its contribution to GNP falls short of expectations. Hence‚ as with other developing countries‚ the agriculture sector in Bangladesh can be classified as predominantly being ‘traditional’. This implies that it is mainly comprised of small households that suffer from technological stagnation‚ unskilled labor‚ and supply chain and market linkage problems. In spite of this‚ a modern agriculture sector does exists which enjoys substantial economies of scale. It is a well established fact that with
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KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT NON-FARM ACTIVITIES AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN RURAL GHANA: A CASE STUDY OF ASSIN-SOUTH DISTRICT BY CALEB NAT WOOD 4599110 CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY 1.0 INTRODUCTION Poverty is the condition of having insufficient
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Agricultural production and food security Technologies New varieties of wheat and other grains were instrumental to the green revolution. The Green Revolution spread technologies that had already existed before‚ but had not been widely used outside industrialized nations. These technologies included modern irrigation projects‚ pesticides‚ synthetic nitrogen fertilizer and improved crop varieties developed through the conventional‚ science-based methods available at the time. The novel technological
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National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is an apex development bank in India based in Mumbai‚ Maharashtra.[3] It has been accredited with "matters concerning policy‚ planning and operations in the field of credit for agriculture and other economic activities in rural areas in India". History NABARD was established on the recommendations of Shivaraman Committee‚ by an act of Parliament on 12 July 1982 to implement the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Act
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China in Agriculture sector Agriculture Indian Economy: Agriculture is the back bone of Indian Economy.Though agricultural activities employ 52% of the total work force yet it contributes only 17.5% to the total GDP. Mostly‚ agriculture is carried out using traditional methods and farmers are dependent on heavily on monsoons. Green revolution and white revolution has given a boost to this sector but it is yet embrace technology on a large scale. Indian Economy VS Agriculture: Agriculture
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According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO 2015)‚ an estimated 18 million acres 7.3 million surface of forest are lost each year the United States cannot continue to grow and develop without causing environmental damage because those in power has to learn to associate positive economic growth with a healthy environment‚ An estimated 13 million surface of forests were lost each year between 2000 and 2010 due to deforestation. In tropical rainforests particularly‚ deforestation
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daunting challenges for people of the State. With irrigation canals running dry‚ farms have shrivelled. The prime cash crop of sweet lime has been destroyed as the orchards have been parched. Several factors account for the languishing state of agriculture in Maharashtra – heavy monocropping in some areas‚ limited value addition to support agribusiness‚ a degrading resource base‚ excessive withdrawal of ground water and unfavourable market conditions. The drought proneness of the state is a critically
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According to the International Food Policy Research Institute‚ the harsh reality is that the world needs to produce more food with fewer resources. In terms of the amount of energy currently being used by agriculture‚ there needs to be a balance of conserving energy while recognizing that in order to feed the growing population a great amount of energy will need to be utilized. The general public‚ intensely depends on the least difficult‚ yet the best approach to deliver sustenance for the greatest
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World Research Journal of Tropical Agriculture ISSN: 2322-0627 & E-ISSN: 2322-0635 || Volume: 1 Issue: 2‚ 2013: 27-30 || Available online at http://www.bioinfopublication.org/jouarchive.php?opt=&jouid=BPJ0000179 FARMERS’ CREDIT STOCK DETERMINANTS FROM COMMERCIAL BANKS AND ITS EFFECTS ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN NIGERIA UDENSI A.I.1‚ ANYIRO C.O.2*‚ OREBIYI J.S.1‚ EZE C.C.1‚ OHAJIANYA D.O.1 AND EZEH C.I.2 1Department of Agricultural Economics‚ Federal University of Technology‚ Owerri‚ Nigeria.
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livelihood in the rural areas. Agriculture consists of three sub-sectors: subsistence smallholder farming‚ a commercial sub-sector‚ and large plantations (Central Bank of Solomon Islands‚ 2006‚ Annual Report 2005). On the other hand‚ the climate of the Solomon Islands is changing and people are now experiencing increased in intensity or severity of extreme events like cyclones‚ storm surges‚ floods and droughts. These extreme events are causing substantial damage to agriculture and associated infrastructure
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