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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 FARMERS ACCESS TO CREDIT, BORROWING BEHAVIOUR AND RESOURCE USE EFFICIENCY IN GUNTUR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
    (ACHARYA N.G. RANGA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY, GUNTUR, 2014) MANI PRIYANKA, G; RADHA, Y
    Indian Agriculture is predominantly characterised by small and marginal farmers, tenants, landless / agricultural labourers with the co-existence of institutional (formal) and non-institutional (informal) credit agencies. Small and marginal farmers are usually left out of the purview of formal credit and depend on private money lenders which obviously costs them heavily. The government virtually had no record of information on tenant holdings, number of tenant farmers etc., by which they are denied of several benefits from developmental programmes. In this context it would be of high use to investigate on the access to credit, borrowing behaviour and resource use efficiency of land owned farmers, semi- tenant farmers and tenant farmers to bring out certain policy changes in the present credit structure with the following specific objectives. 1. To assess the access to credit by land owned farmers, tenant farmers and semi-tenant farmers from different sources. 2. To identify the socio-economic factors affecting the borrowing behaviour of selected farmers. 3. To study the resource use efficiency of land owned farmers, tenant farmers and semi-tenant farmers. Multi-stage random sampling design was employed to select a representative sample of 120 farmers from six villages of three mandals in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh. Primary data was collected through personal interview method with the help of pretested schedules from the respondents and the data was tabulated and analyzed. Secondary data was collected from Chief Name of the Author : G. MANI PRIYANKA Title of the Thesis : AN ANALYSIS OF FARMERS’ ACCESS TO CREDIT, BORROWING BEHAVIOUR AND RESOURCE USE EFFICIENCY IN GUNTUR DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH Submitted for the award of : Master of Science in Agriculture Department : Agricultural Economics Major Advisor : Dr. Y. RADHA University : Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University Year of Submission : 2014 Planning Officer (CPO) of Guntur district. Statistical tools used in analysis were mean, percentages, cost concepts, Theil’s index, Discriminant analysis and Multiple Linear Regression. The detailed analysis revealed that land owned farmers and semi-tenant farmers were having more access to both institutional and non- institutional credit than the tenant farmers. Tenant farmers were having more access to noninstitutional credit compared to land owned farmers and semi-tenant farmers as they lack collateral to pledge in banks. Land, cost of cultivation and net returns showed positive and significant influence on borrowing behaviour of land owned farmers. Cost of cultivation and net returns showed positive and significant influence on borrowing behaviour of semi-tenant farmers while only land showed positive and significant influence on borrowing behaviour of tenant farmers. The discriminant functional analysis revealed that between the land owned farmers and semi-tenant farmers, institutional loan amount was the major discriminator (52.67 %) followed by operational costs (38.56 %); between the land owned farmers and tenant farmers institutional loan amount was the major discriminator (81.38 %) followed by operational costs (22.48 %); and between semi-tenant farmers and tenant farmers, operational costs was the major discriminator (54.71 %) followed by institutional loan amount (49.08 %). Factors influencing resource use efficiency of the farmers revealed that land and labour cost showing significant influence on gross returns of land owned farmers. Labour cost, borrowed capital and owned capital showed positive and significant influence on gross returns of semi- tenant farmers. Land, borrowed capital and owned capital showed positive and significant influence on gross returns of tenant farmers. Labour cost, borrowed capital and owned capital exhibited positive and significant influence on gross returns of the total sample farmers. As credit being positively significant for all the farmers and institutional finance emerged as the major discriminator, the same may be made available to all the farmers, irrespective of owning the land, to increase resource use efficiency.
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    EFFICACY OF CERTAIN INSECTICIDES ON THE PEST COMPLEX OF CASHEWNUT AND THEIR PERSISTENCY
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur, 1988) Hanumantha Rao, B; Reddi, G.P.V
    EFFICACY OF CERTAIN INSECTICIDES ON THE PEST COMPLEX OF CASHEWNUT AND THEIR PERSISTENCY
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    EFFICACY OF CERTAIN INSECTICIDES ON THE PEST COMPLEX OF CASHEWNUT AND THEIR PERSISTENCY
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur, 1988) Hanumantha Rao, B; Reddi, G.P.V
    EFFICACY OF CERTAIN INSECTICIDES ON THE PEST COMPLEX OF CASHEWNUT AND THEIR PERSISTENCY.
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    DYNAMICS OF SOURCE-SINK INTERRELATIONS IN CHILLIES (Capsicum annuum L.)
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur, 1988) Srinivasa Rao, Tummala; Hanumantha Rao, G.V
    DYNAMICS OF SOURCE-SINK INTERRELATIONS IN CHILLIES (Capsicum annuum L.)
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    A STUDY ON EFFECTIVENESS OF FORTNIGHTLY TRAINING PROGRAMMES UNDER TRAINING AND VISIT SYSTEM IN EAST GODAVARI DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH.
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur, 1988) Nageswara Rao, K; Radha Krishna Murthy, CH
    A STUDY ON EFFECTIVENESS OF FORTNIGHTLY TRAINING PROGRAMMES UNDER TRAINING AND VISIT SYSTEM IN EAST GODAVARI DISTRICT OF ANDHRA PRADESH
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    EFFICIENCY OF FRACTIONATION DOSES OF GAMMA RAYS AND CHEMICAL MUTAGENS IN INDUCING MUTATIONS IN BPT 1235 (Oryza sativa L.)
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur, 1988) Rohini, Anumolu; Madhusudana Rao, G
    EFFICIENCY OF FRACTIONATION DOSES OF GAMMA RAYS AND CHEMICAL MUTAGENS IN INDUCING MUTATIONS IN BPT 1235 (Oryza sativa L.).
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    STUDIES ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF SOYBEAN VARIETIES AT DIFFERENT DATES OF SOWING.
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur, 1988) Sudhakar, K; Hanumantha Rao, Y
    STUDIES ON GROWTH AND YIELD OF SOYBEAN VARIETIES AT DIFFERENT DATES OF SOWING.
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    STUDIES ON THE EFFECT OF SPACING AND NUMBER OF SEEDLINGS PER HILL ON RICE.
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur, 1988) Satya Varma, N; Raghavulu, P
    STUDIES ON THE EFFECT OF SPACING AND NUMBER OF SEEDLINGS PER HILL ON RICE.
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    GENETIC ANALYSIS OF YIELD AND ITS COMPONENTS IN FOUR RICE CROSSES.
    (Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Guntur, 1988) Ramesh Kumar, V.V; Subramanyam, D
    GENETIC ANALYSIS OF YIELD AND ITS COMPONENTS IN FOUR RICE CROSSES.