhana district ranges from 116 to 138 days. Drought categorization and its distribution using aridity index and meteorological classification in the study area indicated that out of 19 years study period, wide spread drought covering more than 50 per cent of the stations occurred during 8 years (42.1 % years) and 7 years (36.8 % years) respectively. The agriculture vegetation pixel count increases by 41.8 percent during excess rainfall year over normal rainfall year in different talukas of Buldhana district. The water spread area of major water bodies in Buldhana district reduces from 3.5 to 18.9 per cent during drought rainfall year (2014), whereas the same was increased by 3.6 to 30.5 per cent during excess rainfall year (2013) over normal rainfall year (2016). The agricultural productivity of different rainfed crops (cotton, mung, tur and soybean) decreases during drought rainfall years over excess and normal rainfall years, due to the shortage of rainfall to fulfil the crop water requirements during the dry period of drought years.