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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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    AN ANALYSIS OF FARMER’S PREFERENCE IN THE SELECTION OF FARM MACHINERY
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, 2017) KHADARBASHA, DUDEKULA; NAFEEZ UMAR, SHAIK
    An attempt was made to study about the factors that influence the farmer in selection of farm machinery in Guntur, Krishna and Prakasam districts of Andhra Pradesh by collecting data from six villages, i.e., in each district one wet land and one dry land village covering 15 farmers in each village making a sample size of 90 farmers. The data was analysed using statistical tools like Spearman’s Rank correlation, factor analysis, Ward’s Minimum Variance Cluster analysis and non-parametric tests like Chi-Square test, Garret Ranking Techniques and Z-test. This study showed that the variables mechanics reputation, engine, loan availability to the farmer and media influence were showing significant difference in between dry land and wet land farmers whereas the variables brand reputation, easy reparability, cost of the machine, appearance, performance, resale value and subsidy does not show any significant difference in between dry land and wet land farmers. Factor analysis is a data reduction technique, which was used to identify a small set of variables, which accounts for a large proportion of the total variance in the original variables. The first five factors constitute about 63.60% of the total variance in the total 13 variables included in the analysis. The results indicated that multivariate approaches based on cluster analysis and factor analysis effectively summarized the source of variability in farmer’s preference in the selection of farm machinery and precisely identifies different clusters of farmers based on their similarities existing among them. Correlation studies showed that farmers prefer branded machinery which can have best engine capacity and its performance to agricultural operations was very good. It was also revealed that the farmers were buying the farm machinery based on the media influence. Hence, when the farmer was looking for a branded farm machinery, he was not considering spare parts availability, cost of machine, appearance of the machine, offers from the dealers, resale value and subsidy from the Government because the branded machinery generally have all these characteristics automatically. Chi-square test showed that there was significant difference between the independent variables like age, education, farm size, family size, farming experience and crops grown with the preference in the selection of farm machinery. Cluster analysis revealed that there were 4 different clusters of farmers existing among the selected villages based on the similarities existing in between them among the various variables that influence a farmer in selecting farm machinery. Among them, cluster IV was the largest with 30 farmers contributing about 33.33% of the total farmers. The cluster I was the second largest cluster with 28 farmers contributing about 31.11% followed by cluster II with 21 farmers with 23% of the total farmers. The smallest cluster was cluster III with 11 farmers contributing about 12% of the total farmers. The various constraints that the farmers were facing during usage of farm machinery were analysed using Henry Garret Ranking technique and concluded that lack of credit facilities majorly influence the farmer’s for buying farm machinery. The other constraints were small land holding, scattered farm holdings, high cost of farm machinery and maintenance of farm machinery. Farmers were least influenced by constraints like negative attitude of farmers towards improved machinery and belief of few farmers that the machinery was not suitable for varied types of lands and crops. This study helps to identify the factors that were positively and negatively affecting the farmers in selecting the farm machinery. This helps to analyze the various constraints involved in selecting the farm machinery and suitable measures can to be taken to overcome these constraints. This will lead to increase the usage of farm machinery in the modern mechanized era to a greater extent.