Rural tank rejuvenation

Rural tank rejuvenation A tank is a low, earthen bund constructed across a shallow valley to hold the rainfall runoff from its catchment area. Tanks may be either isolated or in cascades. In a cascade, when the upper tank gets filled, the spill over the surplus weir is led into the tanks lower down, one … Read more

Copper Age :- Farming Culture, Settlements, Copper hoards, Ochre Coloured Pottery

Copper Age Chalcolithic age in India is the first Metal age. Metals like copper and its Alloy bronze are melted at low temperature. The important sites of this period are the Indus valley sites. The Chalcolithic culture of Central, Eastern and Southern regions of India show altogether different features. The Chalcolithic culture represents the farming … Read more

Agricultural Revolutions

Green Revolution in India A term coined to describe the emergence and diffusion of new seeds of Cereals. Norman-e-Borlaug is the Father of Green Revolution in the world, while Dr. M.S. Swami Nathan is known as the Father of Green Revolution in India. The new cereals were the product of research work and concentrated plant … Read more

Uttarakhand :Agriculture

Uttarakhand totally dependend on agriculture more than 4/5 of the working Population is directly engaged in agriculture.Doon valley ,nainital district,udham singh nagar and haridwar produce large quantities of food grains.it has immense potential for the development of INFRASTRUCTURE and promoting sustainable Farming practices. Agriculture in Uttarakhand is a diverse and complex sector. The state’s climate … Read more

Agriculture of Uttarakhand

  agriculture and Animal Husbandry or pastoralism have long been and still are the mainstay livelihoods and occupations of the human communities in the Himalayan state of Uttarkhand. Closely and symbiotically interlinked, both of them are deeply dependent on the neighbouring forests and ecosystem for sustenance and viability. Agriculture in 87% of hill Uttarakhand is … Read more

Major crops, holdings and cropping patterns, Social and physical environmental impact on production and distribution of crops in Madhya Pradesh

Major crops, holdings and Cropping patterns, Social and physical environmental impact on production and distribution of crops in Madhya Pradesh Major crops Kharif Crops The total area under Kharif crops in the state is 104 lakh ha. Among Kharif crops, soybean has been sown on over 58 lakh ha, against the target of 56.50 lakh … Read more

Agriculture Developement of Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh Swayatta Sahkarita Adhiniyam:- Madhya Pradesh has enacted a Parallel Act called Madhya Pradesh Swayatta Sahkarita Adhiniyam 1999. Cooperatives which have not received any government assistance in the form of share capital, loan or government guarantee can be registered in it and a registered cooperative Society under the old Act can also be converted. … Read more

Major crops of the state, holdings and cropping patterns, physical and social environment of crop distribution and production

  Rice The rice is cultivated on the largest areas in India. Historians believe that while the Indica variety of rice was first domesticated in the area covering the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas (i.e. north-eastern India).Rice is a nutritional staple food which provides instant energy as its most important component is carbohydrate (starch). Rice … Read more

Cropping pattern in Chhattisgarh

  Cropping pattern : The yearly sequence and spatial arrangement of crops on a given area. The cropping patterns of a region are closely influenced by the geo-climatic, socio-cultural, economic and political factors. The physical Environment (physiographic, Climate, soils and water) imposes limits on the Growth and dis­tribution of crops. Cropping pattern followed in Chhattisgarh is … Read more

Chhattisgarh: Agriculture

  Current Status: agriculture is counted as the chief economic occupation of the state. According to a government estimate, net sown area of the state is 4.828 million hectares and the gross sown area is 5.788 million hectares. About 80% of the Population of the state is rural and the main livelihood of the villagers … Read more

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