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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: NISHA, DEVI × End date: 2020 ×
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    GROWTH AND DIVERSIFICATION OF AGRICULTURE IN MOUNTAIN AREAS: A CASE STUDY OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2018-02) NISHA, DEVI; PRASHER, RAGHBIR SINGH
    ABSTRACT “Crop diversification has emerged an important alternative to attain the objectives of output growth, employment generation and natural resources sustainability in the developing countries. The diversification with commercial crops is now a key strategy that can increase agricultural incomes and minimizes risks due to crop failures. The necessary data used in the current study has been collected from two sources. The primary data was collected from the farmers in four districts of Himachal Pradesh, all from different ecological zones and the secondary data has been collected for a period of 38 years from 1972-73 to 2009-10 from various organizations in Himachal Pradesh. Growth rate, Herfindahl Index, Entropy Index, Simpson Index and Multiple step wise linear regression analysis, Garret ranking technique, F-test, Chow test, Coefficient of Variation were implied for the analysis of data. Growth rates estimated for changes in area and production under different fruits and vegetables crops showed a significant positive growth while the productivity of these crops were low and continue to oscillate over a period of time. Analysis of Herfindahl indices over a period from 1972-73 to 2011-12 revealed that Bilaspur, Chamba, Hamirpur, Kangra, Mandi, Solan and Una were the districts depicting a trend towards specialized agriculture at varying rates. The values of Herfindahl indices were, however, less than 0.5 for all the districts. On the contrary, Kinnaur, Lahaul & Spiti, Kullu, Shimla and Sirmour witnessed tendency towards diversified agriculture at varying extents. Within crop groups some definite trend of diversification was seen in the vegetable group where the Herfindahl index value has shown a decreasing trend from 0.591 in 1972-73 to 0.205 in 2011-12 indicating thereby the clear trend of diversification. Results of log linear regression analysis showed that in zone-I and II agricultural diversification was positively while in zone-III & IV was negatively related with farm productivity and market problems/integration were negatively related with farm productivity in all the zones. Because the selected districts of Zone-III and IV are already diversified. Lack of irrigation facilities, small land holding, price fluctuation, distant markets, inadequate storage facilities, problem in the availability of water resources and incidence of diseases and insect pests attack were the major constraints related to production, marketing and ecology in the study area which were ranked by Garrett Ranking technique.
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    AMELIORATING FARM INCOME THROUGH AGROFORESTRY PRACTICES IN MID-HILL ZONE OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
    (2013) NISHA, DEVI; SHARMA, L.R.
    ABSTRACT In the present study entitled “Ameliorating Farm Income through Agroforestry Practices in Mid-Hill Zone of Himachal Pradesh” cluster sampling technique was used for selection of sampled households from a randomly selected Pachhad block in Sirmaur district. Sample of 30 households were drawn and were divided into small (<2ha), medium (24ha), and large (>4ha) farm categories. Literacy was 92.23% of sampled households. Agriculture was contributing maximum (52.96%) of total farm income followed by livestock and pasture (28.39%), horticulture (10.31%) and forestry (9.06%). So the system identified was Agri-Pastoral-Horti-Silviculture system. At overall level in 2012-13 agricultural income of household was 126278. Agriculture was main occupation of 78% workers. Grassland accounted highest proportion (61.41%) of total land holding. Average holding of farmers was 2.41 ha. and the share of cultivated land varied between 31.57% (medium farms) to 45.64 % small farms. Vegetables like tomato, capsicum, beans, peas comprised of 46.65% area, followed by cereals (43%) like maize, wheat, barley and agroforestry (8.21%) of gross cropped area. At overall level cropping intensity was 178.58% and density of trees was 42 trees per ha, which was highest on large farms. Average livestock holding of farmers was 7.04, comprised of cross-breed and local and are partly stallfed and partly grazed. Total cost incurred on components of system was 1.82 lacs and net income was Rs. 2.38 lacs. There was 100% adoption of HYVs in vegetables while 93% and 90% in maize and wheat. On an average farmers were using pesticides of Rs 6372 per ha and 104.63 kg fertilizers per ha of gross cropped area. Average crop yields of maize, tomato, capsicum, beans, wheat, barley and peas was 23.92, 188.29, 118.4, 86.58, 16.19, 17.16 and 64.47 Qtls per ha. In regression factors like farm size, family size, literacy, number of fragments was found significant and thus affect tree plantation activity on farms. Study showed that there was scope of increasing incremental income by Rs 29722 per ha from grassland by adopting new technology given by UHF Nauni, while, existing AF technology was more paying than new technology on cultivated land because wild Pomegranate was valuable species growing in that area. At overall level there exist scope of increasing net income of Rs. 26430 by further planting wild pomegranate trees on small (2), medium(7) and large(12) farm Category. Inadequate irrigation facilities, insect-pest and ravages of wild birds and animals were main problems in agriculture and horticulture. Non-availability of novel tree species, barriers for cutting of trees, long gestation period were problems related to forestry in study area. In pasture and livestock major problems were overgrazing and deforestation, poor quality of grasses. Lack of participatory approach, lack of involvement of social institutions and lack of incentives to farmers were some of the other problems in adopting agroforestry practices.