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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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    SUPPLY RESPONSE OF MAJOR MILLETS IN ANDHRA PRADESH
    (ACHARYA N G RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, GUNTUR, 2019) ASHWINI, I BYALIGOUDRA; APARNA, B
    The present study entitled “supply response of major millets in Andhra Pradesh” was undertaken to study the growth rates, instability of sorghum, bajra, ragi, korra, samai and total major millets and also supply response of sorghum, bajra, ragi and korra in Andhra Pradesh and five major districts growing under each crop were selected for the study. The required data for period from 1990-91 to 2017-18 was collected from various published documents of the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Government of Andhra Pradesh. The growth rates of sorghum production and yield were found to be positive in Andhra Pradesh, while Guntur showed increasing trend in all the three attributes. In case of bajra, yield showed increasing trend and area showed declining trend in majority of districts and state level also. Growth rates of ragi, korra and samai with respect to their area were negative in all selected districts and state. The yield growth rate of total major millets was found to be increasing in all selected districts and at state level. The estimates of instability index in area, production and yield of millet crops showed moderate to high variation in majority of the districts. The results of area response at state level showed that lagged area (At-1) has positively influenced the current years’ area allocation by farmers under sorghum (0.54), bajra (0.68), ragi (0.81) and korra (0.82). Rainfall (TRFt) also influenced the area response of the crops such as sorghum and bajra in the state. At the district level studies showed that not only the non- price factors but also the price-factors such as the lagged farm harvest price of competing crop (Pct-1) has influenced the area response of sorghum positively in Guntur xiii but negatively influenced in Kadapa, in Chittoor for area of ragi and also in Kadapa for area of korra . The production response of the selected millet crops showed that lagged farm harvest price (Pt-1) of sorghum has positive influence in Andhra Pradesh and Guntur but negative influence in Ananthapur and also in majority of the districts growing bajra, ragi in Visakhapatnam and Chittoor. At the state level analysis, bajra production response was positively influenced by the total rainfall (TRFt) and ragi production response was also positively influenced by previous year production (Qt-1). The yield response model of millet crops showed that price risk (PR), total rainfall (TRFt) of sorghum and lagged yield (Yt-1) of sorghum and bajra has influenced the yield response model in Andhra Pradesh. The non-price elasticities were found to be elastic in area allocation by farmers in all the selected millets. The previous year prices (Pt-1) of bajra were found to be positive and indifferent in both short-run and long-run for area and yield response of the crop. Rainfall elasticities and price risk (PR) elasticities respectively were found to be responsive in long-run for area allocation of the crop in bajra and korra. In production response, rainfall (TRFt) elasticities of bajra, lagged production of ragi in long-run were found to be positive. In yield response function, non-price elasticities of sorghum, price-elasticities of bajra were found to be elastic for yield allocation by farmers. The coefficient of adjustment was quicker for area response of sorghum in Guntur and Kadapa and also for korra crop in Ananthapur district. In ragi crop, production adjustment require more time in majority of the districts and state level also. Production adjustment of korra in Visakhapatnam showed a very low adjustment co-efficient (0.28). The speed of yield adjustment was 12.70 years in Guntur for sorghum while it was almost in the range of 1-6 years for majority of the selected districts for all the selected major millets in Andhra Pradesh. The overall results indicated that non-price factors are also the important determinants of supply response of millets; hence the government should focus on the development issues which are much needed for increasing the productivity.