Thumbnail Image

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.

Browse

20221
Reset filters
Subject: Food and Nutrition × Author: KORANGA, AYUSHI × End date: 2023 × Type: Thesis ×
Reset filters

Search Results

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
  • Thumbnail Image
    ThesisItemOpen Access
    IMPACT OF DIETARY COUNSELLING ON NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF ELDERLY IN BIHAR
    (Dr.RPCAU, Pusa, 2022) KORANGA, AYUSHI; Chaudhary, Gitanjali
    Aging is the process of growing old chronologically. The term aging is often applied to the people of middle age (40 to 60 years) and old age (above the age of 60 years). The health of the people is an important issue defining the health status of a population. Malnutrition in elderly people is very common because daily food consumption decreases with old age.Aging and nutrition has explicit intrinsic relationship. Old age has direct effect on required amounts of nutrients, their absorption and subsequent metabolism. Other factors like feeding difficulty, psychological distress, reduced mobility, being widowed, illiteracy, poverty and poor access to health and social services may also affect the nutritional status of elderly people. Thus, the majority of the health problems are nutrition related and nutrition dependent. Therefore, it is very essential to assess the nutritional status of the elderly people to initiate appropriate nutrition interventions/counselling to prevent or delay the adverse health effects of malnutrition among elderly people. The present study was carried out with the objective to assess the nutritional status and food consumption pattern of the elderly, to impart nutrition education and dietary counseling to the elderly and to study the impact of nutrition education and dietary counselling on the elderly. For this purpose a total of fifty elderly people were randomly selected from Teera village of Jathmalpur panchayat in Kalyanpur block of Samastipur district, Bihar. To fulfill the objective of the study, a well structured questionnaire was developed to extract relevant information from the elderly. After collection and compilation of all the data nutrition education and dietary counselling was given to the elderly people. The selected elderly subjects were given the same interview schedule again after the counselling to know the impact of nutrition education and dietary counselling on nutritional knowledge and also on daily dietary intake of the elderly. The findings of the investigation revealed that out of fifty elderly, 80.0 per cent were females and 20.0 per cent were males. The highest percent of elderly (90.0%) were illiterate and only 10.0 per cent elderly were literate. It was also found that majority of the elderly (58.0%) had low family monthly income i.e. between Rs/10,000-20,000. More females (80.0%) were underweight with mild thinness (67.5%) as comparison to male respondent (60.0%). All the elderly (100.0%) were found vegetarian and majority (44.0%) of the elderly was taking their meal two times in a day. It was also discovered that the elderly's intake of all food items was lower than the Recommended Dietary Intake. In addition, nutrient intake was also lower than Recommended Dietary Allowances. The findings of present study also revealed that females were consuming less amount of food than the males. It was observed that majority of the elderly (94.4%) had poor nutritional knowledge before imparting nutrition education and dietary counselling, while after counselling only 15.6 per cent of elderly had poor nutritional knowledge. The dietary intake of various food groups significantly (p< 0.05) increased and counselling had a positive impact on the nutrient intake of elderly people. The percentage increase in the RDA adequacy of protein, dietary fiber, calcium, iron and β carotene was observed i.e. 10.75 per cent, 16.44 per cent, 5.29 per cent, 8.58 per cent and 13.2 per cent respectively in female elderly. On the other hand in male elderly the percentage increase in the RDA adequacy was reported for protein (6.97%), dietary fiber (9.15%), calcium (5.5%), iron (4.37%) and β carotene (6.72%). The study's findings concluded that lack of nutritional knowledge combined with a low economic status has a negative impact on the nutritional status of the elderly. Proper nutritional knowledge can influence daily dietary intake and also change perceptions toward wrong food consumption practices. This can definitely improve the nutritional status of the elderly.