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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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    EXPLORING THE SCOPE OF VILLAGE ASSOCIATE BUSINESS MODEL TO STRENGTHEN FARMER DEVELOPMENT CENTERS (FDCs) IN ANDHRA PRADESH STATE
    (ACHARYA N G RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, 2021-10-04) ANIL KUMAR REDDY, K.; Krishna Kishore, .N.T
    The present study “Exploring the scope of village associate business model to strengthen the farmer development centers (FDCs) in Andhra Pradesh state” was mainly aimed to know the use of agri-inputs, technology adoption, technical guidance to farmers, dissemination of agricultural information, live demonstrations, etc.. as and are useful for academics, farmers, FDCs, Agri startups and agriculture department. FDC operating in Guntur district is purposively identified for the study based on volume of business and area of coverage. As FDC is catering its services to two mandals namely, Amarthalur and Tsundur mandals these mandals were purposively identified for the study. Five villages were selected from each identified mandal, total number of villages selected for the study were ten. Randomly twenty farmers were selected. Thus the total sample of the study was 200.Detailed information was collected from the sample farmers pertaining to the year 2017-18.Percentage analysis, cross tabulation, chi square and simple ranking were employed to analyse the objectives. Products and services offered by the Farmer Development Centers are seeds, plant nutrients, plant protection chemicals, farm tools and machinery, post harvest solutions, livestock feed solutions, financial services and personal safety solutions. The activities which were performed at FDC Amarthalur were promotional activities, sales activities, information dissemination through demonstrations and distributing pamphlets about the chemicals. At selected FDC seed business sales accounted for about 10.78 per cent in the total business turn over, both plant nutrient and plant protection business accounted for about 7.37 per cent and 58.67 per cent in the total business, farm tools and machinery, post harvest solutions and livestock feed solutions businesses accounted for 2.30 percent, 3.71 per cent and 17.16 per cent respectively. Socio economic characteristics of sample farmers revealed that 54.5 per cent sample farmers were having education qualification up to secondary level, 55per cent of sample framers were above 45 years of age, family size of 57.5 per cent of sample farmers were of 4- 6 members, and 54 per cent were having 20-30 years of farming experience. Cross tabulation between operational land holding pattern Vs source of seed purchase and cross tabulation between farming experience Vs seed recommendations of sample farmers inferred that with increase in farming experience, the farmers dependency on others for seed recommendations had gradually been decreasing. Around 90 per cent of sample farmers expressed high and medium levels of satisfaction for seed quality and seed germination percentage, 97 per cent of sample farmers expressed high and medium levels of satisfaction for unique selling proposition and seed availability. Sample farmers major information needs for fertilizers were different compositions of fertilizers followed by dosage of application and timings of application of fertilizers. A significant difference existed between satisfaction level of sample farmers for fertilizers, with respect to age groups and farming experience. Sample farmers major information needs for pesticides were technical knowledge. Sample farmers were not much satisfied with pesticide related aspects like quality of information obtained from agricultural department and the existence of spurious products, and mere satisfied with the availability of pesticides in the market and quality of information obtained from input dealers. The majority of sample farmers expressed the high quality of agricultural information received from input dealers, research station, mobiles, field days, television, farmer meeting and quality of information obtained from agricultural extension officers and fellow farmers was insufficient. Significant difference between farming experience and information needs of the sample farmers with respect to input availability, weather related and farm machinery services existed. The parameters required by sample farmers for preferring existing sources for purchase of agri inputs were long lasting relationship with input dealers followed by accessibility to input sources and purchase of inputs on credit basis. Around 35 per cent of sample respondents were ordering inputs through mobiles. Sample farmers had not expressed much brand loyalty to agri inputs as they were much influenced by promotions and discounts offered by agri-input companies and dealers in the open market.