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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 Economics × Author: AMRUTHA, SAVARAM × Start date: 1986 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FARMERS’ INDEBTEDNESS IN VISAKHAPATNAM DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
    (Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur, 2018) AMRUTHA, SAVARAM; RAMA RAO, I.V.Y.
    Agriculture and natural calamities are going at tandem since time immemorial. But, its severity is increasing now-a-days, thereby, negatively affecting the agriculture production prospects and making the farmers to end up in a debt trap. This led some of the farmers to commit suicides in many states including agro-potential states like Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra etc. The problem of indebtedness is an age-old and the disheartening is that it has aggravated further in the recent years. The present research study entitled, “An Economic analysis of Farmers‟ Indebtedness in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh” was taken up with the objectives: to study the extent and magnitude of agricultural credit to the farmers in Visakhapatnam district; to analyse the factors responsible for indebtedness of farmers; to study the impact of Loan Waiver Scheme on farmers and lending agencies and to study the constraints faced by farmers in repayment of loans. In Andhra Pradesh, Visakhapatnam district was selected purposively. Major sources of institutional credit were cooperative and commercial banks. Hence, District Cooperative Central Bank (DCCB) for cooperative sector and State Bank of India (SBI) for commercial sector were selected. The sampling framework consists of one district viz., Visakhapatnam, two institutions viz., DCCB (Co-operative sector) and SBI (Commercial sector), four branches (two each from DCCB and SBI) viz., Kaspa jagannadhapuram and Madugula of DCCB and Kodavatipudi and Narsipatnam ADB of SBI, 30 farmers (15 beneficiaries and 15 non beneficiaries from ADWDRS) from each branch. Thus, in total the sample size was 120 farmer-borrowers. Results emerged-out from analysis revealed that, credit supply by institutional agencies to total agriculture had increased. The share of commercial banks and cooperative banks had increased, whereas, other banks had decreased. Significance of dummy variable for loan waiver scheme in the analysis of factors responsible for indebtedness of farmers shows that there is significant difference between beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries. Other significant independent variables taken into account are viz., Land holding, family expenditure and farming experience. xiv The impact of Loan waiver scheme on lending agencies: Institution wise showed that over dues of the debt waived borrowers and debt relieved borrowers were higher in commercial banks than co-operative banks. While, in borrowers the overdue was higher in debt relieved borrowers than debt waived borrowers. Benefit of ADWDRS (2014-2017) was extended higher by co-operative banks than commercial banks. While, in borrowers debt waived borrowers benefited more than debt relieved borrowers. The major constraints in repayment of debt were adverse climatic conditions, small size of land holdings, rising cost of cultivation, high rate of interest etc. The role of cooperative sector vis-à-vis commercial sector is low. This needs immediate strengthening of co-operative institutions on war-footing. The cumbersome procedure for availing loans from institutional sources should be simplified and further adequate loans should be provided at affordable rates of interest. The educational level and farm experience had positive associations with repayment of debt; there is greater need to educate the farmers on skills of crop rising to improve the productivity. Family expenditure and farming experience were found significant; the policy makers should take into consideration of these factors to formulate the policies in alleviating the debt. The adverse climatic factor was the major factor in non-repayment of debt, hence, government should take necessary measures to speed-up the compensation mechanism, as all crop loanees are insured.