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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: Food and Nutrition × Author: N., Lavanya × End date: 2019 × Start date: 2017 ×
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    Development and evaluation of ready to use infant food
    (DRPCAU, Pusa, Samastipur, 2019) N., Lavanya; Singh, Usha
    Infancy is defined as the period from birth to approximately two years of age. Young children are typically referred to as infants in the first year. To study the nutritional status, feeding pattern and food diversity gap among infants and young children two villages namely Harpur and Deopar have been purposively selected. For the study 60 infants and young children were selected by random sampling technique. Among 60 infants and young children, majority of them were girls (32) and rest were boys (28). A total of 70.1 per cent fathers and 68.34 per cent mothers of the infants and young children couldn’t complete their education even upto the level of matriculation. The monthly income range of the 90 per cent families had been Rs.3,334 to Rs.12,500 only. A good percentage (26.67 %) of children are not getting complementary food at the age of 6 months and they are being continued only on mother’s milk. While concerning the number of food groups consumption, 50 per cent children are not getting minimum 5 food groups in their daily diet. It has been concluded that only 28.33 per cent children were found to be normal in the study area. Rest 71.67 per cent children were having problem of undernutrition that has been depicted through stunted; wasted; wasted and underweight; stunted and underweight; and wasted, stunted and underweight. The percentage of underweight children was highest (28.33 %), followed by 18.34 per cent children wasted and underweight, 10 per cent wasted and 5 per cent stunted and underweight. Out of the total population studied, 10 per cent children were observed to be wasted, stunted and underweight which puts the children in danger zone. The prevalence of stunting has come to 43.33 per cent. For the development of ready to use instant food mixes, the locally available foodmaterials like peanut, ragi, wheat, rice, maize, sugar, milk powder and ghee had been procured from the local market of Pusa