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Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Solan

Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan, was established on 1st December, 1985 with the objective to promote education, research and extension education in the fields of Horticulture, Forestry and allied disciplines. Late Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar, the first Chief Minister and the architect of Himachal Pradesh perceived the importance of Horticulture and Forestry to develop and improve the State economy which led to the establishment of this University. Its history lies in erstwhile Himachal Agricultural College, Solan, established in 1962 and affiliated to the Panjab University. It became one of the campuses of Agriculture Complex of Himachal Pradesh University on its formation in 1970. Consequent upon the establishment of Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya in 1978, this campus became its Horticulture Complex and finally in 1985, assumed the status of a State University, being the only University in the country engaged exclusively in teaching, research and extension in Horticulture and Forestry. The University is located at Nauni in Solan District of Himachal Pradesh, 13 km from Solan on Solan-Rajgarh Road, at an elevation of 1300 metres above mean sea level. Solan town is situated on national highway (NH-22) and is well connected by train and bus services. The University has four constituent colleges, out of which, two are located at the main campus Nauni, one for horticulture and the other for forestry, having 9 and 7 departments, respectively. The third College i.e., College of Horticulture & Forestry is located at Neri in Hamirpur District on Nadaun-Hamirpur state highway, about 6 Km from Hamirpur town and is well connected with bus service. The college offers three Undergraduate Degree Programmes i.e. BSc (Hons.) Horticulture, BSc (Hons.) Forestry and B. Tech. Biotechnology and MSc degree programme in a few subjects. The fourth college i.e. College of Horticulture and Forestry, Thunag (Mandi) is located at Thunag District Mandi. This college offer BSc (Hons.) Horticulture and BSc (Hons.) Forestry degree programme. In addition, there are five Regional Research Stations, 12 Satellite Stations and five Krishi Vigyan Kendras (KVKs) situated in different zones of the State.

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    ASSESSMENT OF TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF NATURAL FARMING IN SUB-TROPICAL REGION OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2024-02-12) Chinglembi Laishram; Subhash Sharma
    Present study “assessment of technical efficiency of natural farming in sub-tropical region of Himachal Pradesh” was carried out in Nalagarh, Ghumarwin, Una and Sundarnagar blocks by taking representative sample of 320 farmers through multistage random sampling having 80 farmers from each block. The average family size was 5.22. Of these, 47.42 per cent were men, 38.72 per cent were females, and 13.85 per cent were children. The literacy rate exhibited variation ranging from 87.13 to 89.10 per cent among different farm categories, with an overall average of 88.30 per cent. The overall literacy index was recorded as 2.70. 78.02 per cent of the studied households were involved in agricultural activities, while 13.48 per cent were engaged in services and 8.50 per cent were involved in business. The dependency ratio w.r.t family size was 0.30 which indicated that on an average one worker has to support less than one family member. The average number of agricultural workers was 3.19. The overall average land holding in the study region was observed to be 1.82 hectares. At an overall level, the total cultivated area accounted for 67.41 per cent, with 32.13 per cent allocated to natural farming and 31.08 per cent dedicated to conventional agricultural practices. The study region encompasses four primary crop combinations, namely: Vegetables, Cereal + Pulses + Vegetables, Cereal + Pulses, and Cereal + Pulses + Oilseed + Vegetables under natural farming system. The main crops cultivated under the Conventional Farming (CF) system for vegetable crops include cucumber, okra, French beans, potato, pea, and cauliflower and for cereal crop consist of maize and wheat. The primary pulses crops cultivated was Black-gram, Soyabean, and Chick-pea. The primary crops cultivated within the Oilseeds category comprise Sesame and Mustard. The Relative Economic Efficiency (REE) was highest in all the crop combination. When comparing natural farming to conventional farming, natural farming resulted in lower carbon equivalent emissions than conventional farming in all the crop combinations.The Stochastic frontier production function approach was used to technical efficiency in different farm category in the study area and was observed that the coefficients of Jivamrit, Bijamrit, Ghanjivamrit, Agniastra, Neemastra and Bramastra were positive and statistically significant at 1, 5 and 10 per cent level, respectively. Individuals in the treated group conserve Rs. 8189.62 more on average than those who are in the control group. The major problem faced by the farmers in different farm categories was non availability of specialized market, labour intensiveness, inadequate training facilities, non-remunerative prices for produce, etc.