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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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    A STUDY ON INFORMATION MANAGEMENT BEHAVIOUR OF RICE FARMERS UNDER COLLECTIVE FARMING OF KUDUMBASHREE MISSION IN KANNUR DISTRICT OF KERALA
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, 2016) ANUSHA ANWAR; RAMBABU, P
    Information being crucial input in the field of agriculture, the farmers need to improve upon their traditional ways of farming and therefore, the farmers have to be always in the pursuit of timely and relevant scientific information. But a big gap exists between the available technologies and their rapid transfer to the farmers. A good technique of information management will certainly reduce this gap, if not eliminate it. Rice cultivation has been part and parcel of Kerala’s culture but the area and production of paddy had declined over the past years. Land brought under paddy cultivation has been declining drastically for the past few years. It is in such context that the Kudumbashree mission started the collective farming project with the objective of revamping the paddy cultivated area in the state. Increased financial returns and sustainable employment opportunities have given the women beneficiaries a sense of security and hope for future. Moreover it has helped in increasing the agricultural production by bringing fallow and cultivable waste land into agricultural production process. Keeping the above in view, a research study was designed to assess the information management behaviour of rice farmers under the collective farming of Kudumbashree mission in Kannur district of Kerala. An ex-post facto research design was followed to conduct the study with a total of 120 women rice farmers selected from two blocks. The data was collected through pre-tested interview schedule, which was subjected for statistical analysis and interpreted. Findings of the study indicated that majority of the women rice farmers were middle aged with high school education with their occupation of agriculture + animal husbandry, more than 15 years of farming experience, medium family size, marginal farmers, married, medium annual income, better training received and medium level of social participation, extension contact, loan borrowing and utilization behaviour, economic motivation, scientific orientation and market orientation. Majority of the women rice farmers had medium level of information input, information processing, information output and information management behaviour. Cent per cent of the women rice farmers regularly contacted the personal localite sources like fellow Kudumbashree members followed by neighbours (96.67%), local leaders (88.33%) and panchayaths (80.00%). Again cent per cent of the women rice farmers regularly contacted personal cosmopolite sources such as Kudumbashree officials followed by 93.33 per cent had regular contact with agriculture officer followed by bank personnels (86.67%), trainings (76.67%) and demonstrations (63.33%). Most of the women rice farmers (98.33%) had mobile phones followed by television (93.33%), newspapers (90.00%), agricultural magazines (80.00%) and Krishimela / exhibitions (73.33%). All the women rice farmers (100%) used discussing with Kudumbashree members followed by judging in the light of past experience (91.67%), discussing with fellow farmers (85.00%), discussing with neighbours (80.83%), judging by considering its economic feasibility (78.33%), judging by considering the degree of complexity (74.17%), discussing with local leaders (73.33%) and discussing with extension family members (65.00%) Most of the women rice farmers (95.00%) stored the information by memorizing the information followed by taking hints in a note book / diary (85.00%), preserving the printed literatures like leaflets, bulletins, booklets etc (71.67%) and preserving the newspaper cuttings (35.00%) as the methods for information storage. None of them had the habit of preserving the information in a CD or a floppy disc. A large percentage of the women rice farmers utilized the information for postharvest and marketing operations (45.83%) followed by application of fertilizers and pesticides (38.33%), selection of seed material (26.67%) and scheduling the irrigation (23.33%). Most women rice farmers (96.67%) regularly used the information output channels like discussing with fellow farmers followed by participating in farmer’s training programmes (74.17%) and discussing with extension workers (70.00%). The correlation analysis indicated that out of 15 independent variables, eight of them such as education, annual income, social participation, extension contact, training received, economic motivation, scientific orientation and market orientation were found to be positive and significant in their relationship with the information input behaviour, information processing behaviour, information output behaviour and with information management behaviour at 0.05 level of probability. Whereas age, occupation, farming experience, family size, land holding, status of women and loan borrowing and utilization behaviour were found to be non - significant. The Multiple Linear Regression Analysis revealed that the selected independent variables put together contribute 68.18 per cent of the total variation in the information management behaviour of the rice farmers. Education, social participation, extension contact, training received, economic motivation, scientific orientation and market orientation had contributed significantly at 0.05 level of probability towards the variation in the information management behaviour of rice farmers. Remaining 31.82 per cent may be due to extraneous characteristics. Most (81.67%) of the women rice farmers stated that lack of experience in storage and transformation of information was the major constraints followed by other constraints like increasing workload of functionaries and mounting aversion to voluntarism (75.83%), lack of need-based training (54.17%). Most of the women rice farmers (85.00%) suggested that training should be specific and given on a need oriented basis to overcome the problems in their information management behaviour followed by reducing the workload assigned to the functionaries of the Kudumbashree (73.33%), computer based knowledge be imparted to all Kudumbashree members (65.00%), follow-up should be conducted on a regular basis (61.67%), marketing should be done through co-operatives marketing chain and incorporate new strategies (50.83%).