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Name of the Head of Department: Dr. Prity kumari

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About the Department

The Department of Basic Sciences was established in May 2018. This department offers courses in Elementary Statistics & Computer Application, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Microbiology and Physiology to undergraduate students. Also department provides facility of computer laboratory where a batch of 35 students can be given practical exposure to the computer technology. It contributes in creating human resources in the different field of Horticulture as well as giving inputs/policies to strengthen farmer-scientist linkage through different research findings. The department is also involved in different extension activities such as organizing Workshops, seminars, training programmes and delivering talks/lectures.

Courses offered by department in Under Graduates programme (5th Dean’s committee):

Sr.

No.

Course

 No.

Name of Course

Credit

1

BSC 1.1

Elementary Plant Biochemistry

2(1+1)

2

BSC 1.2

Principles of Genetics and Cytogenetics

3(2+1)

3

BSC 1.3

Introductory Microbiology

2(1+1)

4

BSC 2.4

Introductory Crop Physiology

2(1+1)

5

BSC 2.5

Principles of Plant Breeding

3(2+1)

6

BSC 3.6

Elementary Plant Biotechnology

2(1+1)

7

BSC 3.7

Growth and Development of Horticultural Crops

2(1+1)

 

 

Total 

16 ( 9+7)

PG Courses:

Sr.

No.

Course

 No.

Name of Course

Credit

1.

STAT 601

Advanced Statistical Computing

3(2+1)

2.

STAT 562

Statistical Inference

3(2+1)

3.

STAT 563

Multivariate Analysis

3(2+1)

4.

STAT 567

Regression Analysis

2(1+1)

5.

STAT 538

Statistical Method for Social Sciences II

3(2+1)

Note: PG Courses from Dept. of Agricultural Statistics, BACA are offered for teaching in this department.

On-going research schemes/projects:

Sr. No.

Name of  Project

PI/Co-PI

Funding Agency

  1.  

Establishing centre for Agricultural market Intelligence at A.A.U., Anand

Co-PI

National Agricultural Higher Educational project (NHAEP-CASST), ICAR, New Delhi

  1.  

Comparison of linear and nonlinear forecasting model for area, production and productivity of major fruit crops in Gujarat

PI

Departmental project under 16th AGRESCO Sub- committee on Social Science Group, AAU

Projects completed

Sr. No.

Name of  Project

PI/Co-PI

Completion Year

Funding Agency

  1.  

Modelling and forecasting of area, production and productivity of major fruit crops in Gujarat-An application of Artificial Neural Network

PI

2020

Departmental project under 15th AGRESCO Sub- committee on Social Science Group, AAU

  1.  

Comparison of Statistical models for forecasting area, production and productivity of major fruit crops in Gujarat

PI

2019

Departmental project under 14th AGRESCO Sub- committee on Social Science Group, AAU

  1.  

Evaluation of Statistical models for forecasting area, production and productivity of fruit crops in Gujarat

PI

2018

Departmental project under 13th AGRESCO Sub- committee on Social Science Group, AAU

Research Publications:

No. of research papers published in scientific journal

International Journal

00

National Journal

09

Extension activities:

Seminar, Symposia, Conferences, Workshop, Training Programmes Organized, Radio/Tv talk:

Sl. No.

Title

Place

Duration

Sponsoring Authority

1.

Market analytics in R- Phase I

Anand Agricultural University

Feb. 24-26, 2020

ICAR, New Delhi and NHAEP-CAAST, AAU

2.

Market analytics in R- Phase II

March 03-05, 2020

3.

Research Methodology for Social sciences

September 01-11, 2020

4.

Space technology & Machine Learning for Agriculture

October 28-29, 2020

5.

Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture

February 02, 2021

Participated in conference/ seminar/webinar/training/workshop etc:

Sl. No.

Competence Building

International

National

1.

Conferences

07

02

2.

Seminars/webinars

-

06

Workshops/ trainings of 10 and >10 days

3.

Short  term course (4 weeks/21 days /summer/ winter school)

01

03

4.

10 days Faculty development programme (FDP)

-

04

Workshops and trainings of 5 and < 5 days

5.

Workshops /training programms/FDP

01

11

Department infrastructure & Photographs :

Sr. No.

Particulars

Numbers

IT Infrastructure

1

Computer lab systems

30

2

Laptops

03

3

Printers

12

4

Wi-fi access points

03

5

Smart Board

02

6

Projectors

07

7

Projector’s screen

04

8.

CCTV cameras

27

9.

Web cameras

10

10.

Smart Classes

02

I.Aryabhatta_CR_COH
II.Swami_Vivekanand_COH

11.

Online Teaching platform

Impartus  (http://impartus.com/)

12.

Software for Online Examination

Online Examination System (OES)
http://oes.aau.in/

Computer Lab

                 Aryabhatt CR COH                                     Swami Vivekanand COH                                     PG Classroom

Future plans/thrust areas:

  1. Strengthening research on statistical model in the area of horticultural crop.
  2. Focus will be on use of Artificial intelligence in the field of horticultural crop.

 

 

 
 
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