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Archive for Agricultural Revolution

Agriculture Sector Crying for More Attention

Even as 2009 brought much cheer to the Indian economy with an unexpected growth rate of 7.9% in the second quarter, FM has cautioned that agriculture sector will prove to be a roadblock in achieving the coveted 9% overall growth rate in the current fiscal.
Pranab Mukherjee warned that agriculture may post negative growth during the [...]

Wheat News

Wheat futures resumed their rally, ending four days of losses, ahead of the release of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest global supply estimate.
December-delivery wheat rose 0.8 percent to $7.305 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade at 1:58 p.m. in Singapore.
World inventories at the end of the 2010-2011 season may slip to a [...]

Arab Agricultural Revolution

The Arab Agricultural Revolution(also known as the Medieval Green Revolution,Muslim Agricultural Revolution, Islamic Agricultural Revolution and Islamic Green Revolution) is a term coined by the historian Andrew Watson in his influential 1974 paper postulating a fundamental transformation in agriculture from the 8th century to the 13th century in the Muslim lands.This was an extension of [...]

Africa’s Green Revolution ‘needs indigenous tech approach’

Seeding a Green Revolution for Africa will require developing innovation systems that match each country and science and technology approaches that are relevant to local agriculture, according to a UN report.
“There has been a tendency to focus on applying international models of agricultural development without questioning their applicability to local circumstances,” says the ‘Technology [...]