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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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    EVALUATION OF EARLY MATURING SUGARCANE GENOTYPES FOR YIELD AND QUALITY TRAITS
    (DRPCAU, PUSA, 2022) BASU, SAYANI; KAMAT, D.N.
    The current research “Evaluation of early maturing sugarcane genotypes for yield and quality traits”was conducted to analyse the variability among all the genotype of sugarcane in the Kanyanpur farm of DR.RPCAU,Pusa. The experiment has included seven genotypes and three check varieties. The observations were collected for fifteen characters i.e.Number of shoots at 240 days, Germination percentage at 45 days, Number of tillers at 120 days, NMC at harvest, Single cane weight, Cane yield at harvest, Stalk length at harvest, Stalk diameter at harvest, Brix % at harvest, Sucrose % at harvest, Purity % at harvest, CCS% at harvest, Fibre % at harvest, Pol % at harvest, CCS ton/ha.Significant high difference has been found among the genotypes for all the characters for Analysis of Variance.The character sucrose % at harvest exhibited high heritability and the character cane yield exhibited high genetic advance as per cent of mean. Many characters i.e. Germination % at 45 days, Number of tillers at 120 days, Number of shoots at 240 days, NMC at harvest, Single cane weight, Cane yield at harvest, Stalk length at harvest, Stalk diameter at harvest exhibited positive correlation with CCS ton/ha, thus selection based on these characters will result in improvement of sugar yield and characters like i.e.Germination % at 45 days, Number of tillers at 120 days, Number of shoots at 240 days, NMC at harvest, Single cane weight exhibited positive correlation with Cane yield, thus selection for this characters increase the cane yield.CCS % and Cane yield at harvest had highest positive direct effect with CCS ton/ha.All ten genotypes are clustered in four groups, where cluster II contain maximum number of genotypes.Maximum and minimum cluster distance were recorded between cluster II and IV and I and II respectively.Maximum intra cluster distance was observed between cluster I.Cluster II exhibited highest mean value for number of shoots at 240 days, single cane weight, stalk length at harvest, CCS % at harvest and cluster III exhibited highest mean value for brix % at harvest, sucrose % at harvest, fibre % at harvest and cluster IV exhibited highest mean value for Germination %, Number of tillers, NMC at harvest, Cane yield and Stalk diameter at harvest.