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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
UTTARAKHAND produces an estimated 792077 MT of fruits and 606507 MT of vegetables.presently 39 percent of the cultivation land in the state is under
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
INFRASTRUCTURE Limited facilities for grading, sorting & packaging Inappropriate transport facilities for erishables Poor Mandi infrastructure Lack of net work of rural/ local markets Lac of perishable cargo centre Fluctuations in area & prod. due to frequent drought conditions, Its need of the hour to bring stability through Rain Water Harvesting based fruit plantations having … Read more
the syllabus states that -mazor crops,Cropping patterns in various parts of the country,different types of Irrigation system,storage,transport and Marketing of agricultural product,and issues related to constraints,e-tec hnology in the aid of farmers….the link for yojna January 2011 for agriculture is for dowloading dere would be a link as download pdf also ncert geography land use … Read more
SEED Industry India is the fifth largest seed market across the globe. It is expected to grow at more than 15% during 2017–2022, and can reach a value of more than US$ 7 Billion by 2022. The seed market is majorly contributed by non-vegetable seeds such as corn, Cotton, paddy, wheat, sorghum, sunflower and Millets. … Read more
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
Plants Plant, any multicellular eukaryotic life-form characterized by photosynthetic Nutrition (a characteristic possessed by all plants except some parasitic plants and underground orchids), in which chemical energy is produced from water, Minerals, and carbon dioxide with the aid of pigments and the radiant energy of the Sun, essentially unlimited Growth at localized regions, … Read more
Fertilizers All Plants need certain mineral nutrients to survive. These Minerals occur naturally in the Soil and are taken up from the soil by the roots of the plants. Most soils usually have enough of these minerals to keep plants healthy. However, some nutrients are gradually used up by the plants, or are … Read more