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Agricultural research in India: An exploratory study [1]

Agriculture is the backbone of the Indian economy which plays the most decisive role in the socioeconomic development of the country. Indian agriculture is a miscellaneous and extensive sector involving a large number of actors. India has one of the largest and institutionally most complex agricultural research systems in the world. The agricultural research system in India includes some 27,500 scientists and more than one lakh supporting staff actively engaged in agricultural research, which makes it probably the largest research system in the world.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2012
Anwesha Borthakur [2], Pardeep Singh [3]
International Journal of Social Science & Interdisciplinary Research [4]
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9
59-74
Tags:
Agricultural Research [5], India [6], Indian Council Of Agricultural Research (ICAR) [7], Scientists [8], Planning [9], Maize [10], GM Crops [11], Cotton [12], Oilseeds [13], Millets [14]
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