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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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Author: Iqubal, Md. Jawaid × End date: 2014 × Start date: 2014 × Thesis Type: M.Sc ×
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    Management of Mungbean Yellow Mosaic Virus of Urdbeanthrough Chemical and Host Plant Resistance.
    (Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur), 2014) Iqubal, Md. Jawaid; Sahni, Sangeeta
    Urdbean (Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper) is an important pulse crop grown worldwide. MYMV is an important disease of urdbean in India, because it causes huge losses in production of urdbean. The urdbean crop can be protected by seed treatment with imidacloprid 17.8 SL @ 5 ml/kg seed along with two foliar spray with imidacloprid 17.8 SL @ 0.03%, first spray given at just after appearance of disease and second spray after 20 day of first spray, which recorded 24.73 % disease reduction over control and brought out significant increase in the growth and yield parameters assessed resulted in maximum seed yield (2.68 g per plant). This treatment found to be cost effective and profitable among all other treatments tested and recorded highest net returns ( 14927.00/ha) with ICBR of 1:11.40. To combat this disease, eighty two genotypes were screened during summer 2013 and kharif 2013 against MYMV of urdbean. only one entry, NDU 12-1 was found to be disease free, nine genotypes (IPU 10-23, KUG 586, Mash - 338, NDU 12-300, PU 09-35, UH 07-06, Uttara, VBG 10-008, & VBN 6) found to be highly resistance and four genotypes (Kopergaon, RUG-44, VBG 09-005 and NDU 11-201) showed resistance consistently in both the seasons. However, out of 82 genotypes, only four genotypes i.e. VBN (BG) 7, IPU 2-43, KUG 586, & KUG 503 were found to be superior for seed yield as well as resistant to MYMV. Variation among 24 urdbean genotypes, showing disease free, highly resistant, resistant, moderately resistance and susceptible reaction in field screening was assessed by RAPD marker associated with MYMV resistance. All the 12 primers studied showed polymorphism. The range of polymorphism varied from 22.22 to 88.88%. A close genetic similarity was found in all the genotypes analyzed as shown by high values of similarity coefficient ranged from 0.72 to 0.96. Two major clusters were observed in the dendrogram constructed based on RAPD data. All the MYMV resistant genotypes based on our field analysis were grouped together in cluster I whereas, the susceptible genotypes were clustered together in the cluster II. Further, cluster I was divided into 2 sub clusters namely IA and IB. Cluster IA consisted of 10 genotypes viz.,VBN(BG)7, Naveen (Local resistance check) ), LRB332, KUG503, PU09-35, IPU10-23, UH08-05 and Uttara (Highly resistance genotype), NDU12-300 and NDU11-202 which were found to be free or highly resistance in one of season or both during screening. Cluster IB consisted of remaining 11 genotypes, in which two (IGKU02-1 and KU1106) were found to be moderately resistant in one season and rest 9 genotypes found to be resistant or highly resistant in one of the season. Cluster II includes TAU-1, TAU-4 and LBG623 (Local susceptible check) which were highly susceptible. The results indicated that there is close genetic similarity between the genotypes of urdbean based on the study.