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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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    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.
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    Development and Evaluation of Value added Bakery Products from Quality Protein Maize
    (Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur), 2016) Kumari, Pallavi; Singh, Usha
    Bakery products are popular in all over world and the production has risen by many folds due to their low cost, varied taste and textured profiles with attractive package and longer shelf-life to suit easy marketing. The present study was undertaken to develop and evaluate the value added bakery products from QPM. Accordingly, three different baked products namely ‘Bun’, ‘Sweet biscuit’ and ‘Salty biscuit’ were developed from QPM in combination with other ingredients used in bakery. The baked products were evaluated for acceptability, physico-chemical qualities, nutritional qualities, storability and unit cost. Acceptability testing of baked products were determined by the score given for sensory characteristics such as appearance, colour, flavour, taste, texture and overall acceptability. The score for overall acceptability ranged between 8.00-9.00 out of 9 points of hedonic rating scale. For ascertaining physico-chemical quality, weight, volume and density of baked products were determined. The weight, volume and density of bun were observed to be 45.05 ± 0.31 g, 70.00 cc and 0.74 ± 0.89 g/cc respectively. The proximate composition of bun was observed and found that the moisture, ash, fat, fibre, protein and carbohydrate were 21.46 ± 0.11, 1.45 ± 0.03, 8.03 ± 0.04, 0.81± 0.13, 1.98 ± 0.11 and 66.27 ± 0.20 per cent. The calcium and iron content of bun was 5.79 ± 0.25 and 0.98 ± 0.03mg/100 g. The sugar and starch content of bun was observed to be 2.80 ± 0.04 and 56.01 ± 2.67 per cent respectively. The calorific contribution of bun was 345.23 Kcal per 100g of bun. Since the moisture content was high in bun i.e. 21.46 per cent the fungal contamination was observed after three days of manufacturing. In case of quality evaluation of sweet biscuit, weight, volume and density of sweet biscuit were observed to be 14.24 ± 1.02 g, 10.00 cc, and 1.77 ± 0.13 g/cc. For evaluating nutritional quality of sweet biscuit data on proximate composition was recorded. The percentage of moisture, ash, fat, fibre, protein and carbohydrate was 3.80 ± 0.01, 1.35 ± 0.01, 5.26 ± 0.02, 0.90 ± 0.03, 2.39 ± 0.05 and 86.29 ± 0.08 respectively. Calcium content of the sweet biscuit was 5.01 ± 1.00 mg and the iron content was 1.02 ± 0.03 mg per 100g of product. The sugar and starch content of sweet biscuit were 4.63 ± 0.20 and 63.86 ± 0.20 per cent respectively. The total calorie provided by sweet biscuit was calculated to be 402.12 Kcal. The sweet biscuit was found to be safe from fungal colonies till four weeks after manufacturing. It may be due to low moisture content of the product. In QPM salty biscuit data on different parameters of physico-chemical qualities were observed. The weight was found to be 14.05 ± 0.78 g whereas volume was 10.00 cc and the density was 1.75 ± 0.09 g/cc. The moisture content of salty biscuit was 1.95 ± 0.02 per cent and ash content was 1.37 ± 0.01 per cent. The fat content of product was 5.18 ± 0.02 per cent. The percentage of fibre, protein and carbohydrate was 0.92 ± 0.02, 2.29 ± 0.07 and 88.19 ± 0.07 respectively. The Calcium and iron content were 4.00 ± 1.00 and 0.98 ± 0.05 mg per 100 g. The sugar and starch content of salty biscuit were 2.71 ± 0.02 and 61.81 ± 0.54 per cent. The total calorie provided by sweet biscuit was calculated to be 468.91 Kcal per 100 g of product. The storability of the product was determined and observed that total plate count of fungi in salty biscuit was not detected even after four weeks due to its low moisture content. Price is a determining factor for the acceptance of any product. Hence the unit cost of baked products developed from QPM was calculated by expenditure on material and operational cost of the product. The cost of bun was Rs 5.00 whereas the cost of sweet biscuit was Rs 9.00 per 100 g. The cost of salty biscuit was Rs 8.00 per 100 g. All these products are cheap and affordable by the common people. Hence, it is recommended to popularize all these products among the consumers.
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    A comparative study of nutritional status of adolescent school students at Pusa block in Samastipur district.
    (Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur), 2015) Sandhvi, Swiny; Sinha, Mukul
    Adolescents are the building resources and the future citizen of the nation. A healthy educated adolescent of today will be active and intelligent citizen of tomorrow. In India, adolescent comprises a population of 236.5 million which is 19.6 percent of total population while in Bihar, it comprises 22.5 percent of total population of the state (Census 2011). Adolescence is a period of rapid growth, up to 45% of skeletal growth and 15 to 25% of adult height is achieved during adolescence. It is a period when a diet of good quality is essential in establishing healthy dietary intake behaviours to reduce adult morbidity and mortality. For this study, two government and two private schools were selected for the present study. Sixty students from each schools of class VIIIth and IXth were selected purposively. Thus total 120 adolescent were selected for the present investigation. General information and socio-economic status of the subjects were obtained through a detailed interview scheduled. Nutritional status of subjects were evaluated by anthropometric measurement, haemoglobin level, clinical examination and dietary intake. Measurement of height, weight, haemoglobin level and dietary pattern were done. Also the life style pattern and energy expenditure in different activities were examined. Dietary intake of all the subjects were calculated through 24-hours recall method. Based on general information out of total subjects, majority of the adolescent were of 14 years and 15 years age group and were non-vegetarian. The socio-economic status of private school adolescent were found better than that of the government school adolescent. The anthropometric measurements of the subjects showed that the physical growth of Private school adolescent were better than the Government school adolescent. The hemoglobin level of Private school subjects were found better than the government school subjects. Also the nutrient intake of Private school adolescent were better than the Government school adolescent. The Private school subjects were more participating in sports while the Government school subjects were more participating in domestic work. The consumption of snacks items and non-veg, was more for Private school adolescent. The Private school adolescent were also watching T.V and searching networking sites for longer time in comparison to the Government school adolescent. The energy expenditure in different physical activities of Government school adolescents were found more than that of the Private school adolescents. The observation of deficiency sign were found more in case of government school adolescent. A positive and significant correlationship were found between income of the family with height, weight and BMI of Government School adolescent. Energy and height of Government school adolescent and weight and BMI of Private school adolescent. With protein, iron and calcium intake the weight and BMI of Private School adolescent was significant while with Government school adolescent protein was significant with weight, fat with BMI and calcium with weight and BMI. The protein and iron intake was found significant with haemoglobin level of Government school adolescent. The income of family was found significant with protein, fat and calcium in Government school subjects while in Private school subjects it was significant with protein intake. The difference between Government and Private school adolescent household activities were found significant. T-test was also computed to found the statistical difference between Government and Private school subjects nutrient intake. The energy, protein, iron and calcium intake differences between Government and Private school subjects were found statistically non-significant while the fat intake was found statistically significant and positive. The Government school adolescent were consuming less fat than the Private school adolescent. This may due to the reason that the Private school adolescent children were consuming more snacks and junk foods and oily foods and do sedentary works than the Government school children. Also their duration of watching T.V is more compared to Government school adolescent and hence consuming more snacks during this period. T-test was also computed for the energy expenditure of Government and Private school adolescents. The difference was found positive and significant. The Government school adolescent were expending more energy than the Private school adolescent. This may be due to the reason that Private school adolescent were doing more sedentary work than the Government school adolescent children. The Private school adolescent were giving more time in watching T.V. , using networking sites and in their study while Government school adolescent were giving more time in physical activities and domestic work. It can be concluded that the nutritional status of Government and Private School adolescents are more or less similar. The parents are more conscious for their child health and hence the physical and mental growths of adolescents are good.