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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: GUPTA, PRIYANKA × End date: 2022 × Start date: 2022 × Type: Thesis ×
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    PERFORMANCE OF FORAGE PEARLMILLET UNDER NITROGEN AND CUTTING MANAGEMENT
    (Dr.RPCAU, Pusa, 2022) GUPTA, PRIYANKA; DHARMINDER
    A field experiment was carried in the Kharif season of year 2020-2021 at Pusa Farm, Dr. R.P.C.A.U. Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar, to investigate the ―PERFORMANCE OF FORAGE PEARLMILLET UNDER NITROGEN AND CUTTING MANAGEMENT”. The main aim of the research was to study the effect of nitrogen and cutting management on yield and yield attributes, quality parameters and economics of forage pearlmillet varieties. Split plot design was layed, experimental material consisted of 4 pearlmillet varieties, namely TSFB 15-4, TSFB 15-8, MOTI BAJRA and BAIF BAJRA-1as the main plot. The sub plots consisted of two factors, one being the levels of nitrogen at 80 kg/ha and 120 kg/ha, while the other factor was cutting management- two cut and three cut management system. The soil belonged to the sandy loam textural class with the percentage of sand, silt and clay 57.74%, 27.86% and 14.40% respectively. While organic carbon was reported as 0.41 %, available nitrogen came out 196.7 kg/ha , available phosphorus was found 20.05 kg/ha , available potassium was 119.6 kg/ha , pH was estimated 8.34 whereas EC was 0.33 dS/m. The growth parameters taken into consideration were plant height (cm), number of tillers per row length, number of leaves per plant and leaf: stem ratio of the plants. Quality attributes consisted of total CPC (%) and its yield (q/ha), ash content (%) and its yield (q/ha) and content of NPK uptake (kg/ha). Besides this, green forage yield (t/ha) and dry matter yield (t/ha) were estimated and then the total cost of cultivation, gross returns, net returns and B:C ratio was calculated using all the available data. The observations were recorded separately for first cut, second and third cut and then the interaction effects of nitrogen and cutting managements on the parameters were observed. The growth studies showed significant variations among varieties with varying nitrogen and cutting managements. BAIF BAJRA-1showed a maximum plant height which was statistically at par with MOTI BAJRA and TSFB 15-8 whereas TSFB 15-4 had the minimum plant height. In all the cuts, maximum plant height was obtained when nitrogen was applied at 120 kg/ha, with maximum plant height observed in the first cut, followed by second and third cut. In general the two cut management gave better plant height as compared to the three cut management. Quality traits were maximum in MOTI BAJRA in first cut. The NPK uptake was affected in the sub-plots with different varieties where maximum Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium uptake was worked out in MOTI BAJRA and BAIF BAJRA-1. NPK uptake and ash content values were greater in two cut and crude protein values were more in the three cut management. Green fodder yield and dry matter yield of BAIF BAJRA-1 was highest among all varieties. These yield parameters were higher in the two cut management practice and at application of 120 kg/ha N. Although the total cost of cultivation remained same for all the varieties, BAIF BAJRA-1 excelled other varieties in terms of gross returns, net returns and B:C ratio, closely followed by MOTI BAJRA. Minimum cost of cultivation, highest net returns and thus highest B:C ratio were however incurred by the two cut management practice. The interactions of nitrogen levels and different cutting managements were found to be non-significant.