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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 Education × Author: Rozi, Afsana × End date: 2023 × Start date: 2023 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Study of Information Management Behavior among Small and Marginal Maize Farmers of Bihar
    (RPCAU, Pusa, 2023) Rozi, Afsana; Satpathy, Bineeta
    The research titled "Study of Information Management Behavior among Small and Marginal Maize Farmers of Bihar" was conducted with the primary goal of assessing the Information Management Behavior (IMB) of small and marginal maize growers. Additionally, the study aimed to explore the associations between various independent variables and the IMB of thefarmers.The maize farmers are selected because Bihar is third largest producer in maize and ranked first in Rabi maize production in India. Maize is grown in all 38 districts of Bihar. In 2020-2021 Bihar produced 3521410 MT maize in 673395 ha area (Source:- Directorate of Economics & Statistics).Current study was conducted inMuzaffarpur and Samastipur district which was selected purposively for the study as this two district comes under major maize producing district of Bihar. In 2020-2021 Samastipur and Muzaffarpur produced 278718MT and 96146 MT in 63239 ha and 33240 ha area respectively (Source:- Directorate of Economics & Statistics). From the two district two blocks Kalyanpur and Dholi was randomly selected and two Villages selected from each block. Out of the four villages 30 respondent are selected randomly from each villages. Total 120 respondent are chosen for the study.The data for this study was gathered using the personal interview method, involving visits to the farms and homes of the respondents. Through these face-to-face interactions, valuable information about the information management behavior of small and marginal maize farmers in Bihar was obtained.To analyze the collected data, various statistical techniques were employed like frequency, arithmetic mean, standard deviation correlation analysis multiple linear regression. Majority of the respondent are medium age group (41.67% ) who have medium family size (46.67% ) living in joint families (73.33% ) and literate till higher secondary (36.67%) with high farming experience above 10 years.majority of respondents 74.17%, exhibited a medium level of risk orientation and 71.67 percent, reported having a medium level of family income and the source of income was crop and labour. Farmers are mainly marginal farmers (68.33%) having medium cultivated area and area under maize with 79.17% have farmers having partial irrigation facility. Majority (43.33%) exhibit a high market orientation, 63.33% farmers have a medium level of contact with extension agencies, 69.17% maize farmers have a medium level of exposure to mass media channels for agricultural information. Majority of farmer has medium level of extension participation with medium level of economic (61.67%) and Scientific motivation (72.50%).Cultivated area, area under maize, contact with extension agency, mass media exposure and extension participation has positive and significant relationship with INB, IAB, IPB and IDB. The Adjusted R Square value is 0.660, the adjusted R Square suggests that approximately 66% of the variation in the dependent variable (IMB) can be explained by the independent variables included in the model. Contact with extension agency, mass media exposure and extension participation has positive and significant relationship at 1% level of significance with the information management behavior of maize farmers.The low p-value (0.000b) suggests that ANOVA model is significant and has explanatory power in predicting the dependent variable (IMB).Scarcity of updated information rank first in the constraints face by maize farmers followed less ability to buy smart phones/ laptops due to high cost. Least rank given to less networking among farmers as the finding from information acquisition behavior of farmers most of farmers said that they get information from fellow farmers, friends and relative.