Coromandel International (CIL) has taken the following initiative in the recent past specifically for the benefit of rural population particularly village farmers. The company has established “Mana Gromor” retail outlets in rural sectors which provide agri inputs to the farmers. Additionally the company also provides advisory services to the farmers through their in-house experts present in these retail stores. This includes right usage of pesticides‚ best cropping
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increased empowerment of rural farmers where e-choupals have been established. The e-choupal initiative directly links the rural farmers with the company for the procurement of agriculture and aquaculture products‚ such as soybeans‚ coffee‚ and prawns. Traditionally‚ these commodities were procured by such companies as ITC from mandis (major agricultural marketing centers in rural areas of India)‚ and a long chain of intermediaries was involved in buying the produce from farmers and moving it to the mandis
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AGRICULTURE OF BANGLADESH Agriculture is an important sector of the economy of Bangladesh and one of the main drivers of economic growth. In order to ensure food security‚ the present government is committed to achieve self sufficiency in food by 2013 through increased production. The contribution of this sector to GDP stood at 20.49 percent in FY 2008-09. According to the revised estimate of BBS‚ the overall contribution of the broad agriculture sector at constant price is 20.24 percent
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Adoption of CA technologies has been defined in several ways depending on the nature of the technology in question. In this study‚ adoption refers to the decision by a farmer to use a particular CA technology component‚ a definition similar to that used by Feder et al.‚ 1985. The extent of adoption is measured as the proportion of area the farmer commits to a particular technology. Other Research studies states that the decision to adopt a new or improved technology/practice can be regarded as an investment
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farming is not a new concept to Indian farmers. Before the Green Revolution‚ during which the chemical fertilisers were introduced‚ Indian farmers used to cultivate crops using natural resources like Farm Yard Manure (FYM)‚ leaves of various plant species‚ animal wastes‚ etc. With the advent of Green Revolution‚ High Yielding Varieties (HYVs) came into existence. In order to utilise the potentiality of the HYVs‚ the use of chemical fertilisers was popularised. Farmers who were habituated to use organic
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efficient. In fact‚ farmers were losing 60-70% of the potential value of their crop‚ with agricultural yields only a third to a quarter of global standards. Similarly‚ on the output side‚ middlemen clogged the supply chain‚ reducing profit margins for both farmers and buyers such as ITC. ITC recognized that to increase its profits and to help farmers improve their margins they need to iron out the flaws in the existing inefficient supply chain system. The e-Choupal project ensured that farmers were equipped
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A combination of worsened economic conditions‚ new technology and unfortunate government policy made the lives of farmers significantly more difficult in the second half of the nineteenth century. Increased global competition‚ the beginning of the national market‚ and increased domestic production caused the price of goods to drop dramatically. In the late 1800s people were encouraged to move west and start farms‚ and were given loans by banks and the government to do so. This led to a large increase
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agricultural sector in the 1990s can be characterized as fragmented with a fragile infrastructure. The mode of operation especially‚ soybean farming‚ has remained unchanged since their early ancestors. Along with unchanged practice‚ most of India’s farmers are illiterate and live in remote villages. The ITC’s e-Choupal tackles the challenges posed by Indian agriculture to identify how to improve the inefficient supply chain of agricultural goods. ITC is a multi divisional company and it had identified
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What are the effects of low production on farmers in the community of top hill St. Thomas? Objectives: To discover what are the factors that contribute to poor production. To discover effects of poor production on farmers in the community of top hill St.Thomas. To discover the solutions farmers use for poor production. Abstract To attain the information necessary for this research‚ some observation‚ and a personal interview was done with some farmers. In which they answered a series of questions
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normalization of individual farms. People could now own their own farm‚ as opposed to one person owning large amounts of land to farm on. Any adult that had not ever “taken arms against the U.S government” was eligible. This was crucial because immigrants‚ farmers that had no land of their own‚ single women and former slaves could apply. It was a was revolutionary idea; people could own their own land to increase agricultural production. The Homestead Act was put to an end with the enactment of the Federal
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