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Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat

Assam Agricultural University is the first institution of its kind in the whole of North-Eastern Region of India. The main goal of this institution is to produce globally competitive human resources in farm sectorand to carry out research in both conventional and frontier areas for production optimization as well as to disseminate the generated technologies as public good for benefitting the food growers/produces and traders involved in the sector while emphasizing on sustainability, equity and overall food security at household level. Genesis of AAU - The embryo of the agricultural research in the state of Assam was formed as early as 1897 with the establishment of the Upper Shillong Experimental Farm (now in Meghalaya) just after about a decade of creation of the agricultural department in 1882. However, the seeds of agricultural research in today’s Assam were sown in the dawn of the twentieth century with the establishment of two Rice Experimental Stations, one at Karimganj in Barak valley in 1913 and the other at Titabor in Brahmaputra valley in 1923. Subsequent to these research stations, a number of research stations were established to conduct research on important crops, more specifically, jute, pulses, oilseeds etc. The Assam Agricultural University was established on April 1, 1969 under The Assam Agricultural University Act, 1968’ with the mandate of imparting farm education, conduct research in agriculture and allied sciences and to effectively disseminate technologies so generated. Before establishment of the University, there were altogether 17 research schemes/projects in the state under the Department of Agriculture. By July 1973, all the research projects and 10 experimental farms were transferred by the Government of Assam to the AAU which already inherited the College of Agriculture and its farm at Barbheta, Jorhat and College of Veterinary Sciences at Khanapara, Guwahati. Subsequently, College of Community Science at Jorhat (1969), College of Fisheries at Raha (1988), Biswanath College of Agriculture at Biswanath Chariali (1988) and Lakhimpur College of Veterinary Science at Joyhing, North Lakhimpur (1988) were established. Presently, the University has three more colleges under its jurisdiction, viz., Sarat Chandra Singha College of Agriculture, Chapar, College of Horticulture, Nalbari & College of Sericulture, Titabar. Similarly, few more regional research stations at Shillongani, Diphu, Gossaigaon, Lakhimpur; and commodity research stations at Kahikuchi, Buralikson, Tinsukia, Kharua, Burnihat and Mandira were added to generate location and crop specific agricultural production packages.

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    SCOPE OF AUGMENTING FARMERS’ INCOME IN SMALL TEA PLANTATIONS - A CASE STUDY IN TITABOR SUB-DIVISION OF JORHAT DISTRICT
    (AAU, Jorhat, 2019-07) Bordoloi, Shyamal Kishore; Deka, M.
    The study entitled “Scope of Augmenting Farmers’ Income in Small Tea Plantations- A case study in Titabar Sub Division of Jorhat district” was undertaken with the following objectives: 1. To study the socio-economic status of the small tea growers 2. To examine the existing farming systems and utilization of resources 3. To identify the constraints and measures for augmenting the farm income. The present study was conducted in Titabar Sub division of Jorhat district, which include two development blocks viz. Titabar development block and Jorhat East development block. The sample selection was done using Stratified Random Sampling technique, for which information was collected from Primary sources and Secondary sources. Primary data were collected through interview technique with structured interview schedule prepared by the researcher. The socio economic status study of the small tea growers revealed that major section of the farmers belong to the age group 15-60 years (62.85%) where involvement of male was found to be highest (59.11%) and most of the farmers had educational qualification of HS standard (37.34%) where females constitute the highest (51.91%). The study on farming systems revealed that in the study area the researcher found five types farming systems viz. Tea, Field & Horticulture crops, Plantation crops excluding tea (FS-I), Tea, Field & Horticulture crops, Plantation crops excluding tea, Fishery (FS-II), Tea, Field & Horticulture crops, Fishery (FS-III), Tea, Field & Horticulture crops (FS-IV) and Tea, Plantation crops excluding tea (FS-V). Among the farming systems the no. of respondents was found to be highest in FS-I and lowest in FS-IV. The variable cost involved in various farming systems was found to be highest in FS-II (Rs. 163946.96 farm-1yr-1) and was lowest in FS-IV (Rs. 52420.20 farm-1yr-1) whereas after doing ANOVA single factor analysis of the Benefit Cost ratios, it was found that FS-II has the highest mean value (2.92) and FS-IV has the lowest mean (0.89) which was due to variation in inclusion of different components in the farming systems. Studying the various constraints, it was found that the number of physical constraints were highest and social constraints were lowest, from where it can be analysed that there is a great scope of overcoming the constraints as major constraints was found under physical category which can be rectified by following proper farming practices. Small tea growers of the study area had a wide scope of augmenting the income from their limited farm resources by following proper cultivation practices, moving towards organic tea cultivation, forming farmer producer company through which they can collectively bargain for inputs and sell the tea in a common platform. Involving high yielding varieties of other components, crop rotation, diversification of enterprise, proper utilization of fallow land and market consciousness can help in increasing the income from the other components other than tea.