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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 Extension × Author: ANANTHA VIHARI, M × Start date: 2015 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    A STUDY ON PERCEPTION OF RURAL YOUTH TOWARDS AGRICULTURE AS AN OCCUPATION IN SRIKAKULAM DISTRICT
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, 2018) ANANTHA VIHARI, M; SRINIVASA RAO, M
    Youth are the most potent segment of the population of a country. The youth of today are the hopes of tomorrow. They are the back bone of the country. The socio-economic development and prosperity of rural areas depends to a considerable extent on the type of youth living in rural areas, because the rural youth have abilities to orient themselves to go along with the main stream of the development process. They reflect the national potentiality and represent the life blood of a nation. Development of youth thus determines the development of community and country as a whole. Youth are prone to desire and ready to carry out their desires into action. They have open minds and further they have advantage of education and better capacity of understanding new techniques and skills. The youth thus can serve as best medium of our community-life on the technological as well as human plane by carrying new ideas and messages to their families. Since youth are recognized as effective “change agents”, they can help in the process of dissemination and adoption of modern techniques of agriculture. Active involvement of youth in agriculture is necessary for sustainable agricultural systems but is currently a challenge in many areas. The wide spread illiteracy in rural areas, unemployment among the educated youth, lack of proper guidance, ‘brain drain’ of educated rural youth to urban areas are some of the major problems. It is disturbing to note that youth are losing interest and confidence in agriculture and allied activities; hence, they are not willingly involved in agricultural operations. Considering all above things, the objectives were framed. An ex-post facto research design was followed. The study was conducted in Srikakulam district during the year, 2017-18. Srikakulam district was selected purposively, out of 38 mandals, three mandals were selected purposively and four villages were selected from each of the mandal for the study. Rural youth were selected from each village by following proportionate random sampling method. Thus, 120 rural youth constituted as sample for the study. Data was collected with pretested schedule by personal interview method. For the purpose of statistical analysis of the coded data, various statistical tools were used viz., frequency and percentage analysis, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis and ranking. The detailed analysis of profile characteristics of rural youth indicated that majority of them were married (63.33%), with intermediate (28.33%) education, having small land holdings (37.50%), medium annual income (55.84%), large size families (77.5%), belonging to joint families (75.84%), engaged in Agriculture + Animal husbandry occupation, had medium extension contact (57.50%), low level of social participation (40.83%), medium level of mass media exposure (55.00%), medium level of economic motivation (51.66%), medium level of risk orientation (57.50%), medium level of scientific orientation (54.16%), medium level of innovativeness (59.26%) and medium level of achievement motivation (56.66%). The detailed analysis of dependent variable indicated that majority of rural youth had medium level (63.33%) of perception towards agriculture as an occupation followed by high (20.00%) and low (16.67%). Out of fifteen selected profile characteristics, ten of them viz., marital status, land holdings, family type, social participation, mass media exposure, extension contact, risk orientation, innovativeness, economic motivation, scientific orientation and achievement motivation showed significant relation with the level of perception, while annual income, occupation, size of family, and education had shown non significant relationship. The multiple linear regression analysis (MLR) indicated that all the selected profile characteristics put together explained 76.60% of variance in the level of perception, remaining 23.40% is due to the extraneous effect in unidentified profile characteristics. The most important constraints encountered by the rural youth were, high cost of cultivation, inadequate availability of labor, low returns, pests and diseases problem, inadequate power supply, inadequate and untimely supply of fertilizers, lack of remunerative prices, inadequate irrigation facilities, inadequate training programmes, under employment, inadequate and untimely supply of seed, lack of proper guidance, destruction of crops by wild boars, and inadequate technical know how of chemicals. Suggestions made by the rural youth to overcome the constraints were: adequate and timely supply of fertilizers, financial support timely, supply of pheromone traps, regular supply of power, supply of NSKE, timely information on latest technologies, adequate and timely supply of quality seed, adequate and timely release of water for irrigation, conduct of training programmes and awareness programmes on agriculture to youth and remunerative price for agri products.