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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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    ASSESSMENT OF IRRIGATION POTENTIAL AND OPTIMIZATION OF AVAILABLE WATER RESOURCES FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN ANANTAPUR DISTRICT
    (guntur, 2022-08-18) ASHOKKUMAR, NARALASETTY; RAMANA, M. V.
    The present study entitled “Assessment of irrigation potential and optimization of available water resources for sustainable agriculture in Anantapur district” was conducted to identify probable drought hit areas, identify water bodies, estimate irrigation water requirement and to develop software for designing location specific water harvesting structures in Anantapur district. Cluster analysis was carried out for 63 mandals in the Anantapur district based on mean annual rainfall using SPSS 26 software. The Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) for 12 months values was estimated using "MDM" (Meteorological Drought Monitoring) software application to identify the drought affected mandals. The mandals viz., Madakasira (Cluster 1), Singanamala and Parigi (Cluster 2), Bukkapatnam (Cluster 3) Gummagatta (Cluster 4) and Bommanahal and Chenne Kothapalle (Cluster 5) were found to be most affected by drought. Monthly rainfall forecasting was carried out using seasonal autoregressive moving average (SARIMA) model by testing 267 combinations using SPSS 26 software. Based on the best SARIMA models, the maximum probable annual rainfall values were observed in Brahmasamudram (Cluster 1), Gandlapenta (Cluster 2), Kadiri (Cluster 3), Kambadur (Cluster 4) and D. Hirehal (Cluster 5) mandals of Anantapur district respectively. The area of the surface water bodies for pre-monsoon (May) and post-monsoon (November) seasons from 2006 to 2015 in Anantapur district were estimated using QGIS. The minimum and maximum area of the surface water bodies for pre-monsoon and post-monsoon seasons were 1081, 5236 and 3480, 9032 ha for the years 2009 and 2010 respectively. The highest and lowest percentage of change of area of surface water bodies in post monsoon were 221.9 and 48.1 per cent as compared to pre-monsoon season due to distribution of rainfall in Anantapur district. xviii The crop water requirements for five major crops viz., groundnut, sunflower, paddy, jowar and maize were computed. The highest crop water demand and available surface and ground water resources were observed to be 4805.2 and 1958.83 MCM respectively. By using LINGO 11.0 software, the current scenarios of irrigation vs cultivated area of the availability of water resources, the highest net benefits, show highest net benefits of Rs. 22363 crores for the year 2017 followed by Rs. 20610 crores for the year 2014 due to higher available surface and ground water resources compared to other years 2004, 2009, 2011. For higher available surface and ground water resources, highest net benefit crops may be grown. The potential scenarios of irrigation vs cultivated of availability of water resources, highest net benefits i.e., Rs.18,291 crores got in Scenario 1 as compared to other 6 scenarios. For the prediction of future scenarios, it was assumed to be available ground and surface water resources i.e., 195883 ha-m may be present in the future and also considering the minimum cultivation area for highest crop water demand crops like., Paddy and Sunflower reduced by 75, 50 and 25 per cent and got maximum net benefits of Rs. 23841, 23249 and 22856 crores respectively. Based on highest net benefits, the optimum values of irrigation potential areas for the major crops like., groundnut, sunflower, paddy, jowar and wheat crops were 590311.4, 1260.5, 4180.75, 12530 and 10824 ha respectively. Location specific farm pond design was developed for the benefit of line department officials like., Department of Agriculture, Horticulture and DRDA etc. Based on the mathematical formulae and these designs are developed in Visual basic13. Design can be used for rectangle/square, inverted cone based on requirement and storage capacity and cost estimation for local conditions very effectively and accurately. This software is easy to install and run-in windows 10 operating system and also user friendly. The construction cost of the farm pond, gross returns, net returns and benefit cost ratio of the fish farming were Rs. 99794, Rs. 33000, Rs. 11416 and 1.53 respectively. There is to encourage the local farmers to adopt this technology in drought prone areas of Anantapur district Key words: Irrigation potential, optimization of water resources, SPSS, LINGO, QGIS, MDM, Cluster, cultivated area and SARIMA