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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: Vegetable Science × Author: BIHARI, CHHAIL × End date: 2024 × Type: Thesis ×
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    EFFECT OF SULPHUR AND BORON ON SEED PRODUCTION OF VEGETABLE PEA (Pisum sativum L.) IN CALCAREOUS SOILS
    (DRPCAU, PUSA, 2021) BIHARI, CHHAIL; KUMAR, UDIT
    A field experiment entitled “Effect of sulphur and boron on seed production of vegetable pea (Pisum sativum L.) in calcareous soils” “was carried out at the experimental field of AICRP on Vegetable Crops, Department of Horticulture, PG College of Agriculture, “Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar during Rabi season (2020-21).”Experiment was conducted in Randomized Block Design with factorial fashion, comprising of five levels of sulphur (0, 10, 20, 30 and 40 Kg ha-1) and three levels of boron (0, 1 and 2 Kg ha-1) to study the effect on growth, pod yield and “seed yield of vegetable pea. Altogether, the experiment consisted of 15 treatments which were replicated thrice. Growth, pod yield and seed yield attributes were studied including economics.” The significant effects of treatments were observed for growth attributes, pod yield, seed yield and it’s attributes. The ultimate height of plant (58.86 cm) and “number of branches per plant” (4.60) were recorded maximum in treatment combination S4 B2 (40 kg S ha-1+ 2 kg B ha-1). Similar results were also recorded for pod yield related attributes as well as seed yield related attributes. Among the pod yield attributes, number of green pods plant-1 (23.93), pod length (9.72 cm), green pod yield plant-1 (44.20 g) and weight of 10 pods (75.05g) were recorded maximum with the treatment combination S4 B2 (40 kg S ha-1+ 2 kg B ha-1). “However, S4 B2 (40 kg S ha-1+ 2 kg B ha-1)” exhibited at par with S3B2 (30 kg S ha-1+ 2 kg B ha-1) for” some characters like “number of pod per plant, pod length” (9.60 cm) and weight of 10 pods (78.30 g). When it was concerned to seed yield and its attributes, number of seeds pod-1(9.26), number of seeded pods per plant (12.60), seed yield per hectare (16.73 q) and 100 seed weight (22.56g) were recorded maximum with the treatment combination S4 B2 (40 kg S ha-1+ 2 kg B ha-1). However, S4 B2 (40 kg S ha-1+ 2 kg B ha-1) exhibited to be at par with S3B2 (30 kg S ha-1+ 2 kg B ha-1)” for some characters like, number of seed per pod (9.26), number of seeded pod per plant (12.60), seed yield per ha. (16.73 q ha-1) and 100 seed weight (21.96 g). So far as the economics of the trial was concerned, the treatment combination S4 B2 (40 kg S ha-1+ 2kg B ha-1) gave the maximum net return (₹.1,88,316.00) as well as benefit cost ratio (3.50). “Thus, the present study suggested that treatment combination S4 B2 (40 kg S ha-1+ 2 kg B ha-1)” exhibited superiority over rest of the treatment combinations with respect to almost all the characters of vegetable pea.”