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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: Devi, Abha × End date: 2020 × Start date: 2020 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Performance of different rice varieties under varying transplanting dates
    (DRPCAU, Pusa, 2020) Devi, Abha; Kumar, Rajan
    A field experiment was conducted during kharif season 2019 in split plot design with three replications at Crop Research Centre, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Bihar to study the “Performance of Different Rice Varieties Under Varying Transplanting Dates”. The main plot treatments consisted of four transplanting Dates viz, 10 June , 30 June , 20 July and 10 August and the sub plot treatments consisted of four varieties viz, RajendraMahsuri, BPT 5204, Rajendra Sweta and Swarna sub 1. The soil of experimental plot was sandy loam. alkaline in nature with pH 8.2, low organic carbon i.e.0.48% and bulk density 1.42 g/cc. The result showed that various growth and yield attributes like plant height, number of tillers per m2, leaf area index, dry matter production (g/ m2), CGR (g/m2/day), number of panicles per m2, panicle length, number of grains per panicle, grain yield, straw yield , harvest index, N content (%), P content (%), K content (%), N uptake (kg/ha), P uptake (kg/ha), K uptake (kg/ha), gross return, net return, B: C ratio were found to be maximum in T1 which was significantly superior to T2, T3 and T4 and were statistically similar to T2 . But water use efficiency, N, P and K content and uptake was not significantly influenced by main plot treatments. 10 June transplanting date recorded the superior yield i.e. 62.95 q/ha followed by 30 June (57.24 q/ha), 20 July (54.47q/ha). Various growth and yield attributes like plant height, number to tillers per m2, leaf area index, dry matter production (g/ m2), CGR (g/m2/day), number of panicles per m2, panicle length, number of grains per panicle, grain yield, straw yield , harvest index, N content (%), P content (%), K content (%), N uptake (kg/ha) , P uptake (kg/ha), K uptake (kg/ha), gross return, net return, B: C ratio were significantly influenced by different varieties and maximum values for all was reported by V1 followed by V2, V4 and V3 subplot treatments.RajendraMahsuri recorded the maximum yield i.e. 64.20 q/ha followed by BPT 5204 (55.43 q/ha) and Swarna Sub 1 (52.57), while Rajendra Sweta recorded the minimum yield i.e. 48.27 q/ha amongst all varieties. Water use efficiency was also significantly influenced by varieties and maximum (59.5 kg/ha-cm) was found in which was statistically at par with V2 while minimum was found in V3.