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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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    Adoption behaviour of jute growers in Kosi region of Bihar
    (Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricutural University, Pusa, Samastipur, 2019) Kumar, Amit; Ansari, Naushad
    The study entitled “Adoption Behaviour of Jute Growers in KosiRegion of Bihar” was conducted with the specific objectives to know the socio-economic conditions, their level of knowledge and extent of adoption about jute cultivation practices along with the association between selected independent variables. Attempts were also made to identify the constraints faced by the jute growers and to explore the suggestions given by them to overcome the constraints and various problems occurring in jute cultivation. The present study was carried out in Kosi region of Bihar. Three district namely Madhepura, Saharsa and Supaul were selected for the study, from these three districts one block from each district were selected on the basis of major area under jute cultivation.And from each block two villages were selected randomly, further fifteen respondents were selected from each villages constituting a total sample size of 90 jute growers for the study purposes. Face to face interaction with the help of well prepared interview schedule was used for collection of data. The collected data were analyzed with the help of frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation and Pearson‟s correlation coefficient. The study revealed that majority of the jute growers of Kosi region were belonged to middle age group, having primary/middle school level of education, maximum percentage of them belonged to backward class and having marginal land holding area. It was also indicated that majority of them having medium level of their annual income from all available sources,they were medium in contact with different extension agencies, their exposure to mass media tools were medium to high. They were also medium in orientation towards scientific cultivation, economic orientation and also in risk bearing ability. The findings also indicated that, they weremedium in level of knowledge and extent of adoption of jute production technology.The study also revealed that out of ten independent variables, eight variables i.e. education, land holding, annual income, extension contact, mass media exposure, scientific orientation, economic orientation and risk orientation shows positive significant relationship with the knowledge level and extent of adoption of jute growers towards jute cultivation practices. Age shows negative correlation with knowledge level and adoption of jute growers and caste shows non-significant relationship with the level of knowledge and adoption. It is concluded that the major constraints faced by the jute growers in Kosi region of Bihar were lack of mechanization for processing of jute after harvest, lack of proper storage house, appearance of different types of insect, pest and diseases, intensity of flood and drought, lack of proper marketing channel, unaware of the practice of seed treatment, lack of technical knowledge with respect to use of pesticides, lack of assured and adequate irrigation facility and poor drainage system and lack of extension service. The important suggestion given by jute growers were develop mechanization for extraction of jute, develop water resources and timely availability of water for retting, establishment of retting tanks, release of flood tolerant varieties, providing good quality seed at cheaper rate, appropriate control measures of pest and diseases, timely technical guidance and soil testing, provision of fertilizers on subsidized rates, supply of effective plant protection chemicals,provision of credit facility, develop proper market structure to overcome the problem by middle manand providing good transport facility .
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    Enhancing Wheat Productivity through SWI:A Impact Study of Samastipur District
    (Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur), 2017) Kumari, Shweta; Prakash, Satya
    System of Wheat Intensification (SWI) is a synergistic management technique involving a few components of wheat farming such as planting, irrigation, weeding, nutrient management and seed treatment. The management practices under SWI provide better conditions for growth of wheat crop particularly in the root zone than those plants grown under traditional or conventional wheat farming. Seed treatment or seed priming generally improves germination and helps in early emergence of seedlings. Maintaining controlled plant density is the crucial part in wheat cultivation. Most of the SWI recommendations are of maintaining wider spacing with less number of seeds per hill. OBJECTIVES OF INVESTIGATION: 1. To explore the socio-economic and demographical profile of adopters and non-adopters of SWI. 2. To assess the level of knowledge about SWI of adopters and non adopters. 3. To ascertain the perception and attitude of selected respondent about SWI. 4. To find out reasons of non-adoption partial adoption and adoption of packages and practices related with SWI. Thahara, Morsand, Indrawara and Sarangpur villages were selected from Pusa and Morwa block respectively of Samastipur district. The total numbers of respondents were 60 out of 30 were adopters and 30 were non-adopters. Collection of data through interview method. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. Statistical tools frequency and percentage were used for analysis of the data. The analysis revealed that among the adopters, nearly 50 per cent of them belong to young age group, while among non-adopters 40 per cent belongs to old age group. It is also revealed that nearly 40 percent of adopters were from BC category, whereas 36.67 per cent of non-adopters were from BC category. 63.34 per cent of adopters were farming as occupation but among non-adopters 73.33 per cent were farming as occupation. Majority of the adopters, 65 per cent were found to have studied beyond high school and graduation, while 50 per cent non-adopters were educated beyond high school and graduation. Among adopters, nearly 70 per cent were small and marginal farmers, and among non-adopters 70 per cent were marginal and medium farmers. In case of adopters, nearly 60 per cent had income ranging from 1.5 to 2 lakh rupees i.e. medium to high whereas 80 per cent non-adopters had very low to low income. Among the adopters, 30 per cent were not a member of any organization and 50 per cent were member of one organization whereas 60 per cent respondents of non-adopters were not a member of any organization and 33 per cent were member of one organization. Both among adopters and non-adopters nearly 80 per cent respondents were utilized pumping set for irrigation purpose. Localite interpersonal information source were ‘often’ or ‘sometimes’ utilized by majority of respondents from both samples. But among adopters contact with scientist was most among all under ‘most often’ category. With respect to knowledge of various components of SWI technology found that 50-80 per cent respondents of adopters had medium to high level knowledge, but in case of non-adopters 40 per cent respondents had medium to high level knowledge. Among adopters 42.67 per cent had strongly agree and 3.56 per cent had strongly disagree perception, but in case of non-adopters 35.33 per cent of respondents had strongly agree and 8.67 per cent had strongly disagree perception. Among the adopters, 50 per cent had favourable attitude. But among non-adopters 40 per cent had unfavourable attitude. With respect to adoption of SWI technology majority of adopters were found to be ‘medium adopting’ i. e. 50 per cent whereas in case of non-adopters 60 per cent of respondents had low level of adoption.