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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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Subject: Agricultural Economics × Author: GULERIA, AMIT × Start date: 1994 ×
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    ECONOMIC IMPACT OF MID HIMALAYAN WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ON AGRICULTURAL FARMS IN HIMACHAL PRADESH
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2018-05-24) GULERIA, AMIT; RANDEV, A.K.
    ABSTRACT The present study has been carried out in the purposively selected Solan, Sirmour and Mandi districts of the state by selecting randomly a sample of 270 respondents comprising of 180 beneficiaries and 90 nonbeneficiaries, in terms of 2:1 ratio for the comparison of both the categories of respondents. The results revealed that average family size at overall level comprises of 5.54 and 5.44 persons and sex ratio has been found to be 910 and 921 females per thousand males for beneficiary and non-beneficiary farms, respectively. The overall literacy rate has been found to be 91.67 and 89.89 per cent, while literacy index has been worked out to be 2.69 and 2.60 for beneficiary and non-beneficiary farms, respectively. Agriculture has been found to be the main occupation as 72.29 per cent of workforce practice farming on beneficiary farms and 73.95 per cent on nonbeneficiary farms. Average size of land holding has been found to be 1.29 and 1.34 ha on beneficiary and nonbeneficiary farms respectively. The cultivated land and orchard area accounted for 41.62 and 1.65 per cent of total land holding in case of beneficiary farms whereas 33.80 and 0.13 per cent of total land holding for nonbeneficiary farms at overall basis. Irrigated land has been found to be 28.00 and 10.63 per cent of total land holding in case of beneficiary and non-beneficiary farms, respectively. The overall cropping intensity of beneficiary farms has been 196.51 per cent which has been significantly higher than the overall cropping intensity of non-beneficiary farms i.e. 156.96 per cent, indicating a shift towards high-value cash crops and better use of land resources accomplished by more irrigation available on beneficiary farms. Overall adult cattle unit (ASU) has found to be 3.65 on beneficiary farms and 2.86 on non-beneficiary farms. Agriculture sector has contributed a major share in total household income on both types of farms. The Gini Concentration Ratio has lower value (0.3831) for beneficiaries as compared to non-beneficiaries (0.4296), indicating that the income has been found to be more evenly distributed among beneficiaries. Productivity, total household income, gross farm income, net farm income and output input ratio have been found to be higher on beneficiary farms as compared to non-beneficiary farms. Beneficiary farms have utilized more land under high value crops than cereals as compared to non-beneficiary farms. Per hectare utilization of labour, fertilizer, seed and plant protection measures have been found to be lower on beneficiary farms as compared to non-beneficiary farms, whereas, more labour for irrigation has been utilized by beneficiary farms. In functional analysis, the included variables explained 95.0 per cent of variation in major crops for beneficiary and 98.0 percent for non-beneficiary farms in overall category and both types of farms have been operating in increasing return to scale i.e., 1.28 and 1.23 respectively, significant at p<0.01 indicating sub optimal use of most of the inputs. A significant positive difference has been found between beneficiary and non-beneficiary farms as values of dummy variable has worked out to be +0.06 indicating positive contribution of each input added to their gross income by 0.06 per cent. In spite, of the above benefits from the project, beneficiaries encountered some major problems viz. price fluctuations in perishable crops (76.75 %), stray/wild animal menace (72.38 %) and ineffectiveness of gram panchayats (60.56 %). The study has suggested to increase cold storage facility; to frame policy for wild animal menace specially monkey; to provide good extension services and stream line working of gram panchayats.
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    ECONOMICS OF PRODUCTION AND MARKETING OF NTFPS: A CASE STUDY OF HARAR (Terminalia chebula) IN HIMACHAL PRADESH
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2014) GULERIA, AMIT; SHARMA, RAVINDER
    ABSTRACT Present study analyzed the “Economics of Production and Marketing of NTFPs: A case study of ”, a sample of 20 farmers and 5 contractors each from Sirmour and Kangra dist. of Himachal Pradesh. Besides this, 10 other market functionaries from the Amritsar market were also selected for the study. Results revealed that nearly 85.91 per cent family members are literates with literacy indices of 0.92 indicating low quality of education. The total area under harar was more on field boundaries (0.18 ha) in comparis on to pasture land (0.06 ha). The area under hararwas found to have a positive relation with the size of the farm. Cropping intensity was 160.00 per cent, which indicates that there is a scope for increase in farm efficiency. Cost of collection of hararin the study area was Rs. 1042.01 per quintal.About 2.5 quintal of green hararis needed to prepare one quintal of dry harar. The processing cost of one quintal of dry hararwas estimated Rs 5511.50. Average establishment cost per year was Rs 13550 per 100 plants. The maintenance cost of grafted harar increased from Rs 12241.78 to Rs 123675.30 during 2 nd year to 15 th year and net returns varied from Rs (-) 12241 to 116262. The pay back period worked out to be 9 years, NPV as Rs 226,106, the benefit-cost ratio as 1.57 and internal rate of return (IRR) as 33 per cent under the present value summation method. The Gini concentration ratios for green hararand driedharar was 0.40 and 0.16 respectively and relative mean deviation (RMD) was found 0.183 and 0.20 in case ofgreen and dried harar respectively and indicating that there exist a high degree of competitiveness for dried hararas well as for green hararin Amritsar market. which means market for both types of the products is competitive. Coefficient of variation (CV) in the case of green harar was found 0.43 as compared to 0.51 in case of dried harar. A lower value is indicative of higher completion in the market. The entropy index whose value lies between 0 and 1 and higher value implies higher competition. The value of entropy index for green harar was found 0.97 and for dried harar0.94. In the Amritsar market it was found that commission charged varied from 6 to 10 per cent in addition to a market fee of 2 per cent of the transaction. In addition to this, Rs 40 per quintal is charged as state tax by the forest department of the state since hararis considered as forest produce. Though 1 per centis charged as rural development fund but the facilities in the market are of poor quality. System of sale is through open sale; however market intelligence is only through personal communication only. It was found in the study that Producer – Local Trader – Primary wholesaler – Secondary wholesalers - Consumer (Channel- D) was found to be the most preferred channel, since 50.63 per cent of the produce was traded through this channel and marketing cost incurred in this channel was also maximum as compared with others i.e. Rs. 2139.01. Producer’s price varied from Rs 1013 to Rs.1757.99 among different channels. Net marketing margins varied between16.78to 35.42 per cent. The technical problems faced by the farmers were long gestation period, lack of planting material and irrigation facilities. Marketing problems included distant markets, lack of transportation facilities and behavior of wholesalers for not taking the consent of the collectors/producers while selling the produce. Problems such as long gestation period from planting to harvesting and monkey menace were ranked as high severity. Higher profitability of harar as compared to other crops in the study area was the major factor responsible for the cultivation of harar.