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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: Kant, Utpal × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2019 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Study of technological gap in adoption of cauliflower and cabbage production technology in Patna district
    (Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, 2019) Kant, Utpal; Paswan, Arun Kumar
    The study entitled “A study of technological gap in adoption of Cauliflower and Cabbage production technology in Patna district” was conducted with the specific objectives to know the magnitude of the technological gap among the Cauliflower and Cabbage grower along with the association between selected independent variables. Attempts was also made to explore the market channel used by Cauliflower and Cabbage growers and to study the constraints responsible for the technological gap and to suggest suitable measures for accelerating the extent of adoption of Cauliflower and Cabbage production technology. The present study was carried out in Patna district. There are twenty three blocks in Patna district. Out of twenty three blocks, two blocks namely Khusrupur and Bakhtiyarpur were selected purposively. Further, two villages from each block were chosen following the same criteria.20 Cauliflower and Cabbage growers from each of the four selected villages were selected constituting a sample of total 80 respondents for the study purposes. Interview technique was used for collection of data with the help of structured interview schedule. The collected data were analyzed with the help of frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson’s coefficient correlation. The study revealed that, Majority of cauliflower and cabbage growers were of middle age group (42.5 percent), upto secondary & higher secondary education (45.00 percent), backward classes (45 percent), medium family size (46.25 percent), marginal land holding (45.00 percent), medium economic motivation (62.50 percent), medium market orientation (52.50 percent), medium farm mechanization (56.25 percent), medium annual income (78.75 percent) and medium contact with extension agency (58.75 percent). The study shows that, maximum of 56.25 percent of respondents were having medium level of technology adoption and 25.00 percent respondents were having high level of technology adoption. The study also reveals that, maximum of 61.25 percent respondents were having medium level of technological gap and only 15.00 percent respondents having high level of technological gap. The findings indicated that, variables age, contact with extension agency and caste were negatively and significantly associated. The other variables like annual income, farm mechanization and size of land holding were negatively and high significantly associated with technological gap among the Cauliflower and Cabbage growers. The findings also indicated that, variables educations, family size, and market orientation were positively but non-significant associated with technological gap. However variable economic motivation were negatively and non- significantly associated with technological gap among the Cauliflower and Cabbage growers The findings revealed that majority of respondents (81.25 percent) sold their produce in local vegetable market. Majority of respondents (56.25 percent) used to sell their produce through middle man and the source of price information were using cell phones and personally visiting the market. The main constraints responsible for the technological gap perceived by Cauliflower and Cabbage growers were lack of disease resistant varieties (68.75 percent), high cost of insecticides and pesticides (75.00 percent) ,lack of storage facilities (87.50 percent), sudden decrease in price at harvesting time (72.50 percent) and lowest constraints perceived by Cauliflower and Cabbage growers were less availability of irrigation water (35.00 percent). The study suggests for an effective extension effort to be made to transfer the technology among the Cauliflower and Cabbage growers. Also it suggests for bearing of appropriate machineries to provide the technological requisites to the Cauliflower and Cabbage growers to earn more profit.