Special Issues in Agriculture Special Issues in Agriculture Edited by Eliseo R. Ponce PHILIPPINE INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Surian sa mga Pag-aaral Pangkaunlaran ng Pilipinas BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH Copyright 2004 by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) Printed in the Philippines. All rights reserved. The views expressed in this book are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views
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Marketing Scenario of Rice in Bangladesh Md. Reza Ahmed Khan‚ Department of Agricultural Marketing Rice is the staple food of around 162.2 million people of Bangladesh and with the green revolution‚ subsequent liberalization policies‚ and introduction of HYV or MV rice has turned a dependent nation into almost self dependent in respect of food grain production. The country produces around 27-28 million tons of rice annually‚ against the requirement of around 30 million tons of rice. An insignificant
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CENTRAL GROUND WATER BOARD MINISTRY OF WATER RESOURCES GUIDE ON ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE TO GROUND WATER NEW DELHI MAY‚ 2000 GUIDE ON ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE TO GROUND WATER CONTENTS Page No. 1. INTRODUCTION 1-3 2. PLANNING OF ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE PROJECTS 3-9 3. ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE TECHNIQUES AND DESIGN 10 - 32 4. MONITORING‚ MECHANISM FOR ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE PROJECTS 33 - 36 5. CASE HISTORIES OF ARTIFICIAL RECHARGE IN INDIA 36 - 75 Annexure 1 --Format
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Currently‚ the water in California is being distributed by a series of tunnels running from the north to the south. These tunnels include the Central Valley Project (CVP)‚ a Federal Government managed project‚ and California’s own State Water Project (SWP). The two make up “vast interconnected hydraulic machines that push melted snow from dams in the Sierras‚ through the Delta‚ to massive pumps that fill the aqueducts traversing the state‚” to become what is essentially the southern region of the
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residences were built with individual cisterns and paved courtyards to capture rain water to augment water from city’s aqueducts. As early as the third millennium BC‚ farming communities in Baluchistan and Kutch impounded rain water and used it for irrigation dams. ARTIFICAL RECHARGE TO GROUND WATER : Artificial recharge to ground water is a process by which the ground water reservoir is augmented at a rate exceeding that obtaining under natural conditions or replenishment. Any man-made scheme
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grown on the slopes‚ pulses like horse gram‚ Lima beans (Pawate)‚ Bitter field beans‚ Long beans (Chavali and Mung) etc. grown on residual moisture. Oilseeds –Niger /Sesamum‚ area under Summer Ground nut‚ Jowar and Tur is likely to increase with irrigation; but the economy of the SKR is primarily due to adoption of the horticulture crops like mango‚ coconut‚ arecanut‚ cashew‚ kokum‚ jackfruit‚ Banana and Pineapple‚ Spices like clove‚ nutmeg and Black paper‚ Flowers like Jarbera and Marigold (Zendu)
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huge buildings‚ the Incas and Mayans had also created intricate road systems. Although they had no cars or anything of the sort‚ they were used to travel by foot. The Mayans and the Incas were both skilled in farming also. They both had constructed irrigation systems to ensure
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Gathering and Hunting Vs. Sedentary Living There are many events in the past that changed the course of history. The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution marked the transition between gathering and hunting to sedentary lifestyles. There were benefits to this change that have lasted until societies today. As well as benefits‚ there were also costs that effected people’s lives. The role of men and women shifted and things were slowly started changing to a world that is much like society today. Moving
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INTRODUCTION In 2011‚ President Benigno Aquino administration set a goal of achieving rice self-sufficiency by 2013 under the implementation of the National Rice Program. The country was declared 98% self- sufficient by the end of 2012. And just this fourth quarter of the year‚ Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala stated that full sufficiency in rice is considered to be attainable at the end of 2013. The NRP just one of the various government programs dealing with the reduction of poverty in the
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Commissioner for the Environment issued a report “Growing for Good”‚ it found that intensified farming was causing many environmental problems; including declining water quality in many areas‚ large amounts of eroding land and a growth in demand for irrigation water appeared to be unsustainable in some regions. This report outlines the above environmental effects and some solutions that have been introduced to lessen the effects of
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