Science ram_m profile image by ram_m 134 Followers TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN INDIAN AGRICULTURE FASAL FASAL ACCELERATED IRRIGATION BENEFIT PROGRAMS ACCELERATED IRRIGATION BENEFIT PROGRAMS animal drawn seed cum fertilizer drill animal drawn seed cum fertilizer drill KARAN SWISS KARAN SWISS One of the major challenges that independent India faced was how a traditional sector like agriculture could be modernized particularly amongst a group of people who were illiterate or semi-literate
Premium Agriculture Innovation
encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaingin Slash-and-burn is an agricultural technique which involves cutting and burning of forests or woodlands to create fields. It is subsistence agriculture that typically uses little technology or other tools. It is typically part of shifting cultivation agriculture‚ and of transhumance livestock herding.[1] Older English terms for slash-and-burn include assarting‚ swidden‚ and fire-fallow cultivation. Today the term "slash-and-burn" is mainly associated
Premium Agriculture Forest Amazon Rainforest
least 74 mph. These two natural disasters are called floods and hurricanes. In contrast‚ floods moving at 10mph and being a common natural disaster that can affect millions of people around the world. Next‚ hurricanes‚ a storm with a violent wind causing havoc all around the world moving at wind speeds of 74 mph‚ and in similarity‚ both two dangerous natural disasters formed with wind and rain‚ but which one is deadliest? To begin with‚ floods in contrast to hurricanes move at 10 mph with wind speeds
Premium Tropical cyclone Wind Storm
Agriculture is the artificial cultivation and processing of animals‚ plants‚ fungi and other life forms for food‚ fibers and other byproducts.[1] Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization‚ whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of much denser and more stratified societies. The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science. Agriculture is also observed in certain species of ant and termite.[2][3] The
Premium
Several facts are changing in today’s marketing communications. More companies adopt the new concept of integrated marketing communications (IMC) to convey a consistent message about their brand and products. Hence‚ IMC has played a powerful role and developed into a useful strategy for company to reach more customers and build good customer relationships. According to Herstein et al. (2008)‚ IMC is one of a successful strategy that coordinates and integrates all of marketing communication tools
Premium Marketing Advertising Graphic design
Bihar: Maternity huts set up for flood-hit | © UNICEF/India/2007 | Bihar Chief Minister Shri Nitish Kumar inspecting the maternity huts during his visit to the Baragawan Gachi flood relief camp in Kalyanpur block‚ Samastipur district. | Samastipur‚ Bihar‚ 30 August 2007: UNICEF and the Bihar government have come together with an innovative idea for providing medical care facilities to expecting mothers in the flood affected areas and set up maternity huts. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar
Premium Health care Medicine Childbirth
Why the Productivity Trends in Agriculture in very low? . Shiya Economics ..In spite of the significance of agriculture in the Indian economy‚ per capital productivity in agriculture is less in comparison to the productivity in other sectors of the economy and agricultural productivity of other countries of the world. Agricultural productivity has two aspects. Land productivity and labour productivity. The former implies the productivity of land per hectare or acre and the latter refers to the
Free Agriculture
The Year of the Flood is a complex yet captivating book. There are many things going on at once during the first 20 chapters that we read. I don’t think I have ever read a book that shifts narration as much as this book does. Just about every chapter is a different person’s narration than the previous chapter. Although this first confused me‚ I now think that it makes the book even more unique. Through a bit of research‚ I found that this is actually the second book in Atwood’s dystopian triology
Premium Abuse Bullying Human
FLOOD It was the worst rainy weather I had seen. The skies remained overcast as sheets of rain poured down without stopping. In the evenings‚ the rain was usually accompanied by blinding flashes of lightning and deafening peals of thunder. Most of the residents in my area remained confined indoors. Apart from people scurrying to and from work and school‚ there was little outdoor activity. The town where I live‚ Kuantan‚ faces the Pahang River. After three days of incessant rain‚ the swollen river
Premium Weather Flood Wind
The 2010-11 Queensland Floods had significant impact on Queensland with their massive economic cost and loss of life. The floods occurred following prolonged periods of heavy rainfall between December 2010 and January 2011. They resulted in much of the state being inundated with water and had a massive impact on many people. These impacts included the deaths of 30 people‚ 78% of the state being declared a disaster zone‚ and over $5 billion in reconstruction costs—the most expensive natural disaster
Premium Tropical cyclone Hurricane Katrina Water