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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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    SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT OF MANGO – A CASE OF GALLA FOODS LIMITED
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, 2017) ANEESH, AKKINENI; PRBHAVATHI, Y
    The present study “Supply Chain Management of Mango - A Case of Galla Foods Limited” mainly aimed to study the supply chain of mango in study area, supply chain of mango of Galla Foods Ltd, cost estimation of mango processing and issues and challenges of supply chain of mango in the study area. For the present study, purposive cum simple random sampling technique was adopted. The study was undertaken in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. Five mandals in the district were selected based on the criterion of highest area under mango cultivation. Two villages from each mandal were selected based on the above criterion and thus the total number of villages chosen stood at ten. From each village twelve mango growing farmers were selected randomly and thus the total sample size stood at 120. A pre structured schedule was prepared and required information was collected from sample farmers, traders, processors and other government departments to analyse the supply chain of mango in the study area, cost estimation and issues and challenges in supply chain of mango of Galla Foods Ltd by using a set of statistical tools. The study revealed that greater percentage of sample farmers were in the age group of 36-45 years, were illiterate, had family size of 4-6 members and were large farmers. Mango growers in the study area supply produce mainly to traders followed by processors. Processors procure produce from farmers, bulk buyers and village traders. As totapuri variety of mango was mainly used for processing. They majorly export pulp to other countries and xii marginally supply to local manufactures for further value addition. Consumers mainly receive value added products from local retailers, importers and other national markets. Galla Foods Ltd, a processing mango firm majorly procure produce from farmers (85 per cent) followed by traders (15 per cent) and process into pulp. Around 95 per cent of the pulp processed was marketed to exporters and local markets and only 5 per cent was value added to juice. The total cost incurred for processing one tonne of mango accounted to ` 40051.89 (100.00 per cent) of which fixed costs was ` 1902.5 (4.75 per cent) and variable costs was ` 38149.39 (70.01 per cent). Farmers supplying produce to Galla Foods were mainly satisfied with price and payment period and highly dissatisfied with waiting time for unloading of the produce. The major issues and challenges of supply chain of mango being faced by the company were lack of cold storage, high cost of packing material, ineffective transportation, contract farming and long payback period.