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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: BHAGYASHREE, S PATILKHEDE × End date: 2016 × Start date: 2010 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    (ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, 2014) BHAGYASHREE, S PATILKHEDE; GOPI KRISHNA, T
    Women constitute 48.52 per cent of the country’s total population as per the census 2011. Women exclusively accounted for 586.5 million constituting 48.52 percent of the country’s population. The origin of Self Help Groups can be traced to 1976, when Prof. Mohammed Yunus of Bangladesh started women’s group in Bangladesh. He began experimenting with micro-credit and women Self Help Groups. The strategy made a quiet revolution in Bangladesh; in poverty eradication by empowering the poor women. This group later developed into the Bangladesh Grameena Bank. In India, the pioneer in this field was Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). The objective of Self Help Groups is to improve economic health, education and social status of rural women by providing the required income generating activities to earn their livelihood. Maharashtra state and Thane district have been selected. Two Talukas/Tehsils and Six villages were chosen by random sampling a total of 90 respondents were chosen from the selected Women Self Help Groups, one each from the six villages selected randomly. The study was conducted by following an Ex-Post-Facto Research Design. The data was collected by personal interview method through pretested structured interview schedule. Appropriate statistical procedures such as Mean, Standard Deviation, Frequency, Percentages, Correlation and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis were employed to analyze and interpret the data. Findings of the study indicated that majority of the members of the Women Self Help Groups were middle Aged (52.22%), with High School Level of Education (34.45%), low Annual Income (73.34%), Married (87.78%), medium Family Size (68.89%) and Nuclear Family Type (53.33%), medium scale Enterprise (56.67%), low Net Returns (62.22%), medium Loan Borrowing Behaviour (70.00%), medium Incubation Period (50.00%), medium Risk Orientation (57.78%), medium Market Orientation (64.44%), medium Management Orientation (64.45%), medium Level of Capacity Building (78.89%) and medium Level of Empowerment (65.65%). Out of the twelve selected Personal and Socio-Economic characteristics, Age, Education, Annual income, Marital Status, Nature of Family, Enterprise, Loan Borrowing Behaviour, Risk Orientation, Market Orientation, Management Orientation were positively significant and the remaining variables, Net Returns and Incubation Period showed non-significant relation with Level of Capacity Building at 0.01 level of probability. Age, Education, Annual Income and Market Orientation significantly contributed at 0.05 level of probability towards Level of Capacity Building. Out of the twelve selected Personal and Socio-Economic characteristics, Age, Education, Annual income, Marital Status, Nature of Family, Enterprise, Loan Borrowing Behaviour, Risk Orientation, Market Orientation, Management Orientation were positively significant and the remaining variables Net Returns and Incubation Period showed non-significant relation with Level of Empowerment at 0.01 level of probability. Age, Education, Annual Income, Net Returns and Market Orientation significantly contributed at 0.05 level of probability towards Level of Empowerment. Major constraints identified were inadequate financial support, training programmes, supervision and guidance by organizational officials, nonrelevancy of technical knowledge and inadequate co-operation among the members. Important suggestions were adequate financial support, conduct of proper training programmes, supervision by the organizational officials and making availability of credit at low interest rate
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