But this new suucess story has came from Agriculture sector of Bihar.Bihar is agriculturally as important as of states like Punjab and Haryana as its in Rank 10 states for many vegetable production. Bihar also has very old agriculture university named Rajendra Agriculture University , Pusa but due the earthquake the main building was demolished . Central government created a reserch center in Delhi with the same name Pusa. That is the IARI pusa.
In 2010 it was bifurcated into RAU Pusa and BAU , Sabour Bhagalpur.This bold move was taken in the tenure of Visionary ex cheifminister of Bihar Nitish Kumar.Bihar Agricultural University is an autonomous institute under Bihar state government established in 2010 under Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) situated at Sabour, Bhagalpur district of Bihar. Historically, Bihar State is endowed with soil and water resources as well as climatic amplitudes having vast potential of agricultural production of varied nature. The university's area of operation is 25 districts of Bihar. Many people criticized him on that time but the great research work came out in only a short span of four years.
Bihar Agriculture University has developed a seedless mangoes variety. After Seedless grapes here come Seedless Mangoes.
"We have developed a seedless mango variety from hybrids of mango varieties Ratna and Alphonso," V.B. Patel,chairman of the horticulture department at the Bihar Agriculture University(BAU) at Sabour in Bhagalpur district,.
Trials of the new variety, named Sindhu, are under way at different locations in the country but the result of the one at BAU suggests it could be suitable for both integrated horticulture and kitchen gardening.
"We are happy and enthusiastic as well as confident and hopeful of improving the seedless mango variety," Patel said.
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