Posts Tagged ‘Farm’

Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture

June 19th, 2010

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Winner of the 2003 Saloutos Award for the best book on American agricultural history given by the Agricultural History Society During the early decades of the twentieth century, agricultural practice in America was transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial activity. In this book Deborah Fitzgerald argues that farms became modernized in the 1920s because they adopted not only new machinery but also the financial, cultural, and ideological apparatus of ind… More >>

Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture

Capacity Building and E.extension for Enhancing Agriculture Productivity in India

January 28th, 2010

Abstract
The green revolution, white and blue gave us food security. The high yield varieties and new technologies were webbed with chemical farming. Even today we have critical gaps in the productivity of foodgrains between technology with farms and farming practices. The chemical farming has led to soil degradation, water pollution, soil erosion and salinity. Meanwhile, we are faced with land degradation in 173 million hectares or about 53% of the area. Each year we lose 5000 million tons of topsoil with NPK losses of 5-8 million tonnes per year.
In Mahrastra according to a survey that the black soil depth of 60 cm in 1910 which has since been reduced. Over 18% of it became a flat. Reduced soil depth is now due to low productivity in the runoff of soil and drought conditions. Therefore, to avoid these negative effects, we have solid information and communication methods for binding soil mapping, data of annual rainfall, rainfall and climate forecasts for farmers (Wani, 2005).
The conservation and proper use must have sufficient knowledge to be produced by the advanced satellite system and was able to count back through communication mechanism. Thus, to increase agricultural production, communication tools should be used. » Read more: Capacity Building and E.extension for Enhancing Agriculture Productivity in India

Employment Potential for Agricultural and Allied Graduate as Self Employers

January 28th, 2010

Introduction

In recent years, growth in agriculture of the few universities in 1940 to over 40 have increased the 2004th student enrollment has increased by only half a mile to nearly 20 miles of the same period. As today we have 260 schools in the qualifications to teach in India in agriculture alone. They consist of various disciplines including veterinary, horticulture, sericulture, forestry, floriculture, and a number of in other disciplines such as plantation crops, medicinal plants, fungi, production seeds, dairy, agriculture and management, etc.. A number of Government of India Ministry of Agriculture and allied employ graduates. The type of recruitment by the concerned State and Central Govt. free public service.

In addition to the professional employment of agricultural graduates can compete in the national or state or of financial and related services. Many banks, insurance companies, private companies, private companies and development companies. NGOs do not employ or agricultural and allied graduates. Graduates must pass through the employment of existing and new magazines to radio, television, and both central and State Govt. Also presented at the fairs. A large number of professional courses, administrative and industrial new functions related to agriculture and related studies were also announced. These include business management, financial management or related disciplines in the business sector. A degree in mass media, computers or even graduates of commerce provide additional employment opportunities in Govt. And the private sector. Overseas opportunities for graduates in agriculture are also there, but come out in international agriculture and a driving license in addition to a passport. » Read more: Employment Potential for Agricultural and Allied Graduate as Self Employers

Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community

January 1st, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9781584654148
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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While the American agricultural and food systems follow a decades-old path of industrialization and globalization, a counter trend has appeared toward localizing some agricultural and food production. Thomas A. Lyson, a scholar-practitioner in the field of community-based food systems, calls this rebirth of locally based agriculture and food production civic agriculture because these activities are tightly linked to a community’s social and economic development. Civ… More >>

Civic Agriculture: Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community

A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929

January 1st, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9780813192420
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended livestock; today there are fewer than 4.5 million farmers who feed a populati… More >>

A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929