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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: PRAVEEN KUMAR, N. S. × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2017 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON PULSE CROPS IN ANDHRA PRADESH: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
    (ACHARYA N G RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, GUNTUR, 2019) PRAVEEN KUMAR, N. S.; RADHA, Y
    Agriculture plays a crucial role in India’s economic development and provides food and livelihood to majority of the Indian population. In developing countries like India, climate change could represent an additional stress on ecological and socioeconomic systems. Climate change is likely to have larger impact on predominantly rainfed crops like pulses that are grown in marginal production environment. Pulses are an integral part of many diets across the globe and they have great potential to improve human health, conserve our soils, protect the environment and contribute to global food security. The United Nations, declared 2016 as “International Year of Pulses” (IYP) to heighten public awareness of the nutritional benefits of pulses as part of sustainable food production aimed at food security and nutrition. India is the largest producer (25% of global production), consumer (27% of world consumption) and importer (14%) of pulses in the world. The present study has been taken up with the overall objective of analyzing the impact of climate change on pulse crops in Andhra Pradesh with the specific objectives as to analyze the growth and instability of area, production and productivity of major pulse crops in Andhra Pradesh, to estimate the vulnerability index of all the districts of Andhra Pradesh, to assess the impact of climate variability on yield and area of pulse crops, to study the farmers’ perceptions of climate change and identify the adaptation strategies in pulse production to mitigate climate change and to suggest suitable policy measures to promote pulses production. The present study was conducted in three districts viz., Anantapur, Prakasm and Srikakulam which were selected based on the highest area under pulses and more vulnerability. The primary data pertains to the year 2015-16. The present study mainly focused on four major pulse crops viz., red gram, bengal gram, green gram and black gram. The sample farmers were selected at random with 80 farmers from each selected district, thus constituting a total sample of 240 farmers for collection of primary data. xii Secondary data on location of district, soil type, rainfall pattern, demographic pattern, land use pattern, cropping pattern, irrigation facilities, credit, etc were obtained from the office of the Assistant Statistical Officer and Statistical Handbooks of respective districts. Besides this the time series data on maximum temperature, minimum temperature, and rainfall data were also collected for the period of 30 years from 1986 to 2016 from IMD and Directorate of Economics and Statistics. Growth rate and instability analysis were carried out to find out the trends in area, production and yield of major pulse crops in Andhra Pradesh during the periods 1996-2005 and 2006-2015. The methodology followed by Iyengar and Sudarshan (1982) was used for identification of vulnerable districts of Andhra Pradesh. Ricardian regression model was employed to study the impact of climatic variables on the yield and area of major pulse crops. Multinomial logit (MNL) model was used to analyze the determinants of farmers’ choice on adaptation strategies. The results of compound growth rate indicated that from 1996-2015, production and yield of redgram, bengalgram, blackgram and greengram were positive and that of the area of red gram and bengalgram were positive where as for greengram and blackgram it was negative. The results of instability analysis indicated that the highest instability in area was recorded in redgram and lowest instability in bengalgram. The highest instability in production was recorded in red gram where as for yield it was highest in bengalgram .The lowest instability in production and yield was recorded in blackgram. The study revealed that among the thirteen districts of Andhra Pradesh, Anantapur district was very highly vulnerable and East Godavari district was less vulnerable during period I (1986-1995) and period II (1996-2005), whereas in period III (2006-2015) the Anantapur district was very highly vulnerable and Nellore was less vulnerable. Anantapur district continued to be in very highly vulnerable group in all the periods under study. Education levels of farmers in the study area indicated that about 35 per cent of the farmers were educated up to high school level. Land holding pattern of the sample farmers revealed that majority (45 per cent) of the farmers were marginal farmers. Farmers having farming experience less than 15 years dominated in all size categories. About 37.91 per cent of the farmers were having experience of less than 15 years. Majority of the farmers borrowed credit from Cooperative society which contributed to an extent of 30.83 per cent. Ricardian regression model for yield of bengalgram, greengram and blackgram indicated that the coefficients of rabi maximum temperature, area, farming experience, extension services were showing a significant influence on yield whereas in case of redgram, kharif maximum temperature, kharif maximum temperature square, kharif rainfall and kharif rainfall square, area, farming experience and extension services were significantly influencing the yield of redgram. Ricardian area regression model for bengalgram, greengram and blackgram indicated that rabi maximum temperature, education, yield, extension services, information on climate were significantly influencing area whereas in case of redgram, kharif rainfall, kharif rainfall square, yield and extension services were significantly influencing area of the redgram. xiii About 36.25 per cent of the farmers perceived decrease in rainfall over the years and more than three-fourth of the farmers, perceived an increase in temperature over the years. Majority of the farmers (15.83 per cent) resort to changing the sowing followed by off-farm activities and change in cropping pattern respectively to cope with the changing climatic conditions. The results of the multinomial logit model revealed that educational attainment, farming experience, farm income and knowledge on climate adaptation of the farmer increased the probability of adapting to climate change. Majority of the farmers opined that reduction in yield was the major impact of climate change. Lack of knowledge and lack of sufficient credit facilities were identified as the major constraints for adaptation of strategies against climate change. Farmers opined that introduction of drought tolerant and heat resistant varieties (73.33 per cent) were the most important intervention required for pulse growing farmers, with provision of adequate and timely institutional credit for crop production. The area under pulse crops should be increased by offering certain incentives to the pulse growing farmers mainly targeting small and marginal farmers. As all the districts in an agro- climatic zone do not fall under the same category of vulnerability, it exemplifies the need for developing location specific measures to overcome the adverse impacts of climate change. The institutional credit flow to small and marginal farmers would help to adapt short and long term strategies effectively need to be strengthened and streamlined. Awareness campaigns and trainings to sensitize the farmers about climate change and its likey impacts on pulse crops shall be arranged by the extension agencies. Weather based crop plans and contingency plans for rainfed areas and weather based crop insurance coverage with low premium to increase the production of pulses shall be provided.