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Agriculture
Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. The history of agriculture began thousands of years ago. After gathering wild grains beginning at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers began to plant them around 11,500 years ago. Pigs, sheep and cattle were domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. Industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture in the twentieth century came …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 27 May 2024 English
the island of Majuli, frequent floods over many decades have led to a loss of livelihoods around agriculture while other traditional occupations, such as boat-making, have been unstable sources of income …
decades have led to a loss of livelihoods around agriculture while other traditional occupations, such as …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 30 April 2024 English
Kisan Mazdoor Commission (KMC): Agenda 2024 for Agriculture & Allied Sectors …
Kisan Mazdoor Commission (KMC): Agenda 2024 for Agriculture & Allied Sectors …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 26 March 2024 English
The India Employment Report 2024 was published by the Institute for Human Development (IHD) in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) on March 26, 2024. It is the third …
steady transition of the workforce away from agriculture and into the non-farm sectors. The share of … and skills xx cent of the unskilled casual agriculture workers and 70 per cent of such workers in the … employment growth even outpacing the growth in agriculture gross value added. The rise in labour productivity … from low-productivity agriculture to relatively higher-productivity non- agriculture sectors. During 2000–19 … from low-productivity agriculture to relatively higher-productivity non-agriculture sectors. However, this …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English
challenges faced by primary producers, artisans and rural workers in India. This Agenda 2024 for Agriculture & Allied Sectors was released by KMC on March 19, 2024. It builds on recommendations of the … ownership and management to corporates, highlighting that public sector investment in fixed assets in agriculture is at a meagre 15 per cent. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, has partnered …
are not just a residue from our past; farmers, agriculture and villages are integral to the future of India … existential crisis of Indian agriculture; growing corporate control of agriculture, ecological degradation … of food and livelihood; persisting neglect of agriculture, discrimination against rural economy and town … recommendations on the viability and sustainability of agriculture and allied sectors. The inaugural meeting for … include the formulation of the Agenda for 2024 on agriculture and allied sectors. The study groups have been …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 March 2024 English
The working paper highlights how inequality in India declined in the period after independence until the 1980s, after which it started rising again. The paper compares the wealth and income …
data, 45.5% of the workforce was employed in agriculture, 12.4% in construction, and only 11.6% in manufacturing … inability to pull more of its workforce away from agriculture towards more productive and better-paying employment …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 11 March 2024 English
Public Spending on Agriculture in India: 2010-11 to 2019-20 …
Public Spending on Agriculture in India: 2010-11 to 2019-20 …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 24 February 2024 English
The National Sample Survey Office, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, published this factsheet on the nation-wide 'Household Consumption Expenditure Survey' on February 24, 2024. The survey …
Rural self-employed in agriculture 3,702 self-employed in non-agriculture 4,074 regular wage/salaried … wage/salaried earning in agriculture 3,597 regular wage/salaried earning in non-agriculture 4,533 casual labour … labour in agriculture 3,273 casual labour in non-agriculture 3,315 others 4,684 all 3,773 Urban … Rural self-employed in agriculture 3,783 self-employed in non-agriculture 4,159 regular wage/salaried … wage/salaried earning in agriculture 3,692 regular wage/salaried earning in non-agriculture 4,606 casual labour …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 February 2024 English
This is the first ever report on the ‘state of the world’s migratory species’ and was published through collaboration between UNEP-WCMC (UN Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre) and …
degradation and fragmentation (primarily driven by agriculture), and overexploitation (hunting and fishing …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 February 2024 English
population ratio (WPR), and includes data on the employment statis of workers and the sector (agriculture, secondary or tertiary) they work in. It also supplies data on the unemployment rate (UR) in the …
of work which have been considered here are agriculture sector (NIC-2008 codes 01-03), secondary sector … work in urban areas all-India survey period agriculture sector (NIC-2008 codes 01-03) secondary … 2022 State broad industry of work agriculture sector (NIC-2008 codes 01-03) secondary sector … State broad industry of work agriculture sector (NIC-2008 codes 01-03) secondary sector … December 2022 State broad industry of work agriculture sector (NIC-2008 codes 01-03) secondary sector …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English
Sharada Srinivasan. It highlights the urgent need to address the crisis of ‘generational renewal’ in agriculture and food systems. Farming populations are ageing across the world and do not seem to have successors …
and A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi 3 “Regenerating” Agriculture: Becoming a Young Farmer in Manitoba, Canada … Young Farmers’ Difficulties and Adaptations in Agriculture: A Case Study from a Mountainous Town in Sichuan … Pradesh, India 277 Sudha Narayanan 11 Youth and Agriculture in Indonesia 303 Aprilia Ambarwati, Charina … Her research interests include rural youth in agriculture, rural youth employment, and the dynamics of … research interests focus on rural youth in agriculture and evaluation of poverty alleviation programmes …