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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: Extension Education × Author: Gaur, Rishabh Singh × End date: 2023 × Start date: 2022 ×
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    PM-KISAN SAMMAN NIDHI SCHEME: ITS AWARENESS AND UTILIZATION PATTERN IN KANPUR DEHAT DISTRICT (UP)
    (DRPCAU, PUSA, 2022) Gaur, Rishabh Singh; Paswan, Arun Kumar
    The study entitled “PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi Scheme: Its Awareness and Utilization pattern in Kanpur Dehat district (UP)”. The study was carried out with specific objectives to assess the awareness and utilization pattern of PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme along with the association between independent and dependent variables selected in the study. Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh was purposively selected for the study. There are ten blocks in Kanpur Dehat district. Out of ten blocks, two blocks were selected purposively i.e. the blocks which were having maximum PM-Kisan beneficiary in Kanpur Dehat. Further, two villages from each block were selected following the random sampling technique. For selection of respondents, 30 PM-Kisan beneficiaries from each of the four selected villages were chosen as sample respondents by following the random sampling technique. Thus, a total of 120 PM-Kisan beneficiaries were constituted as sample respondents for the study purpose. The information was collected through personal interview method by visiting the farm and home of the respondents. The collected data were analyzed with the help of frequency distribution, arithmetic mean, standard deviation and correlation analysis. The study reveals that, majority of the respondents (61.66 %) were found under the old aged group, having functionally literate (30.83 percent, majority), belongs to Other backward Caste (45 percent) , small size of family (87.50 percent), had small size of land holding (45.00 percent), member in one organization (38.33 percent), having medium level of annual income (65.83 percent), having medium level of farming experience (57.5 percent). The findings also depicted that majority of the respondents have medium level of risk orientation, economic motivation, scientific orientation and innovativeness. It has been observed from the study that maximum percentage (54.17 percent) of the respondents had high level of awareness and utilization pattern (57.50 percent) of money received through PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. The relationship between socio-economic variables and awareness level about PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme of the study indicated that four independent variables namely age, size of the family and farming experience were found to be positively correlated at 1% level of significance whereas, variable annual income is positively correlated with the awareness level at 5% level of significance about PM- Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. It means above four independent variables were significantly contributed towards level of awareness PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. Regarding relationship between socio-economic variables and utilization of the money of PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme by beneficiary respondents shows that seven variables were found to be significant. Out of these seven variables, four independent variables viz. education, size of the family, economic motivation and innovativeness were found to be significant at 1 percent level of significance. Whereas, variables viz. size of the land holding, annual income and scientific orientation were found to be significant at 5 percent level of significance. It can be concluded that above mentioned seven independent variables were significantly contributed towards utilization pattern of money received from PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme.