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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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    Training needs of rural youths in Agricultural enterprises: A Study in Samastipur district of Bihar
    (DRPCAU, Pusa, 2020) Behera, Subhrajit; Prakash, Satya
    The present study was conducted in Samastipur district of Bihar with an objective to training needs of rural youths in agricultural enterprises: a study in Samastipur district of Bihar. Two villages from every two blocks were selected. Total numbers of four villages and two blocks were selected for the research study. In total 22 rural youths from each village were selected randomly to comprise a sample of 88 respondents for study purpose. The information was collected through the personal interview to get the required data. Ex-post-facto research design was adopted for this study. It was noticed that (64.77%) were young age group (23-31 years), (59.09%) were in OBC category, (51.13%) were engaged in cultivation/farming, (34.09%) were illiterate, (65.91%) had medium size family, (57.96%) belonged to joint family, (57.96%) had a small size of land holding, (81.82%) had medium annual income, (52.27%) had a medium level of innovativeness, (63.63%) had a medium level of achievement motivation, (71.59%) had a medium level of occupational aspiration, (71.59%) had a medium farming experience, (71.59%) had medium contact with extension agency, (67.04%) had medium mass media exposure. It was noticed that regarding leisure-time activities (43.19%) had informal groups, (23.87%) conducted group meetings in the temple, (31.81%) were discussed about sports, (43.18%) were engaged in cricket, (46.59%) were engaged in TV and Mobile, (61.37%) were used mobile phones for chatting, (48.87%) were used WhatsApp in social media. It was noticed that among the major areas of training need in agriculture, the maximum need of training of rural youth was found to be in mushroom production (2.80) followed by both poultry and cattle farming (2.51), goat farming (2.47), beekeeping (2.45), vermiculture (2.43), fishery (2.32), floriculture (protected cultivation) (2.22) and fruit and vegetable production (2.07). It was observed that in correlation analysis innovativeness and contact with extension agency had a significant positive relationship with training needs of rural youths and highly significant at 1%. Actual family income had a significant negative relationship with the training needs of rural youths and significant at 5%. Family type, achievement motivation and occupational aspiration had positively non-significant. Age, occupation, education and involvement with farming experience had negatively non-significant. It was observed that in multiple regression family type, innovativeness and contact with extension agency had positive and significant at 5%. Actual family income had negative and significant at 5%. Age, occupation, occupational aspiration had positively non-significant. Education, achievement motivation and involvement with farming experience had negatively non-significant. It was noticed that for the organization of training in agriculture related areas village was the most favourable area in receiving training for about a month in Kharif season at the morning time. Scientists were preferred to receive training and regular training were the most required follow-up support for the respondents.