of horticultural crops. It is the fastest growing sector within agriculture. It contributes in poverty alleviation‚ nutritional security and have ample scope for farmers to increase their income and helpful in sustaining large number of agro-based industries which generate huge employment opportunities. Presently horticulture contributes 28 per cent of agricultural GDP. The national goal of achieving 4.0 per cent growth in agriculture can be achieved through major contribution from horticulture growth
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Analyze the ways in which technology‚ government policy‚ and economic conditions changed American agriculture in the period of 1865-1900. in your answer‚ evaluate farmers’ response. The period of 1865-1900 was one of the most crucial times in American history. It was a time period‚ in which America was mending‚ repairing‚ improving‚ reshaping‚ and reconstructing its society‚ economy‚ culture‚ and policies. Basically it was changing everything it stood for. This continual change can be seen in the
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In Homer’s Iliad‚ the human condition of life and death are being depicted‚ while we see how people lived their life in Greek culture. In Book 18‚ the great warrior Akhilleus looses his good friend Patroklos in the midst of battle‚ and with him he had Akilleus’ shield. Akhilleus’ mother goes to get another shield for her son from the great G/D‚ Hephaestus‚ and the Greek icon was born. The shield is made out of‚ “ durable fine bronze and tin… with silver and… honorable gold‚” while it depicts incredible
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Agriculture provides the basis of subsistence for the population by production of food and raw materials. Traditionally‚ the inhabitants of each country or region depended on the bread-basket filled by the farmers‚ for ex; everybody depended on agriculture and was interested in its outcome. In recent times‚ regional and international trade have reduced the dependence on home agriculture‚ and the quantity of available food is less a function of the harvest than of the political decision on the amount
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MODERN AGRICULTURE MAY NOT NECESSARILY BE THE BEST OPTION FOR TRADITIONALIST‚ SMALL-SCALE CARIBBEAN FARMERS In today’s world‚ where everyone is striving towards modernisation of the highest form in all aspects of life‚ there seems to be less and less space for traditional ways of doing anything anymore. It is no different in the agricultural sector. Agricultural geography may be seen as being rooted in outmoded concerns for “natural resources” and “basic human needs” in an economic era of “signs
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Remote Sensing Monitoring Operation System for Agriculture Shuo YANG Remote Sensing Application Center Ministry of Agriculture of China Beijing‚ China 100026 E-mail: yangshuo@agri.gov.cn Abstract: The research and application of remote sensing technology in agriculture started in late 1970s in China. Over past 30 years of development and on the basis of technical introduction‚ R&D‚ the remote sensing technology in the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture has become one of elementary means in monitoring
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_________________________________________________________________ Page 1 of 12 LOW EXPENDITURE AND LOW PRESSURE DRIP IRRIGATION TECHNIQUES IN IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE REGION PROJECT PROPOSAL PROJECT PROPOSAL LOW EXPENDITURE AND LOW PRESSURE DRIP IRRIGATION TECHNIQUES IN IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE REGION INTRODUCTION Agricultural water administration can help to tumbling starvation and scarcity in the emergent world. It reimburses both rural and urban poor. But most developing
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Agricultural Insurance in India Problems and Prospects Agriculture production and farm incomes in India are frequently affected by natural disasters such as droughts‚ floods‚ cyclones‚ storms‚ landslides and earthquakes. Susceptibility of agriculture to these disasters is compounded by the outbreak of epidemics and man-made disasters such as fire‚ sale of spurious seeds‚ fertilizers and pesticides‚ price crashes etc. All these events severely affect farmers through loss in production and farm
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The beginning of agriculture brought change and innovation around the world. It had various impacts‚ both good and bad that forced people to explore new areas and rethink their ways of life. These changes made by food production were necessary for the development of states. Through the emergence of agriculture‚ various characteristics arose coalescing small villages into powerful states. As the practice of food production grew‚ people became more sedentary. In order to continuously tend fields
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A PROJECT REPORT ON ROLE OF BIO FERTILIZERS IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE SUBMITTED TOWARDS PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE MBA-RURAL MANAGEMENT (2009-11) 3rd SEMESTER SUBMITTED TO AMITY SCHOOL OF RURAL MANAGEMENT SUBMITTED BY MAMTA GUPTA (A4011309005) UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF Dr. Ritesh Dwivedi Lecturer ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I have been able to complete this project with the blessings of my parents‚ teachers and friends who always supported me at every level. I thank to all
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