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Agricultural extension was once known as the application of scientific research and new knowledge to agricultural practices through farmer education. The field of extension now encompasses a wider range of communication and learning activities organised for rural people by professionals from different disciplines, including agriculture, agricultural marketing, health, and business studies. Extension practitioners can be found throughout the world, usually working ...
Commercial crops are crops grown solely for sale rather than for the farmers' own use, for example, oilseed, tea, coffee, cotton, or sugarcane. Many developing world countries grow commercial crops to meet their debt repayments rather than grow food for their own people. India is noted for several plantation cash crops, of which the most important are tea, rubber, oilseed, coconut, and sugarcane.The present book provides latest technological advances in the ...
Agroforestry is an integrated approach of using the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock. It combines agricultural and forestry technologies to create more diverse, productive, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems. In agroforestry systems, trees or shrubs are intentionally used within agricultural systems, or non-timber forest resources are cultured in forest settings.The present book describes the state ...