Agriculture

Agriculture and Tractor. The tractor industry reported a strong 28. 3% growth in sales volumes during 2009-10, thereby ending the phase of cyclical correction that had pulled down tractor sales during the preceding two years (200709). Significantly, the revival of 2009-10 happened despite the drought-like conditions in many States during the kharif1 season dampening sentiments. […]

Why Agriculture Spread During the Neolithic Revolution. Around 10,000 years ago, a dramatic transformation occurred in parts of the Near East that forever affected the human experience. These were the economic and social changes from hunting and gathering subsistence strategies, which characterised over 99 per cent of our long tenure on Earth, to ones emphasising […]

The Relationships Between Human Health and Agriculture. Spedding (1988) defines agriculture as “an activity (of Man), carried out primarily to produce food and fibre (and fuel, as well as many other materials) by the deliberate and controlled use of (mainly terrestrial) plants and animals”1. Inherent in this definition is the importance of agriculture and its […]

Ushering in the Era of Digital Agriculture. Technological inputs in modern-day farming will not just increase farm efficiency, but will also yield a higher quality end product. The world population is constantly growing. That accounts for nearly 7.5 billion people who need to be fed at least three meals a day for a basic, healthy […]

Development Of Agriculture In Southwest Asia And East Asia. Southwest Asia is a region surrounded by seas and mountains and lies at the crossroads of Europe, Africa and Asia. Southwest Asia was the center of development of the earth’s civilizations. Towns emerged on the plains of Mesopotamia and highlands of Iran and Anatolia by 7000BC […]

Mutual Relationship Between Agriculture and Industrialization. The industrialization process is historically based on the expansion of the secondary sector in an economy dominated by primary activities. Thus, industrialization can be termed as the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial one. It is a […]

Food and Agriculture of Chile. 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 […]