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Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur

The history of agricultural education in Kerala can be traced back to the year 1896 when a scheme was evolved in the erstwhile Travancore State to train a few young men in scientific agriculture at the Demonstration Farm, Karamana, Thiruvananthapuram, presently, the Cropping Systems Research Centre under Kerala Agricultural University. Agriculture was introduced as an optional subject in the middle school classes in the State in 1922 when an Agricultural Middle School was started at Aluva, Ernakulam District. The popularity and usefulness of this school led to the starting of similar institutions at Kottarakkara and Konni in 1928 and 1931 respectively. Agriculture was later introduced as an optional subject for Intermediate Course in 1953. In 1955, the erstwhile Government of Travancore-Cochin started the Agricultural College and Research Institute at Vellayani, Thiruvananthapuram and the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at Mannuthy, Thrissur for imparting higher education in agricultural and veterinary sciences, respectively. These institutions were brought under the direct administrative control of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Animal Husbandry, respectively. With the formation of Kerala State in 1956, these two colleges were affiliated to the University of Kerala. The post-graduate programmes leading to M.Sc. (Ag), M.V.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees were started in 1961, 1962 and 1965 respectively. On the recommendation of the Second National Education Commission (1964-66) headed by Dr. D.S. Kothari, the then Chairman of the University Grants Commission, one Agricultural University in each State was established. The State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) were established in India as an integral part of the National Agricultural Research System to give the much needed impetus to Agriculture Education and Research in the Country. As a result the Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) was established on 24th February 1971 by virtue of the Act 33 of 1971 and started functioning on 1st February 1972. The Kerala Agricultural University is the 15th in the series of the SAUs. In accordance with the provisions of KAU Act of 1971, the Agricultural College and Research Institute at Vellayani, and the College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Mannuthy, were brought under the Kerala Agricultural University. In addition, twenty one agricultural and animal husbandry research stations were also transferred to the KAU for taking up research and extension programmes on various crops, animals, birds, etc. During 2011, Kerala Agricultural University was trifurcated into Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU), Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS) and Kerala Agricultural University (KAU). Now the University has seven colleges (four Agriculture, one Agricultural Engineering, one Forestry, one Co-operation Banking & Management), six RARSs, seven KVKs, 15 Research Stations and 16 Research and Extension Units under the faculties of Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering and Forestry. In addition, one Academy on Climate Change Adaptation and one Institute of Agricultural Technology offering M.Sc. (Integrated) Climate Change Adaptation and Diploma in Agricultural Sciences respectively are also functioning in Kerala Agricultural University.

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Subject: Statistics × Author: KAU × Author: Sunil Kumar, G × End date: 2000 × Start date: 2000 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Optimum stratification for yield estimation in cocoa (Theobroma Cacao L.)
    (Department of Agricultural Statistics, College of Horticulture, Vellanikkara, 2000) Sunil Kumar, G; KAU; Gopinathan Unnithan, V K
    Investigation on "Optimum stratification for yield estimation In cocoa (Theobroma cacao. L)" was carried out in the department of Agricultural Statistics, College of Horticulture, V ellanikkara during 1997-99 using data on 1025 'F orestro' variety cocoa trees from the Cadbury-KAU Co-operative Cocoa Research Project (CCRP), College of Horticulture, Kerala Agricultural University. Four different stratification rules, viz, cumulative root 'f rule, cumulative cube root 'f rule, Ekman's rule and an iterative procedure for function minimisation, were used to arrive at boundary points of strata. For each of these rules stratification was carried out on average yield of yester years, canopy spread, value of HxG2 where 'H' is height and 'G' is the girth of the trees, the first principal component derived from these variates and height and girth of the trees and regression estimate of the study character with the predictor variables mentioned above. Sampling variance of the estimator of the population mean under Neyman allocation for two to five strata situations was estimated in each case, assuming a uniform sample size of 200. Different stratification rules and stratification variables were compared using these estimates. No single rule was found to be appropriate for all the stratification variables and for different number of strata. But in most of the cases the cumulative root 'f rule was found to be good for smaller number of strata followed by the cumulative cube root 'f rule. For large number of strata, the iterative procedure performed consistently well compared to all the other methods. In the case of stratification based on the canopy spread, the Ekman' s method was found to be good for different numbers of strata. Regarding the stratification variables, the average yield of yester years was found to be best followed by the regression estimate in the sense of resulting in smaller sampling variance of the estimator of the population mean. Stratification based on value of HxG2 and the first principal component were found to be inferior. Average yield of yester years or regression estimate of yield could be used as covariate to perform the analysis of covariance for experiments in cocoa and also blocking of trees could be done based on these for the conduct of planned experiments on cocoa.