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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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    Screening of Chickpea Genotypes against Pulse beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis (L.) Resistance under the Laboratory Conditions.
    (Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur), 2018) Kumari, Lovely; Ahmad, Md. Abbas
    Screening of chickpea genotypes against Callosobruchus chinensis resistance with the biophysical and biochemical parameters, observations in the laboratory in the Department of Entomology at Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa during 2016-17, the results indicated that C1025 (97.22 eggs) was highly preferred for egg laying by C. chinensis while, C1021 (46.82 eggs) was found least preferred for oviposition. The minimum per cent adult emergence was observed on C1088 (59.14%) and the maximum percent adult emergence was observed on C1022 (76.22%). The maximum time for the development on C1021 (30.06 days).The minimum developmental period was recorded on C1120 (24.90 days). BG256 was found to be least susceptible to the attack by C. chinensis showing lowest growth index (2.09). The C1120 was found to be highly susceptible for the attack of beetle showing the highest growth index (3.10). The per cent loss in weight varied from maximum of 47.76% on C1025 to minimum of 09.81% on C1147. The results indicated that seed coat thickness ranged from 0.09 to 0.31 mm with maximum in C1064 (0.31 mm) and minimum in C1021 (0.09 mm). 100 seed weight ranged from 13.88 to 31.53 grams with maximum in BG 256 (38.03g) and minimum in C1063 (13.88g). The female beetle laid the lowest number of eggs on rough and small seeds of C1021, however, it preferred to highest number of eggs on smooth and medium seeds of C1025. None of the genotypes were completely resistant to the attack of C. chinensis differed in the resistance, which may seems to be due to the physical seed characters (colour, shape, size , texture, seed coat thickness and 100 seed weight) of chickpea genotypes. The results indicated that genotype C1120 (22.77g/100 grams of seed) with high protein content recorded high growth index (3.10) indicating that the genotypes were more preferred by the C. chinensis. On the other hand, low growth index on BG256 (18.56g./100 grams of seed) genotype may be attributed to low protein content. Genotypes C1022, C1121, C1021, C1063, C1023 with less phenol content had more growth index as compared to less susceptible genotypes C1156, C1088, and BG372 which showed less growth index. The genotype C1120 (0.39 mg/g) with less flavonoids content had high growth index as compared to moderately susceptible genotypes C1022 (0.76 mg/g seed) and less susceptible genotypes BG256 (0.88 mg/g).The lowest tannin content was drowned in genotypes, C1088 (0.260). However, highest tannin content was recorded in genotypes C1025 (0.433).