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Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa

In the imperial Gazetteer of India 1878, Pusa was recorded as a government estate of about 1350 acres in Darbhanba. It was acquired by East India Company for running a stud farm to supply better breed of horses mainly for the army. Frequent incidence of glanders disease (swelling of glands), mostly affecting the valuable imported bloodstock made the civil veterinary department to shift the entire stock out of Pusa. A British tobacco concern Beg Sutherland & co. got the estate on lease but it also left in 1897 abandoning the government estate of Pusa. Lord Mayo, The Viceroy and Governor General, had been repeatedly trying to get through his proposal for setting up a directorate general of Agriculture that would take care of the soil and its productivity, formulate newer techniques of cultivation, improve the quality of seeds and livestock and also arrange for imparting agricultural education. The government of India had invited a British expert. Dr. J. A. Voelcker who had submitted as report on the development of Indian agriculture. As a follow-up action, three experts in different fields were appointed for the first time during 1885 to 1895 namely, agricultural chemist (Dr. J. W. Leafer), cryptogamic botanist (Dr. R. A. Butler) and entomologist (Dr. H. Maxwell Lefroy) with headquarters at Dehradun (U.P.) in the forest Research Institute complex. Surprisingly, until now Pusa, which was destined to become the centre of agricultural revolution in the country, was lying as before an abandoned government estate. In 1898. Lord Curzon took over as the viceroy. A widely traveled person and an administrator, he salvaged out the earlier proposal and got London’s approval for the appointment of the inspector General of Agriculture to which the first incumbent Mr. J. Mollison (Dy. Director of Agriculture, Bombay) joined in 1901 with headquarters at Nagpur The then government of Bengal had mooted in 1902 a proposal to the centre for setting up a model cattle farm for improving the dilapidated condition of the livestock at Pusa estate where plenty of land, water and feed would be available, and with Mr. Mollison’s support this was accepted in principle. Around Pusa, there were many British planters and also an indigo research centre Dalsing Sarai (near Pusa). Mr. Mollison’s visits to this mini British kingdom and his strong recommendations. In favour of Pusa as the most ideal place for the Bengal government project obviously caught the attention for the viceroy.

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Subject: Agricultural Extension × Author: Bharti, Jigyasa × Start date: 1987 ×
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    Extent of adoption of Protected Cultivation Technology among the trained farmers of North Bihar
    (Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur), 2016) Bharti, Jigyasa; Prakash, Satya
    “protected cultivation ” means modification of the plant environment to achieve optimum plant growth and maximum production by avoiding the harmful effect of climatic factors like tempreture, humidity, rainfall, etc (P.R.Bhatnagar,2012). It is one of the special agriculture where high input (land, water, seeds and chemicals) use efficiency on account of better protection against abiotic and biotic stress is obtained besides off season production. Protected cultivation though has variety of agriculture application but mainly it is being considered for the production of horticulture crops like vegetables and ornamental flower. It is estimated that small area approximately fifty thousand hectares is under protected cultivation in India. Protected cultivation of high value vegetables and cut-flowers has shown tremendous potential during the last decade or so. With the progress of liberalized economy and the advent of newer technologies in agriculture, protected cultivation opens up avenues in agriculture hitherto not seen. These technologies are not only creating avenues at higher level but also to the growers with the smaller landholdings as the higher productivity levels retain economic relevance to agriculture. Protected cultivation is in a way precise, progressive and parallel agriculture encompassing virtually all facets of agriculture and rather under additional scrutiny of technical relevance to situations and grower and market economics. The analysis reveals that that most of the trained farmers belonged to middle age group (50 percent), UR category (50 percent), farming alone 45(percent), literate up to graduation and above (60 percent), small family (60 percent), member of one organization (45 percent), medium level of Risk orientation (65 per cent), medium entrepreneurial motivation (60 percent), medium knowledge level (55 percent) . Some of the independent variables such as attitude and source of information utilized were found to be statistically significant. The result of the study revealed that extent of crop diversification extent of Crop diversification is higher among trained respondents as compared to untrained respondents. The adoption level is also higher among trained respondents as compared to untrained respondents. Hence it is clear that trained farmers have great benefits of training. Protected cultivation training had been successful and had significant impact on protected cultivators. Farmers were able to enhance their level of motivation, tackle the constraints and maintain profitability and sustainability. Hence training is very important to adopt the new technology of protected cultivation.