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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 Statistics and Informatics × Author: HEROLD DEEPAK ROY, B × End date: 2018 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    CROP-YIELD WEATHER RELATIONSHIP OF PRAKASAM DISTRICT IN ANDHRA PRADESH
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, 2016) HEROLD DEEPAK ROY, B; SHAIK NAFEEZ UMAR
    Rainfall is one of the important climatic factor that influences crop production in particular and agriculture in general. Here, the distribution of rainfall can be studied by fitting suitable statistical distribution to the monthly rainfall data recorded over 15 years (2000-01 to 2014-15) for Prakasam district in Andhra Pradesh. It revealed that most of the months follow ‘Type I’ (or) Beta distribution while the months of July and September assumed Pearsonian “Type II” (or) “Type VII” i.e., Normal distribution and the month of November shown “Pearsonian Type IV” distribution. Statistically, estimation of a crop yield-weather relationship is fitting a multiple regression equation with yield as the dependent variable and weather parameters during the crop growth period as the independent variables. The analysis has been carried out on the basis of crop yields and weather variables for 15 years of monthly time series data (2000-01 to 2014-15). Weather impact on the crop yields was studied on the basis of rainfall, temperature (maximum and minimum) and relative humidity (AM and PM). In fitting the crop yield-weather relationships, the assumption of a continuous time trend was found to be inappropriate when the impact of new technology may exists in the form of quantum jumps over time which is termed as discrete time effect. For this situation, concept of control charts was applied using one sigma limits and sub-periods were identified. These sub-periods were formed with the year of quantum jump as the cut-off point. Nature of time trend in the sub-periods and overall yields was investigated by fitting time trend regression equation respectively. All the crops revealed ‘differential’ trend effect in the yields of the two sub-periods indicating that there could be a differential weather response of the crop. Hence, it is appropriate to fit the crop yield-weather relationships separately for each of the two sub-periods as well as for overall period. It was observed that an overall relationship may not be appropriate to explain the yield variations as it consisted of certain irrelevant regressors. Considering this behaviour, separate relationships were fitted for the different subperiods existing in the crop yield data and the analysis revealed the existence of a differential response of the yields to weather. The variables identified in these relations suitably explain the weather response with respect to the crop growth stages. Hence, it was concluded that yields under a given technology only could be forecasted (based on weather variables) on the basis of the corresponding subperiod relationship (equation).