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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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    Eco-friendly Management of Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris causing black rot of cauliflower
    (DRPCAU, PUSA, 2021) PATIDAR, RAHUL; Ranjan, Rajesh Kumar
    Black rot disease is a serious problem in the development of cauliflower, which is one of India's most popular winter vegetables. The pathogen for black rot disease was identified as Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris through morphological and biochemical characteristics. Colony characters development on NSA medium regards to morphological characters. Biochemical test such as gram staining, indole production, nitrate reduction, KOH string test, catalase test and utilization of different carbohydrates for acid production regard as biochemical characters. In vitro evaluation of 30 rhizobacteria against XCC in which 3 isolates found effective and developed inhibition zone of more than 10 mm. RAC 3 isolates developed maximum inhibition zone of 27.03 mm. Aqueous extract of Neem, Garlic, Bael, Datura and Tulsi were effective at 1:1 (w/v). Garlic extract shows maximum inhibition zone of 13 mm and 15.23 mm at 10% and 15% conc respectively, followed by Neem (11.60 mm and 14.40 mm) and Datura (11.20 mm and 13.83 mm). Beal extract shows inhibition zone of 11.83 mm only at 15% conc and Tulsi failed to produced inhibition zone at all three conc. Evaluation of antibacterial chemical indicates that 0.01% conc. of streptomycin sulphate + tetracycline gave maximum inhibition zone of 22.43 mm followed by streptomycin alone (20.44 mm) and chloramphenicol (18 mm) but at higher conc., chloramphenicol @ 0.02 % and 0.03% developed maximum inhibition zone of 25.89 mm and 27.33 mm respectively, followed by streptomycin sulphate + tetracycline (23.89 mm and 26.32 mm) and streptomycin alone (21.33 mm and 23.87mm).