Nearly 72.2% population of India is living in 6.38 lakh villages, mostly dependent upon agriculture and livestock for their livelihood. Crops productivity is largely restricted by uncertain and erratic rainfall, scarcity of water for irrigation and deterioration of soil-health. Out of the 138 million...
The modern system of farming has several advantages, which include increasing quantity of crop production to meet the demand of escalating human population however it has demerits, as well. The use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides that has negatively impacted the human health has ...
India is a country in which agriculture plays an important role in enhancing the country`s GDP rate and enriching the country's pride. The agricultural yield produced from urban areas are nearly zero. In today's world, many high rise buildings are constructed in cities. It is impossible to ...
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The distribution ranged from 66 percent of the economically active population in sub-Saharan Africa to less than 3 percent in the United States and Canada. In Asia and the Pacific the figure was 60 percent; in Latin America and the Caribbean, 19 percent; and in Europe, 9 percent.Farm size...
Back in 2015, the ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Loss at the University of Illinois embarked on an ambitious project supported by ADM Cares in Dih Sarsauna, Bihar, India. Bihar is one of the poorest and most populous states in India, with 80 percent of the population ...
Vodafone Connected Farming in India 5 India: challenges and opportunities for agriculture India is home to 1.24 billion people – one-sixth of the world's population on just 2% of its land11 and its population is anticipated to reach 1.67 billion by 2020. It is one of the world's largest...
The biggest challenge as being faced by the India's policy makers is the persisting high incidence of poverty.The situation is likely to worsen because of the growing pressure of population on land and limited scope for increasing additional production through subsistence farming. If the productivity...
Global Population and the Nitrogen Cycle "feeding humankind now demands so much nitrogen-based fertilizer that the distribution of nitrogen on the earth has been changed in dramatic and sometimes ... Smil 被引量: 342发表: 1997年 Tortuosity in Porous Media: A Critical Review Organic farmingPLFASoi...
the highly populated countries like China, India etc to meet the production volume for feeding the growing population with the inadequate organic inputs. For example in India it is estimated that the gap between the available and required organic inputs will be around 30 million tonnes in 2025....