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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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    A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF NUTRI-FOOD ON HEALTH AND NUTRITION OF LACTATING WOMEN OF FLOOD- AFFECTED ZONE IN SAMASTIPUR DISTRICT OF BIHAR
    (Dr.RPCAU, Pusa, 2022) SEEMA; Kumari, Sunita
    Mothers are nutritionally vulnerable during childbirth and nursing, because they are subjected to numerous nutritional stresses. After giving birth to a child, females secrete milk, which is known as lactation. Lactation period recommended by WHO is six months (exclusive breastfeeding) it can last till 12-months. In rural areas, breastfeeding occurs till two years or more than this. In the present investigation selection of total 80 lactating women (0-2 years) from Tira village in Jatmalpur panchayat under Kalyanpur block of Samastipur district in Bihar, was done randomly. All subjects were divided into two groups, one as control group and another one as experimental group (where each group had 40 subjects). Only experimental group had been provisioned with nutri-food and assessment of weight gain and dietary intake was done for both the groups. An energy dense nutri-food has been standardized in the department of food and nutrition, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar. Per day serving of 130 gram nutri-food gives energy-511kcal, protein-11.5g, and total fats-11 g. This standardized Product had been used in this present investigation to see the impact on the health and nutritional status of lactating women. This was prepared with raw ingredients and distributed 130 gram/ day among the subjects of the experimental group for two months. The impact of this intervention was assessed in terms of improvement in their daily dietary intake, anthropometric measurements and clinical symptoms. The data revealed that before intervention daily intake of all food groups was inadequate in comparison of Recommended Dietary Intake (RDI) in both the groups, control as well as in the experimental group. But after the intervention, in control group, dietary intake remained same, whereas in the experimental group, there were increase in the intake of cereals & millets, pulses & legumes, sugars, and fats & oils. Similarly, before intervention, Intake of nutrients such as energy, protein, fats, carbohydrates, ẞ- carotene, calcium, vitamin-C and iron were also inadequate in comparison of Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) in both the groups. After intervention, nutrient intake remained same in control group, on the other hand, in the experimental group there were increase in the intake of energy (21%), protein (18%), fats (30%), carbohydrates (24%), calcium (15%), and iron (18%). Prior to intervention, subjects of both the groups were having some clinical symptoms such as headache, fatigue, nausea, shakiness, stomach bloating, constipation, problem-sleeping and muscle pain. Whereas, after intervention, subjects of control group had no relief in those clinical symptoms but subjects of experimental group, felt some relief in symptoms after the getting feed for two months, but was not cured completely. Most of the subjects in control as well as in experimental group, were underweight by having different grades of chronic energy deficiency. However, after the intervention of two months, there was slight decrease in the weight of control group by 0.64 per cent. Whereas, weight of subjects in the experimental group was increase significantly (p≤0.05) by 1.02 per cent and their BMI increase significantly (p≤0.05) toward the normal range. Thus, nutrifood intervention proved significant in improving health and nutritional status of lactating women.