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Plantation agriculture involves a large farm or estate usually in a tropical or sub-tropical country where crops are grown for sale in distant markets rather than local consumption. [ 6 ] Commercial grain farming is a response to farm mechanization and it is the major type of activity in the areas of low rainfall and low density of population ...
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 ...
The oldest evidence for Indian agriculture is in north-west Indian subcontinent dates from the Neolithic c. 8000-6000 BCE, with traces of the cultivation of plants and domestication of crops and animals. [2] India was the largest producer of wheat and grain. Then settled life soon followed with implements and techniques being developed for ...
View of tea plantations in Munnar Lockhart Tea Factory in Munnar Tata Tea Museum in Munnar Cherry Resort inside Temi Tea Garden, Namchi, Sikkim Tea plantation in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh Darjeeling tea plantations on hills, Darjeeling. India's tea industry is the fourth largest in the world, producing $709,000,000 worth of tea. [13]
Tree plantations, in the United States often called tree farms, are established for the commercial production of timber or tree products such as palm oil, coffee, or rubber. Teak and bamboo plantations in India have given good results and an alternative crop solution to farmers of central India, where conventional farming was widespread. But ...
Plantation economies are factory-like, industrialised and centralised forms of agriculture, [citation needed] owned by large corporations or affluent owners. Under normal circumstances, plantation economies are not as efficient as small farm holdings, since there is immense difficulty in proper supervision of labour over a large land area.
It has commercial and economic importance not only in India but also in China and Southeast Asia. [1] [2] Areca nut production in India is the largest in the world, as per the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) statistics for 2017, accounting for 54.07% of its world output, [3] and is exported to many countries. [4]
Rice production in India is an important part of the economy of India. [1] Dry paddy fields in South India Mature rice, Thrissur, Kerala. India is the world's second-largest producer of rice, and the largest exporter of rice in the world. [2] Production increased from 53.6 million tons in FY 1980 [1] to 120 million tons in FY2020-21. [3] Paddy ...