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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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    EFFECT OF PHOTOPERIOD AND TEMPERATURE ON GROWTH, DRYMATTER PARTITIONING AND YIELD IN GROUNDNUT (Arachis hypogaea L.)
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, 2017) AKHILA ANIL, I; SUDHAKAR, P
    The experiment on “Effect of photoperiod and temperature on growth, drymatter partitioning and yield in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)” was conducted at Tirupati located at 13.650N & 79.420E of Southern Agroclimatic zone of Andhra Pradesh. The experiment was conducted during kharif season of 2016 in a split plot design with three replications. The treatments included four varieties (Narayani, Dharani, K-6 and TMV-2) of groundnut sown at three dates of sowing (June 21st, July 14th and July 30th). The data on crop weather interactions interms of temperature (GDDGrowing degree days), day length (Photothermal unit), sun shine hours (Heliothermal unit) and Heat use efficiency (HUE) were calculated for the three varieties sown at three different dates of sowing. The data reveals that Dharani (V2) recorded higher accumulation of GDD (2277oday), PTU (27691oC day hr), HTU (14164.81 oC day hr), and HUE (0.88 Kg ha-1 oC day-1 ) from sowing to physiological maturity compared to Narayani, K-6 and TMV-2. Dharani variety also recorded higher physiological efficiency interms of Leaf area index (LAI), drymatter accumulation and pod yield and its attributes compared to other three varieties. xv Among the three dates of sowing, photothermal units i.e., GDD, HTU and PTU were varied across the different growth stages. June 21st sowing had favourable agro-climatic conditions particularly temperature and rainfall at vegetative phase and more accumulated temperature, day length and sun shine hours in terms of higher accumulated GDD, HTU and PTU from sowing to physiological maturity compared to other dates of sowing. Hence, June 21 st sowing showed higher LAI, drymatter accumulation and yield and its attributes compared to other two dates of sowing. This early sown crop resulted in higher pod yields also because of higher heat use efficiency of 0.93 kg ha-1 oC day-1 . LAI and total drymatter also showed significantly positive correlation with yield at different growth intervals. Validation of PNUTGRO model of groundnut varieties at three dates of sowing also showed good to moderate results. Model estimation was very close to that of observed values for emergence day, anthesis day, days to seed initiation, days to pod initiation and days to harvest maturity. Model underestimated pod yield, haulm yield, stock yield due to the supply of irrigation in higher temperature. The overall performance of the model was good which indicated that model works well in this Southern Agroclimatic region of A.P. It is concluded that Dharani variety sowing during June 21st (June II fortnight) sowing is effective interms of better accumulation of temperature, photoperiod and sun shine hours especially at pod filling stage thereby higher drymatter, yield and HI. Heat use efficiency is a good index for identifying better variety and dates of sowing