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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: Agronomy × Author: Das, Lipika × End date: 2015 × Start date: 2014 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Effect of Moisture Regimes and levels of Iron on Growth and Yield Of Rice under Aerobic condition.
    (Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur), 2015) Das, Lipika; Kumar, Rajan
    A field experiment was conducted at Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa, Bihar during kharif season of 2014 to investigate the “Effect of moisture regimes and levels of iron on growth and yield of rice under aerobic condition”. The treatments consisted of three moisture regimes i.e. I1 (Irrigation at 10% moisture depletion of field capacity), I2 (Irrigation at 20% moisture depletion of field capacity) and I3 (Irrigation at 30% moisture depletion of field capacity) and four levels of iron F1 (Control), F2 (Basal application of 25 Kg FeSO4 +5 t/ha FYM), F3 (3 foliar application of 1% FeSO4 at tillering, pre flowering and flowering stages) and F4 (3 foliar application of 2% FeSO4 at tillering, pre flowering and flowering stages) was laid out in split plot design with three replication. The test cultivar was RAU-4 of short duration variety. The soil of experimental plot was sandy loam in texture, alkaline in reaction (pH 8.6), low in available N (155 kg/ha), P2O5 (20.23 kg/ha), K2O (120 kg/ha) and Fe (6.7 ppm). The result showed that growth and yield attributes like Plant height, number of tillers/m2, LAI, dry matter production (g/m2), crop growth rate (g/day/m2), SPAD value, number of panicles/m2, number of spikelets/panicle, fertile spikelets/panicle, grain and straw yields, N, P, K and Fe uptake by rice grain and straw, water productivity, net return were found to be maximum with I1 moisture regime which was significantly superior over I2 and I3 but was statistically at par with I2 in case of plant height and Number of tillers/m2 at all growth stages. 1000- grain weight, harvest index, N, P and K content in grain and straw and WUE were not influenced by moisture regimes. Net return and net return per rupee investment were affected significantly due to moisture regimes. The maximum net return and net return per rupee investment were fetched with I1 moisture regime which was significantly superior over other treatments. Growth and yield attributes like Plant height, number of tillers/m2, LAI, dry matter production (g/m2), crop growth rate (g/day/m2), SPAD value, number of panicles/m2, number of spikelets/panicle, Fertile spikelets/panicle, grain and straw yields, Fe content in grain and straw, N, P, K and Fe uptake by rice grain and straw, WUE were recorded with F4 level of iron which was significantly superior over F1 and F2 but were statistically at par with F3 level of iron. 1000- grain weight, harvest index, N, P and K content in grain and straw did not vary significantly due to levels of iron. Water productivity, net return, net return per rupee investment was significantly influenced by levels of iron. Maximum water productivity (4.38 /ha), net return (24598 /ha), net return per rupee investment (0.80 /ha) were recorded with F3 level of iron which were significantly superior over F1 and F2 but were statistically at par with F4 level of iron.