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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: USHA, MADUGULA × End date: 2022 × Start date: 2022 × Thesis Type: Ph.D ×
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    A STUDY ON IMPACT OF RASTRIYA KRISHI VIKAS YOJANA (RKVY) PROGRAMME OF ANGRAU
    (guntur, 2022-08-04) USHA, MADUGULA; RAMBABU, P.
    Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) was initiated in 2007 as an umbrella scheme for ensuring holistic development of agriculture and allied services. The programme incentivises states in order to increase public investment in agriculture and allied sectors. The main objective of the programme is to reduce the yield gaps in important crops of the state, maximize returns of the farmers in agriculture and allied sectors and to make quantifiable changes in the production of agriculture and allied sectors. The scheme has come a long way since its inception and has been implemented across two five year plan periods (11th and 12th). Although many of these continuing programmes like RKVY, National Horticulture Mission (NHM), and National Food Security Mission (NFSM) were initiated during 2000, an in-depth assessment of the public delivery of services is not readily available. The implementation of targeted interventions need to be analysed and lessons to be learnt to enhance public investment efficiency and up scaling. Further, perception of the farmers and officials of the concerned department constitutes a vital input to policy makers for designing government programmes in a better way. Hence, in this study an attempt was made to study the impact of RKVY of ANGRAU as it made significant contributions in agriculture with respect to rice crop. The study was conducted by following an ex-post-facto Research Design. Three districts viz., Srikakulam (from North Coastal Zone), West Godavari (from Godavari Zone) and Nellore (from Southern Zone), were purposively selected based on the existence of maximum number of rice farmers. From each of the selected district, one Agricultural Research Station (ARS) / RARS, one Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), one District Agricultural Advisory and Transfer of Technology Centre (DAATTC) of ANGRAU were selected purposively which were successfully implementing RKVY programme in rice crop. A total of 80 beneficiaries from each district associated with ARS/RARS, KVK and DAATTC were selected by using proportionate random sampling method and thus, making a total sample of 240 respondents. Appropriate statistical tools such as Mean, Standard Deviation, Frequency, Percentage, Garret Ranking, Chi-square and Multiple Liner Regression (MLR) were used. The detailed analysis of profile characteristics of rice farmer beneficiaries of RKVY indicated that majority of the members were middle aged (65.00%), with primary school education (29.58%) and medium annual income (70.00%), marginal land holding (28.33%), farm experience of 11-15 years (36.67%), under gone 3-4 trainings (35.00%), medium socio politico participation (57.09%), medium decision making (66.67%), medium extension contact (67.50%), medium mass media exposure (65.00%), medium achievement motivation (63.33%), medium risk orientation (68.75%), medium market orientation (60.42%), medium scientific orientation (60.42%) and medium innovativeness (62.50%). In Chi Square analysis, education and farm experience were significant at 0.01 level of probability, whereas training received socio-politico participation, extension contact, decision making, achievement motivation, risk orientation, market orientation and scientific orientation were significant at 0.05 level of probability. The remaining profile characteristics like age, annual income, land holding, mass media exposure and innovativeness were not significant. The detailed analysis of dependent variables indicated that more than two-fifths (42.58%) of the rice farmer beneficiaries of RKVY had high knowledge on recommended production practices and when found relationship between profile characteristics of rice farmer beneficiaries of RKVY with knowledge, age, education, farming experience, training received, socio-politico participation, extension contact, mass media exposure, achievement motivation, risk orientation, market orientation, scientific orientation and innovativeness showed a positive and significant relationship with knowledge of the rice farmer beneficiaries of RKVY and the multiple linear regression analysis (MLR) indicated that all the fifteen profile characteristics put together contributed for 77.43 per cent of variance in the knowledge of the beneficiaries about rice cultivation leaving the rest (22.57%) to the effect of extraneous unknown characteristics. With regard to extent of adoption, two-fifths (42.08%) of the rice farmer beneficiaries of RKVY had high extent of adoption of recommended production technologies. The relationship between profile characteristics and extent of adoption revealed that age, education, farming experience, training received, socio-politico participation, extension contact, mass media exposure, decision making, achievement motivation, market orientation, scientific orientation and innovativeness showed a positive and significant relationship with extent of adoption and the multiple regression equation with profile characteristics put together contributed for 86.50 per cent of variance in the extent of adoption of recommended production technologies in rice leaving the rest (13.50%) for extraneous effect of unknown characteristics. Similarly in case of direct changes, nearly half (47.08%) of the rice farmer beneficiaries of RKVY had high level of direct changes undergone. The relationship between profile characteristics and direct changes reveled that age, annual income, training received, socio-politico participation, decision making, extension contact, mass media exposure, achievement motivation, risk orientation, market orientation, scientific orientation and innovativeness showed a positive and significant relationship with direct changes of the beneficiaries and the multiple regression equation with fifteen profile characteristics put together contributed for 84.00 per cent of variance in the direct changes leaving the rest (16.00%) for extraneous effect of unknown characteristics. In case of indirect changes almost half (49.58%) of the rice farmer beneficiaries of RKVY had medium level of indirect changes undergone. The relationship between profile characteristics and indirect changes revealed that age, annual income, farming experience, training received, socio-politico participation, decision making, extension contact, mass media exposure, achievement motivation, market orientation, scientific orientation and innovativeness showed a positive and significant relationship with indirect changes and the multiple regression equation with fifteen profile characteristics put together contributed for 82.40 per cent of variance in the indirect changes of the beneficiaries leaving the rest (17.60%) to extraneous effect of unknown characteristics. The major constraints faced by rice farmer beneficiaries of RKVY were ‘high cost of hire charges of MSRI machinery’, soil test based fertilizer application resulting in low yields’, ‘No knowledge on market information to sell the farm produce’ and less practicability of soil health card recommendations’. Similarly major constraints faced by scientists in implementation of RKVY were ‘Insufficient funds allocated for critical inputs’, ‘increased workload in implementing the RKVY programme’, ‘No technical competence in updating information of Kiosk’. A suitable strategy was designed with five core areas for effective implementation of RKVY. The areas are 1) Strengthening Bhoochetana programme 2) Popularizing cost reduction technologies 3) Strengthening infrastructural facilities 4) Popularizing IFS models 5) Promoting extension services.