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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: SHUBHAM × Start date: 2020 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF DAIRY FARMING IN KANGRA DISTRICT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2021-12) SHUBHAM; SHARMA, RAVINDER
    ABSTRACT The present study entitled “Economic Analysis of Dairy Farming in Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh” was conducted during 2020-21. Multistage random sampling technique was used for the selection of the respondents from the randomly selected five blocks named Baijnath, Dehra, Kangra, Indora, Nagrota-Surian out of 15 blocks. Then 2 villages from each selected block were selected randomly and 10 dairy farming households from each selected villages were selected randomly to constitute a sample size of 100 for the collection of the primary data. For the analysis of data all the dairy farmers were classified into three categories on the basis of Standard Animal Unit and cube root frequency method viz., small category (≤5.52), medium category (5.52-11.66) and large category (>11.66). Socio- economic analysis of the farmers revealed an average size of 4.99 members with the literacy rate of 88.65 per cent and index of 2.51. Dependency ratio w.r.t to total workers and w.r.t to family was 0.35 and 0.25. The cultivated land accounted for 67.22 per cent of total land holding. The crop intensity of 178.60 per cent was found in the study area. The average no. of cattle units were 5.21 of which 7.73, 47.2, 23.99, 7.32, 11.20 per cent are local cow, crossbred cow, buffalo, young stock, heifer, respectively. The study revealed that the average milk yield among the local cow found to be 2.88 litre per day, crossbred cow 7.33 litre per day and in buffalo 4.65 litre per day, cost per litre of milk production was highest in buffalo followed by local cow and crossbred cow Rs 39.53, 36.21, 29.24, respectively and highest returns were noticed in crossbred cow followed by buffalo and local cow 8.04, 5.23, 0.29, respectively among sampled households. The average daily milk production and milk consumption pattern was noticed 25.80 litre and 4.76 litre per day in sampled households. The marketable surplus was 21.04 litre and it was noticed that factors like income land holding and total milk yield has positive relationship and family size has negative relationship with the marketable surplus among sampled households. Main problems in the study area cost of feed and fodder, scarcity of fodder, lack of credits and funds, lower price of the milk, labour intensive farming etc. It was noticed that with the 1 per cent increase in the expenditure on the green fodder, dry fodder, concentrates and labour per farm per day will change in the income 0.29%, 0.49%, 0.13% and 0.12%, respectively among sampled households per day.