Rice

Water use is excessive in rice cultivation

Farmers in India are using 25 times the amount of water that agricultural scientists say is needed to produce paddy. Improper irrigation methods and misconceptions are the stated reasons for the high wastage of a scarce resource.

Publication Date:

14/11/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Multicrop Systems, Rice, Water Conservation, Irrigation, Farmers, Science And Technology

Water Resources

Pollution, not rice accumulated methane

THOUGH a great deal of fuss has been raised in scientific circles over methane production by rice paddies and cattle in the developing world, which is likely to heat up the earth, the atmospheric

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution, Rice, Atmosphere, Green House Gases, Global Warming

Agriculture

Agricultural income and its distribution in Bihar

Bihar is a predominantly agricultural State with 86 per cent of her population depending upon agriculture. In my study of the National Income of Bihar published in the Indian Journal of Economics, July 1951, I had estimated the gross agricultural income of Bihar for the year 1846-47 at Rs. 230 crores, basing myself on the statistics published in the Season and Crop Report, and at Rs. 272 crores when based on the statistics contained in the Crop Survey Report.

Publication Date:

01/08/1953

Author(s): S. R. Bose

Source: Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics

pp:

33-43

Tags:

Agriculture, Bihar, Rice, Wheat, Legumes, Millets, Statistics, Cotton