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During 2003–04, agriculture accounted for 22% of India's GDP and employed 58% of the country's workforce. [88] India is the world's largest producer of milk, fruits, cashew nuts, coconuts, ginger, turmeric, banana, sapota, pulses, and black pepper. [88] India is the second largest producer of groundnut, wheat, vegetables, sugar and fish in ...
Organic Farming has grown by 3.53 million acres (1,430,000 hectares) in the U.S. from 2000 to 2011. [242] In 2016, California had 2,713 organic farms, which makes California the largest producer of organic goods in the U.S. [241] 4% of food sales in the U.S. are of organic goods. [243]
Worldwide employment In agriculture, forestry and fishing in 2021. India has one of the highest number of people employed in these sectors. As per the 2014 FAO world agriculture statistics India is the world's largest producer of many fresh fruits like banana, mango, guava, papaya, lemon and vegetables like chickpea, okra and milk, major spices like chili pepper, ginger, fibrous crops such as ...
In India's drylands, ley farming is used as a way to restore soil fertility. It involves rotations of grasses and food grains in a specific area. It is now being promoted even more to encourage organic farming, especially in the drylands. [7] Ley farming acts as insurance against crop failures by frequent droughts.
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. [1] Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities.
Subhash Palekar (born 2 February 1949) is an Indian agriculturist who practiced and wrote many books about Subhash Palekar Natural Farming (previously called Zero Budget Natural Farming). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Palekar was born in 1949 [ 3 ] in a small village Belora in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra in India, and he has an agricultural background.
India Organic is a certification mark for organically farmed food products manufactured in India. [1] The certification mark certifies that an organic food product confirms to the National Standards for Organic Products [ 2 ] established in 2000.
The genesis of the Green Revolution was a lengthy visit in 1940 by U.S. Vice President-elect Henry A. Wallace, who had served as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture during President Franklin Roosevelt's first two terms, and before government service, had founded a company, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, that had revolutionized the hybridization of ...