Agriculture RESOURCES OF Pakistan INTRODUCTION Pakistan’s principal natural resources are arable land and water. About 25% of Pakistan’s total land area is under cultivation and is watered by one of the largest irrigation systems in the world. Pakistan irrigates three times more acres than Russia. Agriculture accounts for about 21.2% of GDP and employs about 43% of the labor force. In Pakistan‚ the most agricultural province is Punjab where wheat and cotton are the most grown. Some people also
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food production. Yields per unit area of all crops have grown since 1950. The 1970s saw a huge increase in India’s wheat production. This is known as the Green Revolution in the country. Reasons for the growth are the special emphasis placed on agriculture and steady improvements in irrigation‚ technology‚ application of modern agricultural practices and provision of agricultural credit and subsidies. Operation Flood was the name of a rural development programme started by the National Dairy Development
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Industry Overview From the birth of the nation‚ farming has played a crucial role in the U.S. economy. Initially European agricultural practices were adopted while settlers from the area began to populate the Americas. Agriculture in Colonial America was important to society because it was the primary livelihood for 90% of the population‚ and most of the farms were specifically used to create food for family use. As settlers moved west‚ they took advantage of the cooler climate to grow wheat
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In Lowell Massachusetts in the early 1800’s‚ most of the land had been used for farming and agriculture. However‚ with the advancement in industry‚ the town started to produce new goods‚ instead crops and plants. With the advancement of Industry Lowell started to operate textile plants. From the early 1800’s to the 1850’s the number of plants doubled‚ tripled‚ and quadrupled. This boom in industry caused Lowell to come up with new ways to produce items. These plants produced many different items
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things during the conversion of hunter-gathering to farming but the advancement made humans stronger. Even though the conversion of hunter-gatherer to agriculture made humans lose some things‚ humans also gained a lot. For example‚ hunter-gatherers only had a few tools to use while searching for their food. With the advancement to agriculture humans not only had a more efficient food supply but they also had more advanced tools to help them with work. Another example is that humans domesticated
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Topic: Climate change and Agriculture. In the countrie Solomon islands one of the major problems today is climate change activities. Climate change is the common tolarent background in which this account is looking at the changes that affects most aspect of the environment. How it is important of agricultural activities. The basic of greenhouse effect the gretly affected by changing of climate. However the potential impacts of climates change on agriculture onterms of food security. More over
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------------------------------------------------- Agriculture Agriculture‚ also called farming or husbandry‚ is the cultivation of animals‚ plants‚ fungi‚ and other life forms for food‚ fiber‚ biofuel and other products used to sustain human life. Agriculture in India has a significant history. Today‚ India ranks second worldwide in farm output. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry andfisheries accounted for 16.6% of the GDP in 2009‚ about 50% of the total workforce.[1] The economic contribution of agriculture to India’s GDP
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were supported mostly by government officials who wanted the benefits of agricultural technology as soon as possible and many were stressed by political leaders. However‚ the minority of the Romans had trouble accepting the benefits of tools in agriculture in society opposed to those who preferred agricultural technology. In the Han Dynasty in China‚ the Yellow River faced annual flooding. In Document 1‚ a Han government official was writing a letter to other local officials related to the floods
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ABSTRACT The development of agriculture since 1960 and its contribution to the growth of the economy has been discussed in the course of this study. It is however obvious from the analysis that though agriculture has contributed positively to economic growth‚ there are fundamental problems attributable largely to the characteristics of Nigerian agriculture. It is also evident that unfavourable environments as well as poor implementation of economic policies were detrimental to output increase in
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Philippine Agriculture over the Years: Performance‚ Policies and Pitfalls 1 Cielito F. Habito and Roehlano M. Briones 2 Introduction Although many still think of the Philippines as an agricultural economy‚ strictly speaking‚ it is not. Agriculture‚ fishery and forestry directly account for just one-fifth (20 percent) of the economy’s aggregate domestic output (GDP). Ever since the 1960s‚ the direct share of agriculture in the GDP had fallen below one-third‚ and by 1981‚ the sector’s share had decreased
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