The crop productivity in Siwalik rainfed areas including kandi belt of Jammu and Kashmir is very low. To improve the agricultural productivity of these areas, a holistic approach through watershed management project was introduced in early 1990 to manipulate land and water resources more efficiently for better crop production.
Sikkim is not self-sufficient in food production due to limited land availability for cultivation and lower level of productivity affected by constraining mountain specificities such as inaccessibility, fragility and marginality. The people are rich in indigenous knowledge on bio-resources and supplemented their food from the wild plants and animals in the beginning.
This guidelines provide basic information and practical guidance for anyone who participates in a FAO/WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission (CFSAM) - whether as a FAO/WFP core team member, a government or other agency participant, or a donor observer.
Betel nut farmers at the foothills of the Western Ghats have something new and important to teach India and the rest of the world, says Jai Ranganathan, lead author of a recent scientific study that was published recently in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the US.
Organic farming process must be promoted for the farmers to become self dependent, said MLC C T Ravi.
Laying the foundation stone for the veterinary hospital at Sindigere village, Mr Ravi said that India is incomplete without farmers and farmers are incomplete without cattle.
Policy makers in India recognize the importance of well-functioning markets to agricultural growth, food security, and broad-based rural development. Markets facilitate the commercialization and diversification of farming, and they are essential for efficiently bringing food and agricultural products to domestic and international consumers.
THE Netherlands, a small country in Europe with a population smaller than 16 million, is the second largest exporter of agricultural and horticultural produce in the world after the United States.
