Agriculture is the major occupation of people of India, around 60-70% of its population is engaged in agriculture. Annually millions and tons of pesti..Radhika SharmaAakriti SaraswatDivya PKriti Maheshwari
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Agriculture was once India’s main source of revenue and income but it fell to approximately 17.59% of the country’s GDP by April 2024.5Analysts have pointed out that this fall should not be equated with a decrease in production. It reflects the large increases in India’s industrial and se...
The present global governance architecture for nutrition, food, and agriculture is incapable of appropriately addressing the difficulties of ensuring progress toward food security [3]; with disproportionately concentrated malnutrition among poor children in India [4]. India’s population is expected to ...
India has always relied heavily on agriculture for employment—with the largest share of Indian workers working in the sector.13However, dependence on agriculture and related activities as a primary income source had been trending down in rural areas until the pandemic (figure 4). This trend rever...
The population dynamics of earthworms in 3 successional fallows developed after slash and burn agriculture (jhum) at an elevation of 960 m of Meghalaya was analysed While 0- and 15-yr old fallows had only one species in the soil ecosystem, 5-yr fallow had one additional species apart from...
Income shares are smaller in India than in China below the ninth decile and higher only in the top 10% of the population (42% in India and 31 in China). The differential is as great as ten percentage points in the top 5% (share of 29% compared with 19). Thus, while there are ...
(MDM) programmes; enhanced market access and value chain development for local agricultural produce; and creation of employment opportunities at community level for rural youths and reducing over-dependence of rural population on agriculture as source of income can make traditional farming more profitable...
The country's main economic sectors are the service sector and agriculture. India is the world's top producer of milk, pulses, jute and the second largest producer of cotton, wheat and rice. The main trading partners are China, the USA and the UAE. ...
Fig. 1: Current cropping pattern in India shown as percentage net-cropped area in Kharif season. Twelve primary crops procured by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, are grouped into rice (a), other cereals (bajra, maize, jowar, and ragi) (b), pulses (tur and other pulses...