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Apart from the importance of farmers and agriculture in the society and economy concerned, several conditions appear to be necessary for the initiation and organized development of agricultural extension work. The prime condition is that information has been assembled systematized, and made available on good or progressive or new agricultural practices suited to a particular environment, and is based on either (or both) the accumulation of experience or findings ...
Dictionary of agricultural vocabulary terms used in agriculture, horticulture and other related areas. The vocabulary ranges from the equipment used on a farm to breeds of livestock, varieties of crops, types of pesticide and herbicide, and farm building construction. It covers not only agriculture in temperatures regions, but also makes particular reference to the agriculture.
India has made lot of progress in agriculture since independence in terms of growth in output, yields and area under many crops. It has gone through a Green Revolution, a White Revolution, a Yellow Revolution and a Blue Revolution. Today, India is the largest producer of milk, fruits, cashew nuts, coconuts and tea in the world, the second largest producer of wheat, vegetables, sugar and fish and the third largest producer of tobacco and rice. The per capita ...