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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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    Training need of fish growers : A study of Darbhanga district’
    (Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur), 2017) Kumar, Nirala; Prakash, Satya
    Fisheries occupy a prominent place in the economy of the world as the fish is one of foods of vast majority of people. Fish not only provides proteins but also contains fat, inorganic substances and vitamins. Fish protein is easily digestible and it contains considerable proportion of soluble proteins. It is more valuable for human especially for a population whose staple food is rice. Besides, fisheries help in generating employment and revenue and raising nutritional level. Fish is found abundantly in all natural waters. It is valuable source of food and has been used by man from antiquity. India stands second rank in global fish production. India registered an increase of 92.8% aquaculture and 15.1% in marine catches during 2011-12. The share of India's production from aquaculture is 6.3% of the world. Total fish production during 2013-14 is at 9.51 million metric tonnes. India is also became a major supplier of fish in the world. The annual fish production of Bihar 4.79 lakh tonnes during 2014-15.but annual demand is 5.88 lakh tonnes. Annual demand of fish seed in Bihar 760 million. The state has 121 government fish seed farm, 02 government hatcheries and 83 private hatcheries. The present productivity of fish could be increased considerably if the available technology is effectively transferred to the farmers. Our training programmes need to focus more on transferring of new technology from the confines of laboratories and research institute to the farmers and make then result oriented. Its profitability needs to be enhanced further, but still profitability of fish growing is based with many constraints faced by fish growers due to production and marketing. So, therefore, the fish growers need to be properly trained in the latest improved cultivation practices for realizing more productivity and production of fish. Keeping all these aspects in view, the proposed study has been undertaken with following specific objectives. 1. To assess the Socio-Economic and demographical Profile of Fish Growers. 2. To measure the level of knowledge of fish growers. 3. To ascertain the extent of training needs of fish growers. 4. To study the constraints faced by fish growers. The study was conducted in Darbhanga district in Bihar state. As this district is pre-dominantly fish growing district of the state. There is lot of ponds, rivers and other reservoirs is source of fish production and many fishing community involved in production and marketing to secure own livelihood . The district needs a support of technological back stopping for increasing its productivity. For this reason Darbhanga district was selected as a locale of research. There are 18 blocks in Darbhanga district. Out of which two blocks Namely Keoti and Jale was purposively selected. 30 respondents was selected randomly from each block. Thus, total no. of respondents was 60 constitute a sample size for the study purpose. This study concluded that maximum per cent of fish growers were belonged to middle age group, extremely backward caste group, (Fisheries + Agriculture) occupation categories, high school education , marginal land holding group (up to 1 ha) and had below 0.5 ha pond area under fish cultivation. Likewise majority of the fish growers had medium entrepreneurial orientation, medium level of annual income and maximum no. of farmers had member of no any organization in social participation group, regularly used TV as sources of information and majority of fish growers had no any committee in membership of organization group. The result also showed that majority of the respondents belongs to medium knowledge level about the improved fish production technology. It is also concluded that a majority of the respondents had came under medium needed training category. The major area in which fish growers needed more consideration were disease management, selection of quality seed and species & stocking density and feed & fertilizer management. It can be observed that the disease management, has got the first rank and top most required need for the training while harvesting and marketing of fish has got the 13th rank in training need. Further it observed that the “non availability of quality fish seeds’’ and "lack of natural feed in pond" has got the first & second rank respectively while “theft and pilferages’’ has got last rank in constraints perceived by fish growers.