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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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    KNOWLEDGE AND ADOPTION LEVEL OF INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT (IPM) PRACTICES AMONG HYBRID TOMATOES CULTIVATORS IN KOLAR DISTRICT OF KARNATAKA
    (DRPCAU, Pusa, 2020) K.N, Sunil Kumar; Lal, S.P.
    The research has developed various IPM practices to minimize the problems. Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is one of the most popular vegetable crops produced worldwide for consumption. The present study entitled “Knowledge and Adoption level of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices among hybrid Tomatoes cultivators in Kolar District of Karnataka” was framed. The study was conducted in the Kolar District of Karnataka during the year 2019-20. In 2016-17, Kolar was ranked 1st in all the district of tomato production, both in terms of area (8.51 thousand hectares) and production (481.45 thousand metric tonnes) in Karnataka. A total of 120 respondents were randomly selected for the final study. The data were collected by Observation, and Personal interview method and with the help of a structured interview schedule prepared for the study. Suitable statistical tools like frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, regression, and a multinomial logistic model were applied to get meaningful results. For developing the Knowledge test Difficulty index, Discrimination index, and point-biserial correlation (p-value) were calculated. The study revealed that most of the respondents belonged to the middle age group. The most substantial parts of the respondents were having a medium level of farming experience, family education status, social participation, landholding, extension contact, and mass media exposure. Out of 41 statements, 29 statements were selected based on the item difficulty index, discriminatory indices, and point biserial correlation. For constructing a knowledge test, 36 respondents were selected from the non-sampling area. For computing reliability test for 29 statements, it was administered to 30 respondents from the non-sampling area. The study revealed that the coefficient of correlation between form (odd and even items) and spearman brown coefficient for both equal and unequal length is 0.935 and the Guttman split-half coefficient is 0.934 among this 3-reliability triangulation Cronbach's alpha is excellent at 0.971. Lynn (1986) suggested that six or more experts are optimum to provide a rating for item content validity index (I-CVI) & Scale-Content validity index (S-CVI). For the 29 itemed KT Scale-Content validity index (S-CVI) was found to be 0.89. The study revealed that the majority (69.17%) of the respondents having medium knowledge level of IPM. There was a significant increase in the knowledge level of hybrid tomato cultivators with significant "F-Value" of 20.018 at a 1% level. In the study area, regression analysis between knowledge level of hybrid tomato cultivators, variables like age which was negatively significant at 1% level, variables like year of schooling & cosmopolitness of farmers were positively significant at 1% level, occupation significant at 5% level, tomato farming annual family income & extension contact significant at 10% level, social participation & mass media exposure were not significantly associated with the knowledge level of tomato growers. 'Multinomial logistic model' for adoption revealed that unit increase in 'extension contact' variable can increase the odds of non-adoption (the reference category) farmers to partial adoption by 83% (odds ratio [OR] 1.830, 95% CI) and full adoption by 124.60% i.e. (odds ratio [OR] 2.246, 95% CI) at 5% level of significant respectively; in a two tail test with nagelkerke pseudo R-square values of 0.609. So, it is essential to provide farmers with knowledge-oriented IPM training and also to reinforce practices where farmers need knowledge and skills which, in turn, can encourage the adoption of IPM practices through extension contact. The research concluded that if one wants non-adoption to escalate to ‘partial adoption and full adoption’ then variables viz., year of schooling, social participation, extension contact, and cosmopolitness must be given due consideration.