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Happening at BAU 17th to 23rd May 2015 Issue 119th

Dear friends, We are presenting before you the hundred ninteenth issue of the newsletter. This issue consists of notes on research, academic, extension and training program conducted & organized by the University with lead on performance of students of this University in ICAR-‐JRF examination. This newsletter is the medium to reflect your hard works in the field of research and other activities. Feel free to share any observation and the investigation carried by you for making Happening at BAU more popular among subscribers. Kindly send the inputs for the newsletter at least one day in advance to the date of issue. You may like to circulate it to other colleagues and provide their email ids as well so that they can get Happening at BAU in time. Wishing you all the best. -‐Team Happening

Focus of the Week

Rank- 3rd (Hort.) Rank- 7th (Hort.) Rank- 21st (Hort.)

Quality Teaching at BAU, Students outshined in ICAR-‐JRF Examination

Voluntary Blood donation camp at BAC, Sabour

Training for Field Investigator on “Minimizing Post Harvest Losses”

Breeding and Kidding Management of Goat in in summer season: Dr. Amit Kumar

Debate on Transgenic Brinjal

Visit of Zonal Monitoring Committee at NICRA village in Jehanabad

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Issue 119th 17th to 23rd May 2015

Quality Teaching at BAU, Students outshined in ICAR-‐JRF Examination

Students of this four and half year old University have proved their mettle in the ICAR, Junior Research Fellowship examination, 2015. Out of Seventy students appeared from this University, 25 students have secured their rank below 100 (AIR) and it has provided them opportunity to opt the premier agriculture university of their choice across the India and to admit in PG programme. The performance of students indicates the standard of quality education and suitable academic environment to pursue higher education and research. The Vice Chancellor, Bihar Agricultural University said that this was the beginning of academic improvement and he was looking forward to consistent increasing graph of result in the future. Miss Preeti Singh secured all India rank 3 (OBC-‐3) followed by Ms. Shashi Prakash 20th rank and Miss Nusrat Perveen 21st rank (OBC-‐11). In addition, Miss Khushboo Azam and Mr. Aditi Bharti secured 36th rank and 42nd (OBC-‐19) respectively and both are also likely to avail scholarship. Rest students have also qualified with good rank and they are eligible to get admission in different agricultural/horticulture Universities throughout the India. Miss Sneha Murmu secured all India 7th rank (Category rank-‐1) and Miss Shweta got 39th rank in Agricultural statistics discipline while Miss Shrija Sinha secured 40th rank in social science. Mr. Kumar Gourav secured 48th rank (OBC-‐16), Mr. Rishi Ranjan 106th rank (Category rank-‐ 09) and Mr. Hritik kishan 96th rank (Category rank 07) in soil science and Agricultural Chemistry discipline. The dedication and planned hard work of the teachers has made the students qualified in this ICAR-‐ JRF examination.

A voluntary blood donation camp was organized under the auspices of the National Service Scheme, BAC, Sabour on 23rd May 2015. The students and staff members of BAC, Sabour, donated total 55 units of blood. The blood donation camp was organized under the technical supervision of the Blood Bank of the Jawahar Lal Nehru Medical College and Hospital, Bhagalpur.

Voluntary Blood donation camp at BAC, Sabour


Issue 119th 17th to 23rd May 2015 Training for Field Investigator on Minimizing Post Harvest Losses

Estimates from Food and Agriculture Organization suggested that around 30 per cent of the total food produced worldwide is lost due to postharvest losses in the absence of appropriate technology. Bihar Agriculture University in collaboration with Rajendra Agricultural University and University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; is doing an innovative project in Bihar to reduce these losses by developing and planning to provide appropriate technologies for the farmers of Bihar. In this context, a team of trainer, researchers from the University of Illinois, USA and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad visited BAU, Sabour during 17th May to 21st May, 2015. With the consultation of the team, the Bihar Agriculture University recruited and trained 15 field researchers also, to work on a project aimed at reducing postharvest losses faced by farmers of Bihar. This project involves both components; research and its implementation to reduce postharvest losses leading to income security of the concerned farmers. The main goal of the project is to increase the income, farm productivity and wellbeing of the farmers in Bihar. The training was conducted at the Department of Agricultural Engineering, BAC, Sabour as a part of mentioned project. The intensive training included were, in-‐class instructions and field visits in different villages for on-‐the-‐job training. This project is poised at paving a sustainable way to enhance overall productivity and food availability to the people of Bihar.

Promotion of plastic mulching technology for vegetable production

KVK Jehanabad is promoting the use of plastic mulching in Okra cultivation at village Sakrorha under technology demonstration component of NICRA Project. Use of plastic

mulch film has proved beneficial among farmers due to moisture stress condition during summer season. Plastic film were laid on the soil after field preparation and punched at recommended distance to put seed into the holes. During summer season, ground water table goes down and on the other side vegetable cultivation needs frequent irrigation due to high temperature. Use of mulching technology saves required irrigation water, controlled weeds and increased irrigation interval also. Farmers are eager to adopt this technology under drought condition and benefit cost ratio of this technology also support it.

Training on value addition of Unripe Mango

KVK, Rohtas conducted a training programme on value addition of unripe mango and demonstrated "Mango squash and jam making" processs. Dr. Reeta Singh, SMS, Horticulture with the support of other scientist and staffs gave this training to 28 participants. Participants were also introduced with other equipment and machinery available for fruits and vegetables processing. This practice may fetch an additional income of Rs.600.00 per day, if adopted.


Issue 119th 17th to 23rd May 2015 Breeding and Kidding Management of Goat in in summer season: Dr. Amit Kumar

Goat farming is a choice farming now a day but needs special care and management. Goats need spacious shelters free from dampness and drafts. The farm should be well ventilated and goats should be served fresh and clean water preferably at shorter intervals. Although Goats are seasonal breeders but it has the ability to breed throughout the year if housed or grazed along with buck. Two factors, plane of nutrition and body condition are quiet important to induce breeding off the season. Healthy does of seven months or is able to breed and give healthy kids. It takes five months for a doe to give birth. Segregation of does from bucks is also crucial in the management of sound breeding performance. Does generally come into heat after 7 to 10 days with the introduction of the buck. This is called the "buck effect" and that should be parallel with feed resources and market demands. As the breeding season approaches, farmer should be cautious with the body condition of their breeding does. Goat should not be allowed to become too thin or too fat. Failure in reproduction, low twinning rates and low weaning rates result, if does are too thin. Overly fat does can suffer pregnancy toxemia, but fat does are rarely a problem. The breeding flock should be vaccinated against enterotoxaemia (over-‐eating disease) and tetanus. It is not always easy to detect pre-‐kidding signs in goats: however, mucous discharge is a sure sign that kidding is imminent. Following birth, the navel of newborn kids should be dipped in iodine. The ability of kids to resist diseases is greatly affected by the timing of colostrum intake and feeding. Colostrum contains a high content of immunoglobulins (antibodies), vitamin A, minerals, fat and other sources of energy. It is important to frequently observe weaned kids. Kids showing signs of coccidia infestation should be treated immediately; otherwise it may cause dehydration leading to death. Farmers may contact Dr. Amit Kumar, In-‐Charge, Goatry unit, BAC Farm, Sabour to obtain necessary information about different aspects of profitable goat farming. Access to veterinarian at regular basis will help in diagnosis of disease or infection.

Workshop on Kharif Abhiyaan 2015

Workshop on Kharif Abhiyaan, 2015 in Kishanganj district was organized jointly by Bihar Government and KVK on 22nd May at Krishi Bhawan, Khagra. Dr. K. M. Singh (PC, KVK, Kishanganj), Sri Anil Yadav (DAO), Sri Narendra Nath Mishra (Assistant Director Horticulture), Sri Sawan Prakash (DDM, NABARD) and Sri Nand Kishor Yadab (Assist. Soil Testing Officer) were present in the workshop. PC and the SMS of the KVK delivered technical input to the farmers, agriculture co-‐ordinator, BAOs and Extension personnel of the district on the programmes like SRI Paddy, Direct seeded rice by ZTT, Paddy transplanter, Cented rice cultivator, stress tolerant paddy variety, disease and pest of paddy, hybrid rice cultivation etc. Demonstration on paddy transplanter machine and direct seeding of paddy through ZTT are going to commence in large area in the district for the first time. This programme was widely disseminated in seven Block of the district by organizing training programmes at Block level during 27th May to 5th June.



Brinjal is a major vegetable crop in India but its yield is lower than its need because the fruit are very prone to shoot borer infestation. As per the report on Field trials on research-‐managed farms carried by Mayhco and the ICAR, 42% pesticide reduction and doubling of yield was possible by producing Bt Brinjal. The Bt brinjal is a transgenic brinjal created by inserting a crystal protein gene (Cry1Ac) from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis into the genome of various brinjal cultivars. These Brinjal plant are found to be resistance against lepidopteran insects like the Brinjal Fruit and Shoot Borer Leucinodes orbonalis and Fruit Borer Helicoverpa armigera. A debate programme was conducted on 16th May at the Dept. of Horticulture (Vegetable and Floriculture) on the topic “Bt-‐brinjal-‐ is it safe for public release in our country?” under the chairmanship of Dr. B.C. Saha, Dean, Post Graduate Students, BAU, Sabour. Faculty and students of the Department also participated in this discussion. Students who spoke in the in favor of Bt brinjal were of opinion that Bt-‐ brinjal should be released and GM crops should be encouraged in our India to enhance the production and to gain food security. If such crops are performing well in other countries like USA and Bangladesh without any ill report on humans’ health then why not in India? They added. While students who were of adverse opinion said “Bt-‐ which is a soil borne bacterium produced a toxin called delta endotoxin which enters the alkaline midgut of this lepidopteran larva and causes cell lysis, ultimately leading to the death of this larvae but what about its fate on human health? It hasn’t been tested so far. India is the center of origin and center of diversity for brinjal and so if Bt-‐brinjal is encouraged, local traditional cultivars might be overlooked and lost breaching the social ethics.

Root knot nematodes, Meloidogyne incognita infects Parval (Pointed gourd)

During investigation of the sample from the experimental field of pointed gourd at vegetable farm, BAC, Sabour by Dr R.B. Verma, Dr A. K. Maru and Dr S. K. Sharma, it was observed that some of the plants were found severally affected by root knot nematodes showing massive number of galls on roots of the infested plant. These samples were further processed in Nematology Laboratory, Department of Entomology, BAC, Sabour and proper identification at the species level of root knot nematode was done. The mount of perineal pattern were prepared and observed under upright binocular microscope. The species of the nematode was identified as Meloidogyne incognita, after critical examination of these perineal patterns which are oval to round shaped and other typical characters required for description such as; high squared dorsal arch, usually wavy striae, and absence of lateral field or weakly demarcated by forked striae.

Debate on Transgenic Brinjal


21st June has been declared as the International Yoga Day, which came after the call for the adoption of 21 June as International Day of Yoga by Mr. Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister, India during his address to UN General Assembly on 27th September, 2014. Under this pretext Principal, B.A.C. Sabour, Officer Incharge, 23rd Bihar Bn. N.C.C. unit B.A.C. Sabour took initiative to train the NCC cadets and to motivate them towards Yoga to maintain physical and mental fitness. Eight days long Yoga camp was conducted at seed processing unit of BAC, Sabour during 11-‐18 May 2015 in the morning. During this camp

a specially designed yoga package was provided among students and accordingly the Yoga Teacher taught Yoga. Yoga is an ancient tradition of India. It embodies unity of mind and body; thought and action; restraint and fulfillment; harmony between man and nature; a holistic approach to health and well-‐being. It is not about exercise but to discover the sense of oneness with you, the world and the nature. It can help us to deal with climate change by changing our lifestyle and creating consciousness.

Visit of Zonal Monitoring Committee at NICRA village in Jehanabad

Zonal Monitoring Committee comprising Chairman, Dr. H. S. Sen, Former Director CRIJAF (ICAR), Dr. K. Sreenivas Reddy from CRIDA, Hyderabad, Dr. A. Upadhyaya as nominee DDG (NRM) from ICAR-‐RCER, Patna, Dr. F.H. Rahman Member secretary and nodal officer NICRA, ZPD-‐II, Kolkata, Dr. Ajay Kumar from ARI, Patna monitored the various climate resilient activities demonstrated under NICRA since its inception and finalization of further action plan to be carried out by the KVK in view of climate change on 20th May. Sakrorha is an adopted village by KVK, Jehanabad under NICRA project. The committee appreciated the work done by the KVK team for NICRA village i.e. Technology dissemination in relation to natural resource management, crop production, live stock management institutional intervention and capacity building with special reference to adoption of climate resilience technologies by the farmers since this village has been facing drought like situation for 4-‐5 years. The committee noted down feedbacks villagers assembled and also interacted with the members of village climate risk management committee (VCRMC) formed under the project. During the field visit committee observed various interventions undertaken like water harvesting structure (Renovated 5 ponds & check dams), Azolla unit, plastic mulching in okra, straw mulching in bitter guard, nutrition garden, backyard poultry, Integrated Farming System based on poultry cum dairy and women enterprise (Tailoring, vermicompost unit), low cost bamboo based poultry unit, goatry unit, piggery unit etc.

Publication of the week

A. Khandelwal, S. Gupta , V.T. Gajbhiye (2015) Leaching behavior of kresoxim methyl and acid metabolite in normal and sludge amended Inceptisol soil, International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Biotechnology, 8(1):1-‐9. DOI: 10.5958/2230732X.2015.00001.7

A.K. Pradhan, K.S. Beura, R. Das, D. Padhan, G.C. Hazra, B. Mandal, N. De, V.N. Mishra, K.B. Polara, S. Sharma (2015) Evaluation of extractability of different extractants for zinc and copper in soils under long-‐term fertilization, Plant Soil and Environment, 61(5):227–233. DOI: 10.17221/971/2014-‐PSE

Yoga Camp at BAC Sabour to bring it into normal practice of life



Weekly Photo contest at BAU Winner: Brajesh Kumar TIwari, Editor, Media Centre, BAU, Sabour

Mango Variety Aamrpali at BAU, Sabour fruit orchard.

Weather forecast for Bihar during 24th-‐30th May 2015: Sunil Kumar

Zone I: There is no probability of rain in this week except on 24 May. Days may be dry and too hot. Wind with high speed may blow on 24th May in the region. Maximum and minimum temperature may be observed in the range of 36-‐370C and 23-‐24 0C respectively.

Zone II: There is possibility of rain and wind may blow with high speed on 24th May. Rest of the days may be too hot and dry. Maximum and minimum temperature may be observed in the range of 39-‐41 0 C and 25-‐26 0C respectively.

Zone III A: There is no possibility of rain during the period. Maximum and minimum temperature may be observed in the range of 39-‐42 0C and 24-‐250 C respectively in the region.

Zone III B: The days may be dry and too hot in this week. There is no chance of rain in this week. Maximum and minimum temperature may be observed in the range of 40-‐430C and 25-‐270 C respectively.

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