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Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur

The Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) was established on 12th June 1964 at Hyderabad. The University was formally inaugurated on 20th March 1965 by Late Shri. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India. Another significant milestone was the inauguration of the building programme of the university by Late Smt. Indira Gandhi,the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India on 23rd June 1966. The University was renamed as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University on 7th November 1996 in honour and memory of an outstanding parliamentarian Acharya Nayukulu Gogineni Ranga, who rendered remarkable selfless service for the cause of farmers and is regarded as an outstanding educationist, kisan leader and freedom fighter. HISTORICAL MILESTONE Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) was established under the name of Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) on the 12th of June 1964 through the APAU Act 1963. Later, it was renamed as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University on the 7th of November, 1996 in honour and memory of the noted Parliamentarian and Kisan Leader, Acharya N. G. Ranga. At the verge of completion of Golden Jubilee Year of the ANGRAU, it has given birth to a new State Agricultural University namely Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University with the bifurcation of the state of Andhra Pradesh as per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act 2014. The ANGRAU at LAM, Guntur is serving the students and the farmers of 13 districts of new State of Andhra Pradesh with renewed interest and dedication. Genesis of ANGRAU in service of the farmers 1926: The Royal Commission emphasized the need for a strong research base for agricultural development in the country... 1949: The Radhakrishnan Commission (1949) on University Education led to the establishment of Rural Universities for the overall development of agriculture and rural life in the country... 1955: First Joint Indo-American Team studied the status and future needs of agricultural education in the country... 1960: Second Joint Indo-American Team (1960) headed by Dr. M. S. Randhawa, the then Vice-President of Indian Council of Agricultural Research recommended specifically the establishment of Farm Universities and spelt out the basic objectives of these Universities as Institutional Autonomy, inclusion of Agriculture, Veterinary / Animal Husbandry and Home Science, Integration of Teaching, Research and Extension... 1963: The Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) Act enacted... June 12th 1964: Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) was established at Hyderabad with Shri. O. Pulla Reddi, I.C.S. (Retired) was the first founder Vice-Chancellor of the University... June 1964: Re-affilitation of Colleges of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Hyderabad (estt. in 1961, affiliated to Osmania University), Agricultural College, Bapatla (estt. in 1945, affiliated to Andhra University), Sri Venkateswara Agricultural College, Tirupati and Andhra Veterinary College, Tirupati (estt. in 1961, affiliated to Sri Venkateswara University)... 20th March 1965: Formal inauguration of APAU by Late Shri. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India... 1964-66: The report of the Second National Education Commission headed by Dr. D.S. Kothari, Chairman of the University Grants Commission stressed the need for establishing at least one Agricultural University in each Indian State... 23, June 1966: Inauguration of the Administrative building of the university by Late Smt. Indira Gandhi, the then Hon`ble Prime Minister of India... July, 1966: Transfer of 41 Agricultural Research Stations, functioning under the Department of Agriculture... May, 1967: Transfer of Four Research Stations of the Animal Husbandry Department... 7th November 1996: Renaming of University as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University in honour and memory of an outstanding parliamentarian Acharya Nayukulu Gogineni Ranga... 15th July 2005: Establishment of Sri Venkateswara Veterinary University (SVVU) bifurcating ANGRAU by Act 18 of 2005... 26th June 2007: Establishment of Andhra Pradesh Horticultural University (APHU) bifurcating ANGRAU by the Act 30 of 2007... 2nd June 2014 As per the Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act 2014, ANGRAU is now... serving the students and the farmers of 13 districts of new State of Andhra Pradesh with renewed interest and dedication...

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Subject: Agricultural Business Management × Author: NARAYANA, M.V. × End date: 2016 × Start date: 2010 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    ANALYSIS OF FOOD SAFETY STANDARDS FOLLOWED BY STREET FOOD VENDORS, RETAILERS, AND HOUSEHOLD WOMEN IN TIRUPATI OF CHITTOR DISTRICT
    (ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, GUNTUR, 2015) NARAYANA, M.V.; PRABHAVATH, Y
    The present study entitled “ANALYSIS WITH REFERENCE TO STREET FOOD VENDORS, RETAILERS, AND HOUSEHOLD WOMEN IN CHITTOR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH ” has been taken up with the objectives namely viz., to evaluate the food safety standards followed by the fruits, meat and Packaged processed food value chains. The sample for the study consisted of 50 household women, 25 street food vendors and 10 retail food value chains selected through purposivc cum random sampling technique. The study pertains to Chittor district of Andhra Pradesh. Education group categorization indicates that 20 per cent of the household women had qualification up to 9th class, 26 per cent has under gone upto intermediate level while 54 per cent were degree holders. Coming to safety standards 18 per cent of the household women followed low food safety standards, 68per cent followed moderate food safety standards and 14 per cent adopted high food safety standards. A greater percentage of sample household women belonged to OC, category. Among general requirements (100%) of the selected households possessed electricity connections, 87.3 per cent of women were found to cook daily 3 times and 84.6 per cent women followed the practice of protecting the ready to eat food protected from contamination. Regarding health and hygiene requirements majority (96%) indicated that they were having proper hand washing facilities. Taking into 13 consideration of cleaning and sanitation maintenance requirements the majority (98.6%) are mentioned that house toilets were maintained in cleanly condition, followed by 97.3 per cent maintained kitchen in cleanly condition. There was no significant association between opinions given by the sample household women while buying food protected from contamination with respective age groups, education groups, and social groups. In terms of general requirements street food vendors had 86.6 per cent knowledge on license to run the business, with 42.6 per cent displaying current licence prominently on premises. They were also having 84 per cent knowledge on food protected from contamination at the receiving point , 40 per cent knowledge on food stored in contamination free environment and 37.3 per cent knowledge on methods used to cool food and heating /reheating procedures. Taking health and hygiene requirements into consideration the respondents were having 81.3 per cent knowledge on ensuring staff members not to engage in food handling if they were suffering from food borne illness or sickness. Among the respondents 74.6 per cent were following cleaning and sanitation maintenance requirements for kitchen. Out of sample respondents of 4 restaurants 50 per cent followed low food safety standards 25 per cent followed moderate food safety standards and again the same per cent followed high food safety standards. Out of the 3 chicken retail outlets 33 per cent each followed low, moderate and high food safety standards. All the 3 selected retail super markets followed moderate food safety standards.