down to even two to three years in some places. This has resulted in soil degradation‚ fall in yield‚ lower returns‚ and reduction in green cover. It is this change in traditional practice‚ arising out of changing conditions‚ that has given jhum agriculture a bad name. Separately‚ forests are being exploited for timber and hills are being flattened for soil and stones. Often‚ this denuding of the forest too is blamed upon jhum cultivation. The state government has come out with various schemes to provide
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The global recession has led to layoffs. Layoffs will be effecting the foreigners working in different countries. The first to be fired will be the foreigners working in a country because every country would not want to keep their citizens jobless and employ a foreigner. the property and the construction business has fallen very low nearly 80%. There are no new projects coming up and some of the existing projects are being cancelled. Microsoft was asked to fire the foreign employees
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Developing Horticulture sector in India The horticulture sector encompasses a wide range of crops e.g.‚ fruit crops‚ vegetable crops‚ potato and tuber crops‚ ornamental crops‚ medicinal and aromatic crops‚ spices and plantation crops. India‚ with its wide variability of climate and soil‚ is highly favourable for growing a large number of horticultural crops. It is the fastest growing sector within agriculture. It contributes in poverty alleviation‚ nutritional security and have ample scope for farmers
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opinion on the economy during both the Great Depression and the Great Recession of 2008 (Bartlett‚ 2009). Although these pessimistic voices of disbelief in the current system had a certain gravity surrounding them‚ the men and women in charge of making economic decisions worked hard to ensure the economy would recover. The questions that arise are‚ how exactly was this recovery made? What has humankind learned from The Great Recession? Were the central bank expansionary monetary policies enacted‚ truly
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FDI Policy in India FDI as defined in Dictionary of Economics (Graham Bannock et.al) is investment in a foreign country through the acquisition of a local company or the establishment there of an operation on a new (Greenfield) site. To put in simple words‚ FDI refers to capital inflows from abroad that is invested in or to enhance the production capacity of the economy. [9] Foreign Investment in India is governed by the FDI policy announced by t he Government of India and the provision
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INDUSTRIAL ANIMAL AGRICULTURE 1. Some definitions: What is ‘industrial animal agriculture’‚ and what are its properties? What are zoonoses? Industrial animal agriculture is a modern form of intensive farming that uses intensive production lines and is designed to produce the highest output at the lowest cost. Industrial farms use new technology which provides them with high mechanisation‚ speed in production and low labour requirements. The animals in industrial farms are kept usually indoors with
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Though US agriculture seemed strong‚ it did not share in the prosperity of the booming 1920s. U.S. farmers were overproducing food‚ and they had done so since The Great War. At that time‚ Herbert Hoover was the federal government’s food administrator. He pushed for a large increase in American agricultural production since European agricultural production was weak and Hoover wanted Americans to supply them with food. The wheat production in the US was growing considerably by the end of the war‚ before
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NATIONAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE ON AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVE IN CAMBODIA Preah Sihanouk‚ Farmer and Nature Net (FNN) held a 2 days and a half dialogue known as “NATIONAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT DIALOGUE ON AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE IN CAMBODIA” from 15-17 February‚ 2011 in Kampong Sila district‚ and funded by Canadian Co-operatives Association. There were 90 participants (17 women) whom includes16 cooperatives from Kampong Speu province‚ Kampong Chhnang‚ Takeo‚ Kampot‚ Prey Veng‚ Svay Rieng‚ Battambang
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Effects of Global warming Global warming or “greenhouse effect” is an average increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth’s surface‚ which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns. Global warming can occur from a variety of causes‚ both natural and human. In common usage‚ “global warming” often refers to the warming that can occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities. The atmosphere consists of several “greenhouse gases”‚
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tractors causes the soil to become impacted which in effect makes the soil become impacted which makes the soil more susceptible to erosion. Overcultivation erosion can be corrected by no-till agriculture . This is a technique that permits continuous cropping ‚ yet it minimizes soil erosion. No – till agriculture is when the field is sprayed with herbicide to kill weeds and then planting apparatus is pulled behind a tractor to accomplish several operations at once . This method prevents the soil from
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