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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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Author: GULERIA, AMIT × End date: 2018 × Start date: 2018 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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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.