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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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    Performance of rice varieties at different moisture regimes under direct seeded condition
    (DRPCAU, Pusa, Samastipur, 2019) Adilakshmi, Guda; Kumar, Rajan
    To evaluate the present investigation “Performance of rice varieties at different moisture regimes under direct seeded condition” was carried out at Crop Research Centre of Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Bihar during Kharif (2018) in split plot design with three replications. The treatments in main plot consisted of four moisture regimes i.e., M1-AWD at 3 Days (Irrigation was applied at 3 days after disappearance of ponded water), M2-AWD at 5 Days (Irrigation was applied at 5 days after disappearance of ponded water), M3-Saturation level till physiological maturity (Irrigation was applied at zero soil moisture potential) and M4-10 % of moisture depletion (Irrigation was applied at 10 % moisture depletion of Field capacity) and in sub plot consisted of three varieties i.e., V1-Rajendra Neelam, V2-Abhishek and V3-Rajendra Saraswati. The soil of the experimental plot was sandy loam, alkaline in reaction (pH 8.42), low organic content (0.46%) and Free CaCo3 (26.7%) is high. The result showed that plant growth and yield attributes like plant height, number of tillers/m2, LAI, dry matter production (g/m2), crop growth rate (g/m2/day), number of panicles/m2, panicle length, number of grains/panicle, test weight, grain yield, straw yield, N, P and K uptake by crop, gross return, net return and B: C ratio were found to be maximum with the moisture regime of AWD at 3 Days (M1) which was significantly superior to M2 and M4 but was found statistically at par with M3. Harvest index, N, P and K content in grain and straw were not influenced significantly by moisture regimes. WUE and Water productivity was found maximum with M1 which was significantly superior to all other moisture regimes. Growth characters and yield attributing characters like plant height, number of tillers/m2, LAI, dry matter production (g/m2), crop growth rate (g/m2/day), number of panicles/m2, panicle length, number of grains/panicle, test weight, grain yield, straw yield, N, P and K uptake by crop, gross return, net return, B: C ratio,WUE and Water productivity were found to be maximum with variety Rajendra Neelam (V1) which was significantly superior to V2 and V3. Harvest index, N, P and K content in grain and straw were not influenced significantly by different varieties.