herbicides‚ and fertilizers as well as new breeds of high yield crops were employed in the decades after the Second World War to greatly increase global food production. |[pic] | |Agriculture | |General | | | |
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Cambodia Climate Change Impacts and Vulnerability By Kalyan Keo‚ Programme Analyst Environment and Energy Unit‚ UNDP Cambodia Siem Reap 01 August 2012 Outline Cambodia • • • • Climate Change Science Climate Change Impacts Climate Change Vulnerability Climate Change Implications 2 Cambodia Weather Day Climate Average weather over a period of time ranging from months to thousand/millions of years. to day status and (short term) changes in the status of the atmosphere
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THE IMPACT of GLOBALIZATION on RURAL POOR in TURKEY: THE CASE of SOCIAL RISK MITIGATION PROJECT Assoc.Prof.Dr. Bulent GULCUBUK Ankara University Faculty of Agriculture Dept. of Agricultural Economics Diskapi/ANKARA/TURKEY gulcubuk@agri.ankara.edu.tr 1. INTRODUCTION Globalization has multi-facet impacts on the live of people. Turkey has faced the reality of globalization for many years but its adverse effect has been severely felt especially after the 1980s. Turkey‚ as other developing
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biggest problems in India‚ there are convinced evidences that show positive contribution of foreign aid to the improvement of the country. Therefore‚ the paper is aimed to demonstrate the efficiency of foreign assistance to India in the sphere of agriculture‚ education and medical support‚ by providing certain examples and some statistics. It is most appropriate to begin with the improvements in the sphere of education in the country. Association for India’s Development (2007) reported that with the
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most populous country in the world. Majority of its population live in villages & earn their livelihood through farming. Agriculture is the backbone of Indian Economy. The agriculture sector in India contributed 14.6% to the GDP in 2011-12 and is the third largest contributor after service (57.2%) and industrial (28.6%) sector. Though the contribution of the agriculture sector has decreasing by 32% since 1990‚ the importance of the sector has not declined. As per census 2012‚ it accounted for
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Agriculture‚ with its allied sectors‚ is unquestionably the largest livelihood provider in India‚ more so in the vast rural areas. It also contributes a significant figure to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Sustainable agriculture‚ in terms of food security‚ rural employment‚ and environmentally sustainable technologies such as soil conservation‚ sustainable natural resource management and biodiversity protection‚ are essential for holistic rural development. Indian agriculture and allied activities
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is on the decline. These could be attributed to lack of interest in the subject and poor perception that Agricultural Science has no future prospects for those who study it or that those who choose to further in it will end up as mere farmers. Agriculture is the mainstay of the Nigerian economy and its contribution to the nation and humanity can not be over emphasized. But the attitude of students towards studying it is not encouraging at all. There have been a large number of investigations or researches
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are needed to grow crops. The writers of this article have been testing the prospect of using seawater in agriculture. This seawater agriculture is when salt-tolerant crops are grown using ocean water for irrigation. Desert areas take up 43% of the surface of the earth and this new agriculture technique can be done in deserts. Hugo Boyko and Elisabeth Boyko first used seawater agriculture after World War II. Many different crops have been tested such as barley and the date palm. The writers
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Assessment of Agriculture Credit at PNB Introduction Agriculture plays a crucial role in the development of the Indian economy. It accounts for about 15.7 per cent of GDP and 52.1 per cent of the total workforce of the population is dependent on the sector‚ and despite a steady decline of its share in the GDP‚ is still the largest economic sector and a significant piece of the overall socio-economic development of India. The importance of farm credit as a critical input to agriculture is reinforced
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Farming and agriculture have always played a large role in American history and society. From the time the first settlers arrived in the New World from Europe‚ families and communities have relied on farms both big and small. Up until the 1930’s‚ there were few changes in the agriculture industry‚ but following the Great Depression and World War II‚ there was an explosion in farming technology‚ productivity‚ and the amount of federal government intervention. These changes led to a revolution in
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