tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609899527971207128.post5446767550304240805..comments2024-03-09T00:28:45.211-08:00Comments on AGRITANGKOL: Agriculture dependency in rise: IndiaSamirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03305465812664470160noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4609899527971207128.post-15654709119373319502011-10-06T04:09:48.382-07:002011-10-06T04:09:48.382-07:00The Government of India, has identified agricultur...The Government of India, has identified agriculture sector as the main thrust area simply because maximum population is depending on this sector for their livelihood. In our country the economic development indexes is agriculture that is to say that, if in a given year growth in agriculture sector is satisfactory but production is low, not in international standards.<br /><br />Japan is the only industrialized country whose agriculture is based on rice. Data from World Rice Statistics revealed that in 2009, Japan had a total of 1,624,000 hectares of land dedicated to riceand produced 10,592,500 tons of rice. Average yield is about 6.52 tons per hectare. Japanese rice is mostly produced on small family holdings; 96% of which have three hectares or less.<br />The high productivity in Japan was a result of public investments in research to generate better rice varieties and production techniques and of farmers adopting improved practices for cultivation, fertilizer use, soil management and pest and disease control.<br /> The Japanese scientific acquiring literature on rice in the early 1960s. About 30% of the rice research references at the IRRI headquarters in the Philippines were from Japan. These references were collected by the IRRI library specialists in Japan and were made available to scientists around the world.shankar chakmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09946741770638613546noreply@blogger.com