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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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    ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT AMONG SUGARCANE GROWERS THROUGH JAGGERY PRODUCTION: A STUDY OF BELAGAVI DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA
    (DRPCAU, PUSA, 2021) HOSAMANI, AKSHAY NARAYAN; ANSARI, M. N.
    Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.) is important cash crop grown across 120 countries in world. It is providing raw material for several agro based industries for the development of the country after textiles. It commands greater significance due to their remarkable contribution to our nation economy through foreign exchange earnings. Entrepreneurship is necessary for sugarcane industry for socio economic development of rural areas by mobilizing rural resources, generating employment and enhancing income of the farmers. In the rapid growing world, every country tries to achieve high socio economic development for the prosperity of the society and betterment of its people. Rural society is made up of farming people. So, the contribution of farmers in economic activities is very much important for a healthy nation building. For the value addition to sugarcane products, there is need to promote entrepreneurship among farmers and development of small scale agro based industries in the villages. Keeping all these aspects in view, the present study entitled “Entrepreneurship development among sugarcane growers through Jaggery production: A study of Belagavi district of Karnataka” has been undertaken with following specific objectives: 1. To understand the socio-economic, personal and communication attributes of sugarcane growers involved in Jaggery production. 2. To assess the entrepreneurial behaviour of jaggery producers. 3. To find out association between selected independent variables with entrepreneurial behaviour of jaggery producers and 4.To identify the constraints faced by the jaggery producers and to suggest the remedial measures. The study was conducted in the two blocks of Belagavi district of Karnataka state during the year 2020-2021. A total of 90 respondents were randomly selected for the present study. The data were collected by personal interview method and with the help of a structured interview schedule prepared for the study. The study revealed that majority of respondents with socio-economic, personal and communication attributes like age group, family size, farming experience, live-stock holding, annual family income, extension contact, mass media exposure, cosmopoliteness were falling under medium level in study locale. The study also found that majority of the respondents was male category, possess nuclear family and were completed up to secondary school education. Greater significance of respondents was participated in more than one organization and was having medium land holding up to 4-10 ha. The findings also indicated that the majority of jaggery producers had medium level of innovativeness (68.88%), decision making ability (62.22%), risk orientation (67.77%), knowledge on farming experience (50.00%), and information seeking behavior (60.00%), achievement motivation (68.88%), economic motivation (56.66%), leadership ability (65.55%), scientific orientation (58.88%) and management orientation (65.55%). It was also found that majority (71.11%) of jaggery producers had medium level of entrepreneurial behavior. Variables of family size, family type, category, livestock holding had negatively significant and education, occupation, mass media and cosmopoliteness had positively significant association with entrepreneurial behavior of jaggery producers. Non -availability of labours (Rank I), high wages of labours (Rank II), low price (Rank III), exploitation by middle man (Rank IV), lack of technical guidance and high cost of inputs (Rank V) and high interest rate on loan and insufficient repayment time (Rank VI) were the major constraints faced by jaggery producers.