What are the various aspects of Agricultural Development?
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Important land use processes are agricultural development and intensification, settlement, and extraction of natural resources. In response to human land use, the earth's land cover has changed from a mosaic of native ecosystems, to an increasingly impacted mixture of degraded and fragmented habitats. In the last three centuries, primary forests have declined 20%, natural grasslands and savannas have declined nearly 40%, whereas croplands have increased 390%, and pastures 460%. Almost 39% of earth's land surface is transformed into agricultural land and settlements, and an additional 37% of global land without such use has become embedded within these anthromes.
Hemalata C. Dandekar, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015
Hemalata C. Dandekar, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015The Indian Model
Hemalata C. Dandekar, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015The Indian ModelAt the point of independence from British rule, India embraced rural planning directly. Initial Indian national planning efforts to achieve rapid socioeconomic change concentrated on industrialization at chosen metropolitan centers, on the assumption that the benefits would ‘trickle down’ through the economy. Planners believed that although initially benefits would be concentrated in the core cities, they would spread to rural areas. However, they also recognized the need to promote complementary rural planning to reduce existing and anticipated urban–rural disparities in wealth.
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This can be achieved in many ways such as increasing the cropped area, the number of crops grown, improving irrigation facilities, use of fertilisers and high yielding variety of seeds. Mechanisation of agriculture is also another aspect of agricultural development.