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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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Subject: Agricultural Extension × Author: BLESSY T THOMAS × End date: 2018 × Start date: 2015 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    IMPACT OF MAJOR GOVERNMENT SCHEMES ON SOCIALLY BACKWARD FARMING COMMUNITY IN IDUKKI DISTRICT OF KERALA
    (IMPACT OF MAJOR GOVERNMENT SCHEMES ON SOCIALLY BACKWARD FARMING COMMUNITY IN IDUKKI DISTRICT OF KERALA, 2018) BLESSY T THOMAS; SATHYA GOPAL, PV
    The present study was conducted with broad objective of identifying the impact of major Government schemes on socially backward farming community in Idukki district of Kerala. The study was framed in such manner to explore the profile characteristics of socially backward farmers, impact of Government schemes analyzed through individual respondent wise impact and individual scheme wise impact along with dependence of impact Government schemes and profile characteristics. The factors influencing the impact of various Government schemes on the socially backward farming community and suggestions for enhancing the impact of Government schemes as perceived by the socially backward farming community was also elicited. Ex-post-facto research design was used in the present investigation. Idukki district of Kerala was selected purposively. Three taluks viz., Devikulam, Peerumedu and Udumbenchola of Idukki district were selected through simple random sampling procedure. From each selected taluks four villages were selected randomly and from each selected village, ten socially backward farmers were selected, making a total of 120 respondents for the study. The analysis of the profile characteristics of the farmers indicates that majority of the socially backward farmers are middle aged, high school educated, with marginal land holding, medium annual income, social participation, mass media exposure, aspiration levels, extension contact, decision making ability, achievement motivation and management orientation. The respondents were classified into three categories according to their perceived level of impact and it was indicated that majority of respondents xiv perceived medium impact. And scheme wise analysis revealed that overall awareness, overall knowledge, overall utilization, overall impact on productivity and overall impact on standard of living were 43.91 per cent 29.04 per cent, 16.58 per cent, 13.10 per cent and 11.64 per cent, respectively. Correlation analysis revealed that social participation, mass media exposure, aspiration level, extension contact, decision making ability, achievement motivation and management orientation were positively and significantly related at 0.01 level of significance whereas land holding, social status and annual income were positively significant at 0.05 level of significance. Education was found to be positively non-significant whereas age showed negatively nonsignificant relationship with perceived impact of Government schemes. The regression analysis revealed that out of all the selected 12 independent variables put together explained about 57.8 per cent variation in the impact of chosen Government schemes on socially backward farming community. The partial regression coefficients implied that mass media exposure and management orientation were the most important variables that contributed to most of the variation in the perceived impact of Government schemes under study. The factors influencing the extend of impact of Government schemes in the order of magnitude perceived by the respondent farmers in the order were political interference, lack of remunerative prices, accessibility to extension agents, middleman interventions, lack of awareness on ongoing programmes, lack of follow-up activities, poor availability and utilization of mass media, inadequate quantity of inputs, small land holding, lack of specific schemes, availability of better options, lack of commitments in the part of department officials, natural calamities, poor access to financial and developmental departments, social status, low economic status, lack of capital for investing, unavailability of suitable agricultural inputs and implements, previous unsatisfactory experience, poor quality of inputs, remoteness from other communities, lack of interest in farm production and illiteracy. The major suggestions furnished by the respondents to manipulate the impact influencing factors included ‘specific schemes targeting socially backward farmers on various aspects of farm production’, ‘conduct awareness camps and follow-up camps’ ‘relaxation in eligibility criterion to socially backward farmers’, ‘implementation of more credit oriented schemes’, ‘constant monitoring and display of input and service inventory’, ‘transparent and clear procedures so as to eliminate the middleman interventions and political interference’, ‘availability of adequate quality inputs on right time’, ‘establishment and efficient functioning of local crop samities and farmer forums’, ‘adoption of package approach’, ‘increment in number of extension agents’ and ‘system ensuring the remunerative prices of farm products’. A suitable strategy has been developed keeping in view of the results obtained in the study and discussions held with the stakeholders of the study.