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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: Farm, Machinery and Power × Author: Kumar, Gaurav × Start date: 2003 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Tech. ×
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    DETECTION AND INDICATION OF SEED CLOGGING IN FURROW OPENER FOR TRACTOR DRAWN SEEDERS
    (DRPCAU, PUSA, 2022) Kumar, Gaurav; Pranav, P. K.
    The seeder machine is of the unique techniques which is used for sowing seeds in standing stubble of crop residue. The clogging of boot in seeder is very common which results in missing of seed drop in lines. Many a times, a person stands behind the drill to observe it which is very pathetic and unsafe. A monitoring system has been developed to sense and indicate the clogging of boot in seed drills. The developed system has sensing unit, processing unit and audio-visual alarming unit as its integral components. The sensing unit contains ultrasonic sensor which senses the diametral length of the seed tube. An Arduino mega forms processing unit that performs logical operations based on the data received from sensing unit and sends signal to audio-visual alarming unit. The alert unit has 11 LED and a buzzer which gets activated according to the logic fed to the processing unit through code. The developed system was evaluated in lab on simulator and in field for detecting clogging during wheat and rice drilling. It was observed during laboratory evaluation that the clogging was detected and respective LED was ON when average 12.39 and 17.30 grams paddy and wheat was collected in a seed tube, respectively. In field evaluation, the average weight of seeds collected during this interval was 18.33 and 22.33 g for paddy and wheat, respectively. It is observed that there was an average time lag of 15 s in detecting clogging manually and the indication provided by the indication panel. Average distance covered by the seed drill before detecting the seed clogging manually for paddy and wheat were 2.96 and 1.26 m at seed rate of 35kg/ha and 100 kg/ha, respectively which is 24.85 % higher when detected by the panel provided through LED glow and buzzer. Thus, the developed system was successful in sensing and indicating the clogging of seed boot during planting of paddy and wheat.