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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: Kumari, Pooja × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2015 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Weed management in direct seeded rice under rainfed lowland ecosystem
    (Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur), 2015) Kumari, Pooja; Singh, J. P.
    A field experiment entitled “Weed management in direct seeded rice under rainfed lowland ecosystem” was carried out at the Agricultural Research Farm, Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar (India), during kharif season of 2014to evaluate the efficiency of different herbicides and their impact on yield and economic of direct seeded rice. The soil of the experimental field was calcareous (clay- loam) with pH 8.43. It was moderately fertile being low in organic carbon (0.46 %), available nitrogen(242 kg N ha-1),phosphorus (18.38 kg P2O5 ha-1) andpotassium (111 kg K2O ha-1). The factors under study comprised of 12 weed management treatments on direct seeded rice. T1-Weedy check, T2-Weed free(3 hand weedings at 20,40 and 60 DAS), T3-Pendimethalin 1 l/ha(2 DAS) fb Bispyribac-Na 30 g/ha + Azimsulfuron 30 g/ha in tank mix (20 DAS), T4-Pendimethalin 1 l/ha(2 DAS) fb Bispyribac-Na 30 g/ha + Azimsulfuron 15 g/ha in tank mix (20 DAS),T5-Pendimethalin 1 l/ha(2 DAS) fb Bispyribac-Na 15 g/ha + Azimsulfuron 30 g/ha in tank mix (20 DAS), T6-Pendimethalin 1 l/ha(2 DAS) fb Bispyribac-Na 15 g/ha + Azimsulfuron 15 g/ha in tank mix (20 DAS), T7-Pendimethalin 1 l/ha(2 DAS) fb Pendimethalin 1 l/ha + Bispyribac-Na 30 g/ha in tank mix (20 DAS), T8-Pendimethalin 1 l/ha(2 DAS) fb Pendimethalin 1 l/ha + Bispyribac-Na 15 g/ha in tank mix (20 DAS), T9-Bispyribac-Na 30 g/ha + Pyrazosulfuron 25 g/ha in tank mix (20 DAS), T10-Bispyribac-Na 30 g/ha + Ethoxysulfuron 18.5 g/ha in tank mix(20 DAS), T11-Pendimethalin 1 l/ha (2 DAS) fb Bispyribac-Na 30 g/ha (20 DAS) + Hand weeding (40 DAS), T12-Brown manuring with Sesbenia aculeate at 35 DAS.The experiment was conducted in RBD design and was replicated thrice taking rice variety Swarna Sub-1 as a test crop with RDF- 80-40-20-25 kg N-P2O5-K2O-ZnS04 per ha, respectively.Other crop management practices were performed as per standard package of practices.Among different weed management treatments on direct seeded rice, T2-Weed free (3 hand weedings at 20,40 and 60 DAS) had registered the maximum growth, yield attributes and yield of direct seeded rice, which remain comparable to T11-Pendimethalin 1 l/ha (2 DAS) fb Bispyribac-Na 30 g/ha (20 DAS) + Hand weeding (40 DAS), T3-Pendimethalin 1 l/ha (2 DAS) fb Bispyribac-Na 30 g/ha + Azimsulfuron 30 g/ha in tank mix (20 DAS), T5-Pendimethalin 1 l/ha (2 DAS) fb Bispyribac-Na 15 g/ha + Azimsulfuron 30 g/ha in tank mix (20 DAS), T4-Pendimethalin 1 l/ha (2 DAS) fb Bispyribac-Na 30 g/ha + Azimsulfuron 15 g/ha in tank mix (20 DAS), and T12-Brown manuring with Sesbenia aculeate at 35 DAS.The maximum weed control efficiency and lowest weed population, weed dry weight andweed index were recorded under treatment T2-Weed free(3 hand weedings at 20,40 and 60 DAS).The maximum nutrient content and nutrient uptake were registered under T2-Weed free (3 hand weedings at 20,40 and 60 DAS). The highest net return gained withT12-Brown manuring with Sesbenia aculeate at 35 DAS, which was significantly superior over T2-Weed free (3 hand weedings at 20, 40 and 60 DAS) and T1-Weedy checkwhich wasstatistically at par with rest of the treatments and benefit : cost ratio was also obtained maximum under T12- Brown manuring with Sesbenia aculeate at 35 DAS and significantly superior to rest of the treatments. On the basis one year data, among different weed management treatments applied on direct seeded rice, T3-Pendimethalin 1 l/ha (2 DAS) fb Bispyribac-Na 30 g/ha + Azimsulfuron 30 g/ha in tank mix (20 DAS) had efficiently control the complex weed flora.T2-Hand weeding (Thrice) was found best interms of yield and yield attributing characters and T12-Brown manuring with Sesbenia aculeate at 35 DAS was found superior in terms of economics.