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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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    Comparative Assessment of Genetic Diversity in Aerobic Rice.
    (Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur), 2015) Chandra, Khushboo; Nilanjaya
    A study was conducted on 25 rice genotypes at Rain out Shelter (aerobic condition) and Rice Breeding section (normal condition), RAU, Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar during kharif 14 for “COMPARATIVE ASSESSSMENT OF GENETIC DIVERSITY IN AEROBIC RICE” and was laid out in Randomized Block Design with three replications based on variability, heritability (broad sense), genetic advance, character association, path analysis and genetic divergence for 15 morpho-physiological characters. Analysis of variance revealed highly significant variation among all the 25 genotypes of rice for all the 15 characters under aerobic and normal condition. The characters, namely 1000 grain weight, relative water content, maximum root length, flag leaf area, peroxidise activity in leaves and grain yield per plot had showed high heritability coupled with high genetic advance as per cent of mean under aerobic and normal conditions. Correlation studies indicated that at genotypic and phenotypic level for plant height, panicle length, spikelet per panicle, tillers per plant, 1000 grain weight, relative water content, maximum root length, flag leaf area, harvest index under aerobic condition, whereas, under normal condition, days to physiological maturity showed positive and significant association with grain yield per plant. Path analysis revealed that traits like days to fifty percent flowering, no. of spikelet per panicle, no. of tillers per plant and maximum root length had positive direct effect whereas, harvest index had both direct and indirect effect on grain yield per plot at genotypic level and at phenotypic level traits like days to fifty percent flowering had positive direct effect and days to physiological maturity, plant height, panicle length,1000 grain weight, relative water content, proline accumulation in leaves, peroxidase activity, no. of tillers per plant and maximum root length had positive indirect effect. No. of tillers per plant and 1000 grain weight had both direct and indirect effect on grain yield per plot at genotypic level and at phenotypic level traits like proline accumulation in leaves had positive direct effect but days to physiological maturity, plant height, panicle length,1000 grain weight, relative water content, peroxidase activity, no. of tillers per plant, maximum root length, no. of spikelet per panicle, flag leaf area and chlorophyll content had positive indirect effect on grain yield per plot under normal condition. On basis of inter cluster distances, cluster mean and mean performance, genotypes viz., RAU1417-2-1-5-7-7 and Vandana (Check) from cluster I &RAU1417-2-1-5-7-7 from cluster VI selected for earliness were identified as promising parents for their further utilization in hybridization programme under aerobic and normal condition. Under aerobic condition, the genotypes viz., RAU1417-2-1-5-7-7 exhibited superiority for proline accumulation in leaves. The genotypes viz., RAU1397-18-3-7-9-4-7from cluster III were selected for traits like panicle length, spikelets per panicle, tillers per plant, RWC in flag leaf, maximum root length, flag leaf area, chlorophyll content and grain yield per plot in normal condition.