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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 COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOUR OF EXTENSION PERSONNEL OF ANDHRA PRADESH
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, 2018) PRAVEEN BABU, R; SIVANARAYANA, G
    Communication plays very important role in effective implementation of rural development programmes and adoption of new technologies. It is only through communication, the external ideas and new technologies enter the communities. This entails the extension personnel to have thorough understanding of the communication process. Hence the communication behaviour of extension personnel of Andhra Pradesh was studied. The Communication behaviour of the extension personnel was broken into three main components namely information input behaviour, information processing behaviour and information output behaviour. The Department of Agriculture has a strong chain of human resources consisting of more than 2000 extension staff of field and supervisory cadre. At the District level the Department is headed by Joint Director of Agriculture and assisted by DDA's, ADA's and AO's at District, Division and Mandal levels respectively. The Divisional ADA is the head of the Agriculture division assisted by agricultural officers at the mandal level. There are 148 divisions in the state. In all, there 664 Rural and Urban mandals of the state at least one Agriculture Officer is working in each mandal. These AO's are assisted by few Agricultural Extension Officers at village level. The study was conducted in four districts of Andhra Pradesh during 2014. The respondents were selected by proportionate random sampling comprising 240 extension personnel. Considering communication behaviour and Attitude as dependent variables, the Scale was developed for attitude by using summated rating technique. The attitude scale comprised 22 statements. The study was conducted by following an Ex-Post-Facto Research Design. Data were collected by pre-tested instrument followed by personal interview method. Appropriate statistical procedures were employed to analyse and interpret the data. The detailed analysis of the profile characteristics of extension personnel indicated that majority of them were middle aged (75.40 %), 42.90 per cent are having only B.Sc. (Ag.) as qualification majority of them belonged to medium level of job experience (63.60%) , annual income (70.40%), training exposure (50.80%), perceived work load (67.10%), organisational climate (68.80%), job performance (42.40%), scientific orientation (39.20%), innovativeness (40.40%), achievement motivation (45.80%) and 52.90 per cent of the respondents were having high job satisfaction The various communication behaviour components were information input behaviour, information processing behaviour and information output behaviour . With regard to various components they possess, medium level of information input behaviour (65.83%), medium level of information processing behaviour (60.42%), medium level of information output behaviour (55.00%) and medium overall communication behaviour (41.30%) was observed. The detailed analysis of dependent variable attitude towards ICT's indicated that majority (61.60%) of the respondents had favourable attitude towards ICT's and principle component analysis revealed that five factors i.e. real time accessibility of ICT's , authencity of information of ICT's, data capture utility of ICT's, multiplier power of ICT's and empowering power of ICT's had explained the maximum variation (66.99%) in attitude towards ICT's. The computed correlation coefficient ‘r’ values of Age, Educational status, job experience, Annual income, Trainings exposure, Organizational climate and Job performance were found to have positive and significant relationship with communication behaviour at 0.05 level of probability. Perceived work load was negatively correlated with the dependent variable. The multiple regression equation with twelve selected independent variables put together contributed 86 per cent to the total variance in the communication behaviour; remaining 14 per cent was due to the extraneous effects of the variables. The variables such as Age, Educational status, job experience, Annual income, Trainings exposure, job satisfaction, Organizational climate and Job performance were found to have positive and significant relationship with attitude, perceived work load was negatively correlated with the dependent variable. Whereas, variables such as Scientific orientation and Achievement motivation were found to be positive and nonsignificant with the attitude of extension personnel towards ICT's.The multiple regression equation with twelve selected independent variables put together contributed 76 per cent to the total variance in the communication behaviour and remaining 24 per cent was due to the extraneous effects of the variables. Regarding the training in presentation skills the respondents had given first rank to effective preparation of presentation (I) followed by Combining different methods (II) Captions / illustrations .Regarding training related to visual aids, first rank was given to designing power point followed by designing flip/strip charts. The Major problems faced by extension personnel in information input are 'Lack of transports facilities to visit the farmer’s field' was given first rank and Regarding problems related to information processing that 'less resources for developing visual aids'. The major problems in information output behaviour are 'unfair Political interference in all activities'. Most( 85.83%) of the respondents anticipated that skilled staff should be employed in the agricultural department.
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    A STUDY ON KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION LEVELS OF PADDY FARMERS IN EAST GODAVARI DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
    (ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, 2014) PRAVEEN BABU, R; PRASAD, N.V.V.S.D.
    Research study entitled “Knowledge and Adoption levels of paddy farmers in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh” was undertaken to study the profile characteristics of Paddy farmers, find the knowledge and adoption level of Paddy farmers. Further it aims to elucidate the constraints faced by Paddy farmers and suggestions. The study was taken up in four blocks of East Godavari district with a sample size of 120 Paddy farmers. Fourteen independent variables with knowledge level and extent of adoption as dependent variables were studied. The respondents were interviewed personally by a well-structured and pre-tested interview schedule. The data collected were coded, tabulated and analyzed using suitable statistical tools. The profile of Paddy farmers revealed that majority of the respondents were medium aged, educated up to High school level, medium level of Farming experience, semi-medium land holdings, medium level of social participation, Annual income, Market orientation, Economic Orientation, Extension contact, cosmopoliteness, cropping intensity Innovativeness, Mass media exposure and Risk orientation were found in medium level. Majority of the respondents had medium level of knowledge followed by the higher level. An overwhelming majority of respondents had knowledge about the Pest management practices, nursery preparation, irrigation management, nutrient management and main field preparation. More than half of the respondents had medium level of adoption in the cultivation of paddy , an overwhelming majority of respondents were adopted the Pest management practices, irrigation management, main field preparation, nursery preparation and nutrient management practices. The incentives provided by the state government to promote the adoption of recommended technology worked well. The variables viz., Age ,annual income , Educational status, , Economic orientation, Mass media exposure, Social participation, Extension contact, Market orientation, Innovativeness and Risk orientation, showed a positive and significant association with knowledge as well as Adoption. The variable cropping intensity had shown negative correlation to the knowledge level and adoption of the respondents at 1 per cent level of significance. The variable cropping intensity and social participation did not show any relation with extent of adoption. MLR analysis gave the output value R2 as 0.898 all fourteen independent variables put together have contributed to the extent of 89.8 percent of variation in the knowledge of farmers, leaving the rest (11.2%) to extraneous effect and with respect to adoption output value of R2 is 0.757 all fourteen independent variables put together have contributed to the extent of 75.7 percent of variation in the adoption of farmers, leaving the rest (24.3%) to extraneous effect. The unavailability of the seeds at the time of sowing, rodent damage, delay in getting soil sample reports ,difficulty in understanding the ETL,unavailability of the Biocontrol agents ,delay in getting subsidy and meeting different officials for getting loan and the technical advice were the major constraints expressed by the Paddy farmers. Training the farmers, strengthening the co-operative society, creating awareness about mass approach for rodent control and timely availability of the seed at the time of sowing were suggested by the majority of Paddy farmers.