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Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar

After independence, development of the rural sector was considered the primary concern of the Government of India. In 1949, with the appointment of the Radhakrishnan University Education Commission, imparting of agricultural education through the setting up of rural universities became the focal point. Later, in 1954 an Indo-American team led by Dr. K.R. Damle, the Vice-President of ICAR, was constituted that arrived at the idea of establishing a Rural University on the land-grant pattern of USA. As a consequence a contract between the Government of India, the Technical Cooperation Mission and some land-grant universities of USA, was signed to promote agricultural education in the country. The US universities included the universities of Tennessee, the Ohio State University, the Kansas State University, The University of Illinois, the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Missouri. The task of assisting Uttar Pradesh in establishing an agricultural university was assigned to the University of Illinois which signed a contract in 1959 to establish an agricultural University in the State. Dean, H.W. Hannah, of the University of Illinois prepared a blueprint for a Rural University to be set up at the Tarai State Farm in the district Nainital, UP. In the initial stage the University of Illinois also offered the services of its scientists and teachers. Thus, in 1960, the first agricultural university of India, UP Agricultural University, came into being by an Act of legislation, UP Act XI-V of 1958. The Act was later amended under UP Universities Re-enactment and Amendment Act 1972 and the University was rechristened as Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology keeping in view the contributions of Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant, the then Chief Minister of UP. The University was dedicated to the Nation by the first Prime Minister of India Pt Jawaharlal Nehru on 17 November 1960. The G.B. Pant University is a symbol of successful partnership between India and the United States. The establishment of this university brought about a revolution in agricultural education, research and extension. It paved the way for setting up of 31 other agricultural universities in the country.

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Subject: Botany × Author: Bisht, Shefali × End date: 2008 ×
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    Bioactivity of certain selected composites on fungal pathogens
    (G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2004-07) Bisht, Shefali; Rao, P.B.
    Mounting pressure of teeming population and shrinking land resources have necessitated the production of more food per unit area. Synthetic pesticides have played a major role in restricting pest problems and ensuring an increase in food grain production. However, the indiscriminate use of synthetic pesticides have created several problems of pest resistance, food contamination by toxic residuce (Subash Chander and Munshi, 1995) environmental pollution, pest resurgence and resistance (Schumtterer et al., 1990). Recently, the use of bioactive products of plants is being popularized to control the pests, as these are safer, cheaper and their crude extracts are quite easy to prepare. In the present study, an attempt is being made to screen five different members of family Compositae (Asteraceae) for their antifungal efficacy, by „Paper-Disc‟ agar method, in different organic solvents (methanol and acetone) and aqueous extracts at different concentrations (1000 g ml-1), and time intervals. The results obtained showed that the extracts of the selected composites inhibited the growth of one or the other fungus, in different extracts to certain degrees at different time intervals and concentrations except the aqueous extracts of Ageratum conyzoides and Tagetus erecta that has no effect on Fusarium oxysporum and Alternaria heterosporus respectively. Acetone extract of T. erecta was the most effective in inhibiting the growth of Alternaria heterosphorus, followed by the acetone extract of Cirsium arevensis and methanol extract of Parthenium hysterophorus. The methanol extract of A. conyzoides was the most active against Fusarium oxysporum. Rhizoctonia solani was most inhibited by the methanol extract of A. conyzoides, followed by acetone extract of C. arvensis. The acetone extract of A. conyzoides proved to be highly effective in inhibiting the growth of Sclerotium rolfsii followed by acetone extract of T. erecta. Thus, the above mentioned results clearly indicate that there is a vast potential in the botanicals to be used safely against pests.