Agriculture has been playing a significant role throughout the history of mankind. Agriculture used to once dominate human life. It provides food, and employment for people. However, due to the development of industry and services, people currently have less concern about farming than they used to since these two are making more profit than agriculture does. Therefore, it is obvious that the number of people working in agriculture sector is declining day by day. It seems that agriculture does
mostly practiced by very rich farmers or companies. Agriculture has many branches which allow people to specialized and gain employment in those Some branches of agriculture includes Agronomy, Soil science, Animal science, Agricultural engineering, Agricultural economics, Agricultural extension education, home economics, Horticulture, Forestry, Fisheries, Veterinary Medicine etc. Importance of agriculture. Contribution to National Income: Agriculture is the premier source of our national income. The
IMPORTANCE: 1. Control of Drought and Famines Insufficient, uncertain and irregular rain causes uncertainty in agriculture. The period of rain is restricted to only four months in a year, June to September, when monsoon arrives. The remaining eight months are dry. There is some rainfall during the months of December and January in some parts of the country. Even during monsoon, the rainfall is scanty and undependable in many parts of the country. Sometimes the monsoon delayed considerably while sometimes
THE RELEVANCE OF EDAPHIC FACTORS OF SOIL TO AGRICULTURE Marjorie Villareal INTRODUCTION Soil is very beneficial to all organisms and abiotic factors in our ecosystem (e.g., a) it serves as a filter to water and a growth medium of various species b) provides habitat for billions of organisms, contributing to biodiversity c) it is also the main supplier for many minute organisms which serves as antibiotics for many diseases). We, humans are dependent to the soil like using it as a holding facility
Agriculture is the most important activity of a human being. Agriculture played a key role in the development of human civilization. Indian economy has been considered as an agrarian economy with ¾ of its population in villages having agriculture and allied activities as their prime occupation. In India most of the population gives importance to agriculture because it provides both food and livelihood to more than half of the population, also supplies lot of goods and raw materials required by the
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE ISDCS Assignment Industrial Agriculture System The industrial agriculture system, which is currently in practice in most developed and developing economies, is consuming water, fossil fuel, top soil and other natural resources at unsustainable rates which cannot be supported by the nature. It also leads to environment degradation in various forms including but not restricted to air and water pollution, diminishing bio-diversity, depletion of topsoil, and fish die-offs
Agriculture constitutes the main source of employment and livelihood for the majority of the world 's poor Meijerink and Roza (2007). Therefore, the importance to invest more in the agricultural sector has been raised so as to raise productivity in agriculture. Hence, agriculture is a major contributor to the growth of any given nation in all the many sectors of growth, it plays tremendous roles in the nation’s economic development, such roles includes; provision of food for the teeming population
INTRODUCTION Agriculture in India is the most crucial sector and plays significant role in the economic development of Indian economy. India’s prosperity depends upon the prosperity of agriculture as it provides employment to two third of its population and contributes nearly one third of national income. However, its importance goes well beyond the economic fabric of India. Social, cultural, political and economic structure of the economy is strongly built on the foundations of agriculture. Strengthening
Agriculture in Mexico is significant from the very early stages as it stood as the third largest exporter of agricultural goods in the United States market. Agriculture in Mexico employed more than 25 percent of the labour force and contributed in having a significant GDP. Crop production was and continuous to be the most important agriculture activity for Mexico. Wheat, beans, corns and sorghum are the most important crops for consumption purpose. Fruits, vegetables, sugars and coffee are the most
Agriculture has been the backbone of the Ghanaian economy until recently where the production and expansion of the oil sector, has shrunk the agriculture sector in relative terms (Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), 2013, 2014). Agriculture contributes around 22% to GDP, employs 45.5% of the population on a formal and informal basis and contributes approximately 45% of all export earnings (Ashitey, 2012; ISSER, 2013; ISSER, 2014). Ghana’s agriculture is vastly dominated