------------------------------------------------- Agriculture Agriculture‚ also called farming or husbandry‚ is the cultivation of animals‚ plants‚ fungi‚ and other life forms for food‚ fiber‚ biofuel and other products used to sustain human life. Agriculture in India has a significant history. Today‚ India ranks second worldwide in farm output. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry andfisheries accounted for 16.6% of the GDP in 2009‚ about 50% of the total workforce.[1] The economic contribution of agriculture to India’s GDP
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The role of agriculture in economic development has undergone an important evolution. In the past‚ agriculture was often viewed as the passive partner in the development process‚ however‚ it is now typically regarded as an active and co-equal partner with the industrial sector. This essay addresses the question of how the agriculture sector can contribute to sustainable economic development of developing countries with the case examples of Zambia. In the same work‚ the essay suggests what the government
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IMA © 2009‚ IMA India Research for Strategy Indian Agriculture Challenges and Prospects IMA India www.ima-india.com IMA © 2009‚ IMA India Research for Strategy Disclaimer This document has been prepared by International Market Assessment India Private Limited. It provides an analysis of the key challenges facing the agricultural sector in India and IMA’s assessment of the sector’s prospects in the years ahead. This report is not intended for decision making purposes.
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Title: Political Economy of Agriculture and Food Professor: Deborah Johnston To what extent are agricultural transformations and modernization still necessary for economic development in contemporary low-income countries? Illustrate your arguments with reference to concrete cases. Introduction: Recently‚ several new comers to the middle income countries category‚ namely in North Africa‚ have made it above the $1.25 poverty line without experiencing an increase in agriculture contribution to GDP or
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Front page Acknowledgement Chile: Food and Agriculture Republic of Chile is a country in South America occupying a long‚ narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west Chile is one of South America’s most stable and prosperous nations. It has been relatively free of the coups and arbitrary governments that have blighted the continent. The shape of Chile is a distinctive ribbon of land 4‚300 kilometres (2‚700 mi) long and on average 175 kilometres
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Agriculture Computers help in agriculture? It can’t sow seeds or harvest crops or irrigate fields. But it can definitely help the farmers and the agricultural scientist in various stages of farming. And why haven’t we used computers in agriculture till date? Just one reason‚ farmers are not comfortable with computers. And since there’s no market for such a technology‚ the industry never bothered to consider that field for making any software. Countries like USA and Australia use software
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Agriculture is the foundation from which civilization started from. If we did not have agriculture we would still be wandering around hunting small game and gathering anything edible that we might find. We would also have a very low population rate because we would not be able to stalk prey with a lot of people and we would have to kill more animals then there would be to survive. There is something good about not having agriculture. We would not have made so much pollution and the hole in the ozone
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Agricultural of Bangladesh: Bangladesh is primarily an agrarian economy. Agriculture is the single largest producing sector of economy since it comprises about 30% of the country ’s GDP and employing around 60% of the total labor force. Meeting the nation ’s food requirements remains the key-objective of the government and in recent years there has been substantial increase in grain production. However‚ due to calamities like flood‚ loss of food and cash crops is a recurring phenomenon which
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farm output including value addition (processing) and services to farm sector have expanded leading to proliferation of several independent business units. Agricultural development has been a precursor to economic development. With the growth of agriculture sector‚ each operation became specialized and had the potential for business. This has led to establishment of numerous firms that cater to various needs of the agribusiness sector. Thus‚ the gamut of agribusiness enlarged including few sub systems
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Role and impact of biotechnology in modern agriculture. Biotechnology offers prospects in addressing problems concerned with agricultural productivity and environmental safety. In order to cope up with the ever increasing population of the current world‚ biotechnological intervention to supplement conventional plant breeding efforts is indispensable. Some of the issues that can be addressed using biotechnological techniques are crop production of superior quality‚ mass production of uniform planting
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