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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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    DISTRIBUTION AND FUTURE TRENDS OF MONTHLY RAINFALL IN THE DISTRICTS OF KERALA – A STATISTICAL APPROACH
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, 2017) AKHISHA, P.A.; SRINIVASA RAO, V
    An attempt was made to study the district wise monthly rainfall pattern of Kerala State. Data pertaining to monthly rainfall of the fourteen administrative districts of the state starting from 2004 to 2016 (156 months) was collected from Regional Meteorological Centre, Thiruvananthapuram for the study. Components of time series viz., secular trend, seasonality, cyclical variation and irregularity were studied along with the descriptive statistics like Arithmetic Mean (AM), Standard Deviation (SD) and Coefficient of Variation (CV%). To determine regional rainfall pattern, a non hierarchical cluster analysis, i.e., K means Clustering Algorithm, was applied on autocorrelation coefficients at different lags and four rainfall groups were found based on the time series models. The results of the time series modeling showed a high variation of temporal pattern of the monthly rainfall over Kerala. Auto Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models, Seasonal Dummy models and Seasonal Exponential Smoothing were fitted to the data and best model was chosen based on values of AIC, SBC, R square and MAPE. Better forecasts were obtained by Seasonal Dummy and Seasonal Exponential Smoothing. Trend analysis showed that the mean monthly rainfall of Kerala State exhibited a slightly decreasing trend over the period of study and seasonal indices were found highest in June and least in January. Clustering of districts showed that Kasargod and Kannur districts were listed under cluster 1 while Thiruvananthapuram was listed under Cluster 2 alone. Kottayam, Alappuzha, Pathanamthitta and Kollam were listed under Cluster 3 while Kozhikkode, Wayanad, Malappuram, Palakkad, Thrissur, Ernakulam and Idukki were listed under Cluster 4. The results of descriptive statistics indicated that the state received consistent rainfall in the month of June and inconsistent rainfall in February month. It also revealed that the state received maximum rainfall in 2007 and least rainfall in 2016 during the study period.