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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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    A STUDY ON ANALYSIS OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT OF CHILLIES IN GUNTUR REGION- A CASE STUDY OF ITC LTD.
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, 2016) ANURADHA, N; PRABHAVATHI, Y
    The present study “A Study on analysis of supply chain management of chillies in Guntur region – A case study of ITC Ltd.” was mainly aimed to study the constraints in procurement and moving of chillies by the company, and to identify the factors influencing remunerating prices of Chillies to analyze the purchasing behavior of consumers, and to identify the measures to be taken in the supply chain management of chillies. Different market areas of Hyderabad were purposively selected based on the interest of company ITC Ltd. The secondary data of area, production, rainfall, market arrivals, and export demand was collected from the trusted sources like Indiastat.com was analyzed to attain the stated objectives by using simple percentage analysis Garret’s ranking techniques & functional analysis. The study revealed that, in ITC, IPM and non-IPM procurement were present, in non-IPM procurement 90% of the procurement took place through market buy and field buy was limited to 5%, only. In IPM procurement, crop protection team procure the produce from the selected farmers of IPM villages. Because of staggered chilli pickings in the villages, lack of village cooperatives and poor financial position of farmers, they were committed to sell the produce to local land lords and commission agents, which situation cramps the company to restrict filed buy to 5% only. The study revealed that, export demand was the major influencing factor on pricing behavior of chillies. Majority of the consumers were under the age group of 26-35 years and majority of the consumers was graduates. Majority of the consumers were private company employees and the monthly income level of majority of consumers was Rs.40,000/- above. Majority of the consumers heard about ITC and advertisements was the medium through which ITC was known to consumers. Major preferring brand of chilli powder was Aashirwad chilli powder, and Majority of consumers were using Aashirwad chilli powder for a period of 1-3 years. Majority of consumers were always preferring brands and 100 percent of consumers were in the habit of checking the manufacturing date and MRP. Cent percent of consumers revealed that quality was the major and retail promotion was the least affecting factors, while purchasing chilli powder. The study showed that, awareness about crop loans and pledge finance was less among producers and guidance need to be provided on the Same. The company needs to follow the advance technologies like cocoon cargo fumigation for fumigation to reduce cost. Majority of the producers required information about spice parks and the benefits of it, pesticide usage and the government subsidies on infrastructure.