Agriculture

 Wheat wave

A Mexican wheat variety is bringing cheer to farmers in Uzbekistan. The winter wheat developed in Mexico was released to farmers in several provinces of Uzbekistan late last year. The variety,

Publication Date: 
14/03/2003
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Agriculture, Wheat, Uzbekistan, Mexico
Agriculture

 New crop scheme for Punjab farmers

the seeds of a novel programme to reduce the rice-wheat predominance in Punjab's cropping pattern have been planted. The state recently launched a multi-crop, multi-year contract farming programme.

Publication Date: 
14/02/2003
T V Jayan
Down to Earth
Tags:
Soil Capability, Land Degradation, Agriculture, Multicrop Systems, Pesticides, Rice, Wheat, Groundwater, Farmers, Pesticide Residues, Punjab
India

 With IT villages

Elsewhere the bubble may have burst, but in rural India infotech is alive and kicking

Publication Date: 
14/06/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Agricultural Inputs, Basmati Rice, Wheat, Soyabean, Coffee, Aquaculture, Rural Development, NGO, India, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Internet, Computers
Agriculture

 UNITED NATIONS

Over the next 50 years, harvests of staple crops like rice, maize and wheat may be reduced by one- third due to global warming. This has been revealed by a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Publication Date: 
14/12/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Rice, Wheat, Maize, Global Warming, UNEP, Uganda, Philippines
Agriculture

 Salted lands of Australia

Bad cropping practices and ill planned water management leads to salted Australian farmland

Publication Date: 
29/04/2001
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Use, Agriculture, Dryland Farming, Wheat, Wool, Salt, Water Management, Environmental Science, Europe, Ireland, Australia
Agriculture

 Brown revolution

WHEAT is the Crop of the coming era, says the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). And India is slated to be the lead producer of this cereal in the next decade. In

Publication Date: 
29/11/1995
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Wheat, Drought Management
Agriculture

 The new breadbasket

AFTER the Green Revolution, the next great leap forward in food production is predicted to be in the cerrado region of South America, a grassy area covering more than 200 million ha. This exceeds the

Publication Date: 
14/09/1993
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Wheat, South America
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
S. R. Bose
Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics
33-43
Tags:
Agriculture, Bihar, Rice, Wheat, Legumes, Millets, Statistics, Cotton
Agriculture

Precision observations on weather and crops

Earlier researches have shown that forecasts of crop acreage and yields can be made on the basis of weather factors. Where adequate data exist such forecasts may be more accurate than those arrived at by the subjective methods used in the official forecasts of most countries.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
01/03/1936
R. J. Kalamkar, K. M. Gadre
Current Science
645-646
Tags:
Weather Predictions, Agriculture, India, Wheat, Plant Diseases

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