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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: DINESH, Mr. × End date: 2022 × Start date: 2021 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Variability and Cause Effect study in Pointed gourd (Trichosanthes dioica Roxb.)
    (DRPCAU, PUSA, 2022) DINESH, Mr.; Singh, S. P.
    The current research study entitled “Variability and Cause Effect study in Pointed gourd (Trichosanthes dioica Roxb.)” was conducted during the year 2020-21 at Vegetable Research Farm of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar. The experimental materials included twenty genotypes of Pointed gourd, along with a check variety Swarn Rekha. The experiment was carried out in RBD design, with 3 replications and spacing of 2m × 1m. The findings were recorded on fourteen quantitative traits like, number of vines/plant, vine length (cm), internodal length (cm), node at which first flower appeared, days to 1st flower initiation, number of fruits/plant, fruit length (cm), breadth of fruit (cm), weight of fruit (g), volume of fruit (ml), number of seeds/fruit, Seed: Pulp, fruit yield (q/ha) and T.S.S. (° Brix) and four qualitative traits, such as; fruit curvature, fruit shape, fruit skin colour pattern and fruit colour at marketable stage. The ANOVA indicated existence of highly significant variations among the genotypes for all the characters studied suggesting the existence of abundant extent of variability among the experimented material. The majority of the yield attributing traits including fruit yield exhibited high heritability combined with high GAM, inferring the preponderance of additive gene action which will facilitates in early generation selection on the basis of such traits. Three traits namely; number of vines/plant, vine length and number of fruits/plant have exhibited positive as well as significant association with fruit yield comprising it’s positive and moderate direct effect. Suggestions that crop improvement may be benefit from selection based on these parameters. The genotypes placed to Clusters I, II and IV showed higher intra-cluster distances respectively, indicating that these genotypes had the wider variability. Maximum inter-cluster distance was found in between Cluster II and Cluster V, followed by in between Cluster II and Cluster VI and in between Cluster I and Cluster VI. This suggests that the genotypes placed in these clusters used to have the best heterotic recombinants. The genotype present in Cluster V (PGS-5) may be use as donor to enhance yield and most of yield attributing traits. Materials under study as per contribution percentage towards diversity maximum for the traits Seed: Pulp and node at which first flower appeared.