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Several wild cereals, including rice, grewinthe Vindhyan ills, and rice cultivation, at sites such as Chopani-Mando and Mahagara, may have been underway as early as 7000 BP. The relative isolation of th is area and th eeariy development of rice famign impiy that it was developed indigenously, Chopani-Mando and Mahagara are located on the upper reaches of the Ganges drainage system and it is likely that migrants from this area spread rice farmign down the Ganges ...
Around ten to twelve thousand years ago, human began to domesticate plants and animals for food. Before this first agricultural revolution, people relied on hunting and gathering to obtain food supplies. While there are still groups of hunters and gatherers in the world, most societies have switched to agriculture. The beginnings of agriculture did not just occur in one place but appeared almost simultaneously around the world, possibly through trail and error ...
In a developing country with overflowing food grain stocks, a liberalizing economy set on a growth path, and techno bureaucracy willing to pursue new technologies with a reasonable open mind, the situation seems ripe for agricultural biotechnology. The investment in this sector is picking up and the private sector has been given a pivotal role along with synergistic public investment. Top Indian policy makers argue that biotechnology will provide food security to ...
Although agriculture contributes only 21% of India's GDP, its importance in the country's economic, social, and political fabric goes well beyond this indicator. The rural areas are still home to some 72 percent of the India's 1.1 billion people, a large number of whom are poor. Most of the rural poor depend on rain-fed agriculture and fragile forests for their livelihoods. The sharp rise in food-grain production during India's Green Revolution of the 1970s ...