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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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    GENETIC PARAMETER ASSESSMENT FOR YIELD AND SEED QUALITY ATTRIBUTES IN LINSEED UNDER IRRIGATED CONDITION (Linum usitatissimum L.)
    (RPCAU, Pusa, 2023) PRIYANSHU, PRIYA; Choudhary, Vinay Kumar
    The present investigation entitled “Genetic parameter assessment for yield and seed quality attributes in linseed under irrigated condition (Linum usitatissimum L.)”was conducted at experimental farm of department of Seed Science and Technology, Dholi, Muzaffarpur during Rabi 2022- 2023 in Randomized Block Design with 3 replications consisting of 25 genotypes of linseed including two checks (T-397 and Kota Alsi-6). Data were analyzed for 18 quantitative and seed quality parameters in linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) to obtain values for genetic variability, heritability and genetic advance, correlation of different quantitative characters with seed yield and among themselves and direct and indirect effects of various yield contributing traits towards seed yield. Analysis of variance demonstrated highly significant differences among the genotypes for all the traits under studied. Estimation of mean performance of all the genotypes revealed that the entries Shekhar, RLC-200 and LMS-2020-I-1 showed significantly earliness in days to 50% flowering, the genotypes Shekhar and LCK-2215 exhibited significantly earlier days to maturity than the best check. Further, estimates showed that the entries Shekhar, RLC-18117, LMS-2020-I-1 and BRLS-131 showed significant superiority over check for the traits no. of primary branches per plant, no. of capsules per plant, no. of seeds per capsules and seed yield per plant. The magnitude of GCV and PCV were found high for seed yield (kg/ha,), followed by seed yield per plant (g), no. capsules per plant and no. of primary branches per plant. Estimates of high heritability were observed for almost all the traits except few (no. of seeds per capsules and harvest index).High heritability coupled with the high genetic advance as percent of mean were observed for seed yield kg/ha., seed yield per plant, seedling root length, no. of capsules per plant, no. of primary branches per plant and plant height indicating preponderance of additive gene action and it will be more effective in genetic improvement through of these characters. Correlation study revealed that no. of primary branches per plant, no. of capsule per plant, no. of seeds per capsules, harvest index and seedling root length were significant and positively associated with seed yield per plant whereas days to 50% flowering and days to maturity showed also significant but negatively correlated with seed yield per plant. All these traits may be used for development of high yielding genotypes along with early flowering with early maturity.Path coefficient analysis showed that the traits like no. of primary branches per plant, no. of capsules per plant, no. of seeds per capsule, harvest index and seedling root length has significant and positive direct effect on seed yield per plant whereas days to 50% flowering and days to maturity also exhibited significant but exerted negative direct effect on seed yield per plant. Thus, choosing genotypes based on these characters will aid in enhancing the potential seed yield of linseed genotypes.