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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: Priya, Ritu × End date: 2017 × Start date: 2014 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Nutritional Knowledge and its impact on General Health and Academic performance of university students
    (Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur), 2017) Priya, Ritu; Sinha, Mukul
    The present study entitled Nutritional Knowledge and its impact on General Health and Academic performance of university students has been taken up with the following objectives- To study the socio-economic status of boys and girl students of university residing in the hostel, To assess their anthropometric, clinical and dietary status, To find out life-style patterns among them, To assess the nutritional knowledge of the university boys and girls, To assess the relationship of their socio-economic status, nutritional knowledge, nutritional intake, and other life-style patterns with overall nutritional status and academic performance. For this study student from different Colleges of Dr. R.P.C.A.U i.e., 30 boys and 30 girls who were completing their seventh semester were selected purposively. For this purpose, interview schedule was developed and nutritional status of the subjects were evaluated through anthropometric measurement of height, weight and BMI, haemoglobin level and 24 hours dietary recall method.   Out of total subjects majority of the students i.e., 55 per cent were of the age of 20-22 years. In terms of religion 97 per cent were belonged to Hindu religion whereas in terms of caste (65 per cent) were from the backward caste. Majority of students i.e., 53 per cent were non vegetarian. 73.33 per cent students received Rs. 3000-5000 as monthly personal allowance from parents and 80 percent students had source of income from parent’s salary and fellowship both. The result of the family profile showed that 57 percent students belonged to nuclear family, 40 percent were from 5-7 family size & 43 percent students have family income 1-3 lakh per annum and 60 percent student’s parent occupation was private or government service. The data for the anthropometric measurement revealed that 50 percent boys fall in the range of 60-70 kg body weight. In terms of height majority of boys students i.e.,60 percent boys students and 43 percent girls students falls under the range of 165-175cm and 155- 165 cm respectively. Majority (86.66%) boys and 63.33 percent girls come under BMI 18.5-25.0 (normal) category. The hemoglobin estimation shows that 28.33 percent boys and 26.66 percent girl’s had hemoglobin level between 10-12g/dl. The energy, protein, fat, iron, calcium, and folic acid intake of boys were more than girl students whereas girls were taking more vitamin C and vitamin B12 than boys. In terms of clinical status 6.66 percent boys were having angular stomatitis and pain and sensation in the leg, on the other hand 13.33 and 6.66 percent girl students having pain and sensation in the leg, angular stomatitis and dry scaly dermatitis. In disease history 13.33 percent boys students suffered from acute fever and 20 percent girl students suffered from typhoid in last six month. The overall nutritional knowledge level of 50 percent of students was low. In academic performance 46.66 percent of boys and girls students had OGPA in between 7-7.9. above 41.66 percent boys student and 48.33 percent girls walk, 100 percent students uses whatsapp, 78.33 percent students watch News channel and 28.33 percent students smoke cigarettes. The relationship between personal allowance and OGPA with parent’s income was found correlated and significant. The relation of age with weight was found significant whereas with height and BMI was found highly significant. A significant relation was found between height and weight with intake of carbohydrate, protein, energy whereas intake of iron, calcium and fat was found significant with weight only. The relationship between protein and iron intake was found significant with haemoglobin level of students. The relationship of nutrient intake of energy and fat was found positively significant whereas calcium intake was found inversely significant with OGPA. Relation of nutritional knowledge with haemoglobin and OGPA was found significant. The relationship between physical exercise and BMI was found inversely related & significant. Watching TV and social networking was positively related with weight. The relation of study duration with OGPA was found significant. The socioeconomic profile had very little effect on nutritional knowledge and OGPA. Therefore, it may be concluded that the Nutrition knowledge is an important contributory factor to keep young generation healthy and help them performing better in their academic performance.