CORPORATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION RESEARCH UNIT Date : 2nd Quarter‚ 2009 From : Agriculture Desk Subject : Boosting Agricultural Productivity in Nigeria. Introduction: Agricultural sector was the mainstay of the Nigerian economy before independence‚ 75% of the Nigerian workforce was engaged in agriculture and immediately after it‚ until the oil boom of the 1970s. In the 1970s‚ agriculture provided the needed food for the population as well as serving as a major foreign exchange earner
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The article Are Food Subsidies Making Our Kids Fat? Tensions Between the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act and the Farm Bill and its author Melissa Mortazavi (2011) set out to "examines the strengths and weaknesses of the most recent reform of federal attempts to address childhood obesity and children’s nutrition: The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA).(pg. 1703). In her article she sets the time line of the governments involvement of nutrition as early as the times post WW II. She argues that
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Julian Diaz Eco 212 Tax breaks Big Business Subsidies Across the nation corporations have realized that they hold the fundamental building block to the growth of their revenues‚ and economic growth of small economies. Claiming that merely their presence are the key to fixing local economies. Politicians are willing to funnel‚ in some cases‚ millions of dollars from taxpayers pockets and into the wallets of corporations to set up shop in their town. Corporations with capital and willingness
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(MES‚ 2009‚ BBS). In the current fiscal year (FY 2009-10)‚ Bangladesh earned US$ 687.53 million by exporting agricultural products which is 4.24 percent of total export earnings (US$16‚204.65 million). In addition to the exports of main agricultural commodities such as‚ raw jute‚ jute goods‚ tea‚ frozen foods‚ the Government has taken steps to increase exports of non-traditional agricultural commodities. Within the broad agriculture sector in FY 2009-10‚ the contribution of agriculture and forestry
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Major Problems of Agricultural Export in India India is one of the leading producers of certain agricultural commodities. For instance‚ India is the largest producer of milk‚ cashew nuts‚ coconuts‚ tea‚ the second largest producer of wheat‚ vegetables‚ sugar and fish and the third largest producer of tobacco and rice. It is understood that the developed countries which are interested in protecting their agriculture with various subsidies and trade barriers and they are anxious to push their farm
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Score: Section: 2 Activity Case: Agricultural Marketing Information Systems in Africa DISCUSSIONS: 1. Briefly discuss an agricultural marketing information system using figure 4.1 as a guide. Agricultural marketing information system in the information system used in gathering‚ analyzing and disseminating information about prices and other information relevant to farmers‚ animal rearers‚ traders‚ processors and others involved in handling agricultural products. Market information systems
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A study on agricultural regionalization ‚ credit allocation and urban rural disparity in Assam And Kerela. ABSTRACT This report deals with the three aspects ‚namely ‚ the agricultural regionalization ‚credit allocation mechanism and the rural-urban disparities within the two states of assam and kerela. Both the states are predominantly agrarian with almost similar rainfall patterns and topography .Being agrarian in nature agricultural regionalization as well as the credit allocation mechanism
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Subsidies can be advantageous and disadvantageous‚ but it mainly depends on the person you’re promising a subsidy to. Subsidies for the rich tend to be a good thing‚ since if they’re rich‚ they’re most likely living in an MEDC‚ meaning the government will pay them a good amount of money for their products‚ because that’s what the producers from the MEDC’s expect‚ unlike the LEDC’s. The people from MEDC’s can afford to rebel against the government‚ by refusing to sell them any products‚ unless
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Ref: http://www.archive.india.gov.in/citizen/agriculture/index.php?id=1 Schemes of Cooperative Agricultural Banks 1. National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development or NABARD (External website that opens in a new window) - is responsible for refinance disbursement to commercial banks‚ State cooperative banks‚ State cooperatives‚ rural development banks‚ Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) and other eligible financial institutions. It also sanctions money through its Rural Infrastructure Development
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Acknowledgement The researcher would like to thank the subject teacher for the time spent In explaining every step of this project‚ and also to the students who helped a lot. Finally to the parents of Aranaputa valley who contributed in making this project a successful one. INTRODUCTION This project is base on the cultivation of Boulanger (Solanum melongena)
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