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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: Environmental Science × Author: VIDYA, DEVI × End date: 2014 × Start date: 2014 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    STUDY ON WEATHER PARAMETERS AND PEOPLE’S PERCEPTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN KULLU DISTRICT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH
    (UHF,NAUNI, 2014) VIDYA, DEVI; AGGARWAL, R.K.
    ABSTRACT The present investigation entitled “Study on weather parameters and people’s perception on climate change in Kullu District of Himachal Pradesh” was conducted during 2013-2014 in the Department of Environmental Science, Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni, Solan. Weather data for three stations (Bhunter, Katrain, Seobag) over the period (1991-2005, 1972-2008, 1999-2013) respectively and data related to people’s perception about climate change of Banjar block of Kullu district were analyzed. To know the trend of weather parameters on annually, seasonally, monthly, and weekly basis various measures of central tendency and variation (mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis) were computed. To know variability amongst three sites the Bartlett’s χ2 test was employed. Karl Person’s coefficient of correlation between all possible pairs of weather parameters viz., maximum temperature (X 1), minimum temperature (X 2), relative humidity (X 3 ), and rainfall (X 4 ) were worked out for three stations under study. Regression coefficient whereby different functions including quadratic, cubic, compound, growth, exponential and logistic functions were fitted and the best fit equations wasselected on the basis of r 2 value. The results of variability analysis revealedno significant trends for selected weather parameters. The variability amongst three sites revealed that there was significant variation in case of minimum temperature (X 2), relative humidity (X 3 ) and rainfall (X 4). However, no significant variation was found in case of maximum temperature (X 1 ) among the selected sites. There is a significant positive correlation between maximum temperature and minimum temperature (r = 0.66); relative humidity and minimum temperature (r = 0.79); rainfall and minimum temperature (r = 0.73) and rainfall and relative humidity (r = 0.90) for station Bhunter. The correlation studies for Katrain station revealed that there is significant positive correlation between relative humidity and minimum temperature (r = 0.62). Similarly for Seobag correlation matrix revealed that there is a significant positive correlation between maximum temperature and minimumtemperature (r = 0.73); relative humidity and rainfall (r = 0.43). In case of regression analysis cubic function was found to be best fit for selected weather parameters. This indicated the non linear trend between time and selected weather parameters over the study period. In regression analysis on annual basis the highest r 2 values for maximum temperature amongst three stations was 0.57 for Seobag, whereas for minimum temperature the highest r 2 value was 0.65 for Katrain, for relative humidity the highest r 2 value was 0.63 for Katrain and for rainfall the highest r 2 value was 0.44 for Bhunter. General perception of the people aboutthe climate change in the study area showed that climate change is affecting significantly the area of production, soil, natural resources and vegetations etc. They perceived variations in temperature, snowfall and rainfall, similarly the variation has been observed in actual weather data of three stations. The results from people’s perception and actual data are hinting toward the change in weather parameters.