Presentation There are concerns about agricultural activities that lead to environmental degradation and health risks associated with food products made intensively. Because of the interest in organic farming is growing. This growing interest in the sustainable management of natural resources and eat organic and healthy, with the growing number of poor farmers who can not afford agrochemicals has led to the possibility that organic farming in the treatment of the issue sustainable food production and livelihoods of resource poor in Sub-Saharan Africa. Low agriculture set applies to systems that rely less on external inputs, shops and more on internal resources. However, according agriculture inout Technolgy (LIAT) reported a negative impression in the different agricultural circles and this is cited as a major obstacle to greater adoption of technologies for low-input agriculture (LIAT) in Malawi and Africa across the Sahara. Increasingly, it is recognized that environmental degradation in Africa is a central factor in holding back agriculture. The loss of forest areas is to accelerate the degradation. Even on soil loss in sloping farmland were reported within 25 tons to 250 tons per hectare in the region. One study estimated that land degradation and soil erosion in Africa reduces the productivity ...
Employment Opportunities for Agricultural Graduates G.M. Wani Ph.D ; D.V.M (Germany) FN ISSGAPU, FN DAAD Director Extension Education / SAMETI Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir Shalimar, Srinagar, 191121 Introduction In the past few years the growth of Agricultural Universities have increased from few in 1940 to more than 40 by 2004. The enrolled students number increased from mere half a thousand to nearly 20 thousands between this period. As on today we have 260 colleges in India imparting educational degrees in Agriculture alone. They consist of various disciplines including veterinary, horticulture, sericulture, forestry, floriculture and a number of other sub-disciplines as plantation crops, medicinal herbs, mushroom, seed production, dairy production, agri-management and like. A number of Government department in India employ agricultural and allied graduates. The mode of recruitment is through respective State & Central Govt. public service commissions. Beside professional employment, the agricultural graduates can compete in the national or State administrative or financial and allied services. Similarly many banks, insurance companies, private industries, private concerns and development companies. The NGO do also employ agricultural and allied graduates. The graduates have ...
3. Global Village Agriculture The world has shrunk into a global village and as such, technological advances taking place in all advanced countries and known instantly that help other countries like ours to adopt and techniques to track their updates. One such country is Israel, which is characterized by topographical variations and a wide range of soils, allowing the cultivation and breeding of a wide variety of crops and animals. A significant increase in the population immediately after 1948 requires a rapid increase in food production, followed by the development of research facilities and extension services. In recent years, Israel, like many other countries, has struggled to continue with the provision of services. This difficulty led agricultural organizations to begin to take responsibility to partially fund the extension of a few years and then tried to reflect the cost to farmers. Farmers are apparently willing to pay for outreach visits to the farm. In this system, the Council of flowers is the financing of many public awareness and farmers for charging the costs of partial farm visits. This system works successfully, aided by the reports submitted electronically by the agents of all Israel to the Central Office of the Ministry ...
Introduction e-Agriculture involves the conceptualization, design, development, evaluation and application of innovative ways to use information and communication technologies (ICT) in the rural domain, with a primary focus on agriculture. Rural development can not be thought without the radical development in the agriculture sector. Monsoon driven agriculture sector itself is loggerheads with its traditional styles and financial crunch. Proper dissemination of the technology can serve a blessing in disguise to revive Indian agriculture sector. Over the years developed nations have used technology as tool to take a leap ahead of other and become self sustained. On the other side of the coin the challenges that face the digital divide, especially in a rural livelihoods context, problems go beyond just technology. It is a multi-faceted problem of ineffective knowledge exchange and management of information content, as well as the lack of human resources, institutional capacity, and sensitivity to gender and the diverse needs of different groups. Problems are many and solutions are few but there is still a ray of hope in this collaboration. History E-Agriculture is one of the action lines identified in the declaration and plan of action of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) through ...
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