Government of India has emerged with many policies and programmes relating to different crops, exports, taxes, subsidies, supplies of inputs, availability of credit etc. The policies of expansion of irrigation facilities, determination of agricultural prices like procurement prices, support prices and a host of other policies have all contributed to changing crop pattern. Cropping pattern means the proportion of area under different crops at a particular period of time. Cropping pattern in India is determined
Nepal is a country with the highest peak of the world surrounded by India in South, East and West and by China in the North. It is a landlocked country with 800 kilometer long open border with India. In terms of physical features, Nepal can be divided into three main regions with wide variations in altitude and climate: (i) the Himalayan region, (ii) the Mountainous region, and (iii)
Poverty and Healthcare in India: Post Reform Scenario *Suresh Kumar, Assistant Professor , Doaba college, Jalandhar magosuresh75@gmail.com Abstract The ultimate aim of development is reduce poverty and improve standard of living of all its citizens. For this it is required
Tea cultivation in Darjeeling hills was a part of a broader Colonial policy of Commercialization of Agriculture which was one of the essential features of the 19th Century Indian economy. The colonial commercial venture prompted the search for new market which in turn fostered cross border trade. In this context Tibet was envisages as potential market for the Indian Tea. The colonial knowledge about Tibetan fondness for tea date back to the time of Warren Hasting; the accounts of the first English
basic needs has put a lot of pressure on the plant genetic resources (PGR) and diversity particularly in agricultural sector in terms of addressing the accompanied challenges associated with increasing crop productivity. The utilization of PGR in agriculture has not only brought about profound changes in the crop productivity and quality, but has also opened up newer and unforeseen potential vistas including improvement of novel traits by domestication, manipulating plant architecture and molecular
4.1 The dawn of the railway development in Thailand Territory, technology, and money To put it bluntly, the birth of the railway development in Siam walked hand in hand with the emergence of modernized Siam, which has consisted of two characteristics: territorialized nation-state and capitalist economy. Several studies, for example, Holm (1991), Chaiyan (1994), and Kakizaki (2005) which conclude that the newly-built railway system was concomitantly a tool of the Thai state in centralizing power