Textbook of organic farming / D. Kumari Manimuthu Veeral.
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: Udaipur : Agrotech Publishing Academy, 2015Description: 232 p. : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cmISBN: 9788183213738; 8183213731Subject(s): Organic farming | Agriculture | Agricultural Sciences TextbookDDC classification: 631.584 Summary: Agriculture is practices by 120 million farm families who live in 6.5 lakh villages. About 77% of the total farming community belongs to marginal and small farmers, who possess only 30% of total operated area. On the other hand the per capita availability of land from the time of independence of the country has declined. Out of 328.8 mha of total geographical area, only 144 mha is available of cultivation which has to sustain over one billion of population. The post green revolution era in the agriculture and allied sector has witnessed a decreasing growth rate, decline in size of land holdings, depletion soil quality, changing rainfall pattern over years, ground water depletion and diminishing returns have brought down the agricultural growth and the consequent widening of the gap between rural and urban incomes has become a major course of concern.
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Agriculture is practices by 120 million farm families who live in 6.5 lakh villages. About 77% of the total farming community belongs to marginal and small farmers, who possess only 30% of total operated area. On the other hand the per capita availability of land from the time of independence of the country has declined. Out of 328.8 mha of total geographical area, only 144 mha is available of cultivation which has to sustain over one billion of population. The post green revolution era in the agriculture and allied sector has witnessed a decreasing growth rate, decline in size of land holdings, depletion soil quality, changing rainfall pattern over years, ground water depletion and diminishing returns have brought down the agricultural growth and the consequent widening of the gap between rural and urban incomes has become a major course of concern.
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