HOW MUCH DOES NATURE MATTER? LAND SUITABILITY, IRRIGATION, AND AGRICULTURAL GROWTH IN INDIAAnant SudarshanUniversity of Chicago
The pie chart illustrates the occasions that are responsible for degradation of firming land and the table further elaborates how much land in North America, Europe and Oceania was degraded due to these occasions during the period of 1990s. Overall, it can be seen that Over-cultivation did not...
In recent years, China's agricultural land has decreased year by year. In order to alleviate the shortage of land and improve the efficiency of land use, the state has successively issued a number of relevant policies to encourage the transfer of agricultural land management rights. In this con...
Why Is Rice Better Grown In Water?Growing rice needs much water to thrive. For this reason, growing rice over water rather than land is preferred. This approach to growing has many advantages:the growing crops can easily get to the water they need, with less water being wasted due to ...
Much of these the world’s croplands were once forests, drylands, plains, and lowlands. And this loss in green cover is clearly seen across Africa, South America, and parts of Asia. However, some regions have also witnessed tree plantations, orchards, and aquaculture replacing former croplands...
India's much-abused, ramshackle administra tion rose to the occasion to prevent a major famine from occurring. The famines overseen routinely by the British would not be repeated in independent India. An uphill task To fully appreciate the task that India's leadership and administrators ...
per capita has increasedby almost twice as muchsince the 1960s. A third of the food at retail and consumer levels ends up as waste, of which more than 55% is sent to landfills, while the rest finds other food management pathways such as combustion, composting, donation, and land ...
Chapter 2 investigates the impact on agricultural investments of the strengthening in tenure security induced by Vietnam's 1993 Land Law, which set up a new land tenure system based on de jure private property rights. Idiosyncratic characteristics of Vietnam's land reform and the panel nature of...
In particular, the aim of the study was to determine how much the natural environment of the Białka river recovered after heavy anthropogenic pressure abruptly ceased. 2. Material and methods 2.1. Study area and sample collection The selection of the sampling sites was based on 7 years of ...
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