evolution of agriculture in india?
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, agricultural growth in the region was slow compared to the rates achieved in the past thirty years. Agricultural development in the recent past has been characterized by an extraordinary diversity both within and between countries. Many largely traditional farming systems that were sustainable with a low density of population are becoming increasingly strained by, and vulnerable to, the pressure of rising population. Spectacular environmental damage exemplifies the consequences of this pressure as land-hungry cultivators push into the tropical forests and up the hillsides. A growing prosperity among some groups contrasts with the deepening poverty among others less fortunate.
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hm..try wikipedia seach that gives great detail on any word we try moreover agriculture etc will fetch u more than say 5 page long details\nand ya...good luck for the project!!
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without writing an essay myself, my very clever boyfriend who used to be a farmer, if u read the agricultural notebook, it will have all the answers u need. good luck
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Well, ancient India developed writing (Sanskrit) before almost everyone (with the exception of the Cuniform found in Mesopotamia).  Additionally, in India they developed cities, a complex caste system (where people were divided into different socioeconomic classes) and a strong written and oral tradition (see the Vedas, the Baghavadgita, etc).  Additionally, there are many who believe that India had the first real civilization as much as 14000 years ago, but that their initial advancement was set back by a rise in the sealevel due to glacial runoff (the thawing of the most recent ice age, actually).  There are even speculations that they possessed advance techology.  For example, there is an account in the Gita about a weapon that sounds a lot like a nuclear weapon.  Additionally, Alexander the Great (not a guy known for exageration) swore up and down that when he invaded that area he was attacked by "flying machines".  Very interesting story.
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usually i look for these things on wikipedia but all i could find was "the geography of sri lanka". heres a paragraph from that article:\n\nThe nature of agricultural pursuits in Sri Lanka has changed over the centuries and has usually depended upon the availability of arable land and water resources. In earlier times, when villagers had access to plentiful forests that separated settlements from each other, slash-and-burn agriculture was a standard technique. As expanding population and commercial pressures reduced the amount of available forestland, however, slash-and-burn cultivation steadily declined in favor of permanent cultivation by private owners. Until the 13th century, the village farming communities were mainly on the northern plains around Anuradhapura and then Polonnaruwa, but they later shifted to the southwest. In the 1980s, wide expanses of the northern and eastern plains were sparsely populated, with scattered villages each huddled around an artificial lake. The Jaffna Peninsula, although a dry area, is densely populated and intensively cultivated. The southwest contains most of the people, and villages are densely clustered with little unused land. In the Central Highlands around Kandy, villagers faced with limited flat land have developed intricately terraced hillsides where they grow rice. In the 1970s and 1980s, the wet cultivation area was expanding rapidly, as the government implemented large-scale irrigation projects to restore the dry zone to agricultural productivity. In the 1980s, the area drained by the Mahaweli Ganga changed from a sparsely inhabited region to a wet rice area similar to the southwest. Through such projects, the government of Sri Lanka has planned to recreate in the dry zone the lush, irrigated landscape associated with the ancient Sinhalese civilization.
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I believe the switch slowly started to occur around the time that agriculture began (around 10,000 years ago).  Even though women likely started planting seeds, men were needed for large scale farming; capturing livestock and tending to large tracts of farm land.\n\nWith this innovation came population increases.  With larger populations to feed, more animals and farmland were needed.  So the farmers started moving in to their neighbors hunting grounds (the neighbors were likely hunter/gatherers).  The neighbors put up a fight and men were needed for fighters. So men were needed to do heavy farm work and fight the natives.\n\nOnce the neighbors lands were captured, the neighbors were either executed or enslaved.  With slavery you need men to control the new workforce.\n\nSo what resulted was this: Farmers, Solders, and Slavedrivers (or Police if you prefer).\n\nThen came religion and the priests................how could have women strapped with kids compete with all of this? In fact women were likely encouraged to have more children so there would be more workers (male babies were preferred of course).  Midwives and women practicing birth control (like the rhythm method) were chastised...............\n\n\nwhat is the person before my answer talking about?\n\nand to suppertrooper, human history only covers a short instance of human existence,  things have changed a lot since we have started recording our history, and besides that there exist today several Matriarchal cultures in the world, some of these cultures exist in the Himalaya mountains where wives (the bosses) have several husbands!\n\nand to shepen, you wrote, "The theory that all societies started matriarchal and were conquered by patriarchal societies has actually fallen by the wayside."  Nobody here is saying that "ALL" cultures were originally matriarchal.  But it is true that many that are patriarchal today were matriarchal before agriculture.  And where is it documented that these theories have fallen by the wayside?
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They couldn't. It took many years of improvements in agricultural technology before that could happen. \n\nThe most useful thing to the serfs was the invention of metal plows. Before that they used a wooden scratch plow. This was designed for tilling soil in the Mediterranean region but was horrible for tilling the hard soil further north. When they were able to make deeper furrows they were able to plant their crops deeper which protected them from the elements resulting in a greater crop yield. \n\nAnother important invention was the creation of a new kind of harness that allowed them to work the land with horses instead of oxen. The old design cut off too much of the horse's windpipe. Naturally, a suffocating horse isn't a good worker. So they used oxen which didn't suffocate but were slow and difficult to work with. With the new harness they could use faster horses and work more of the land.
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I agree with Joey.  Also, it's not isolated to India.  People move from the country into the city all over the world and this trend has happened since the dawn of the modern society.  But, to answer the question, there are always more opportunities for jobs in a city.  When living in the country, options are limited to farming and.....well, farming.
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Feasible (sp?), perhaps. Evolution to adapt to the environment will certainly take place. Obviously no one can say for sure that will happen, especially since we don't know what would genetically change.\n\nBut even so, that'll be a couple thousand years from now. Personally, I'm not concerned.
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Do you want ancient farming life or present day farming life?\nYou have to be more specific with your questions
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Read a book called Guns, Germs, and Steel or get it on video if you're lazy.  Basically the author of this book explains how geographic and climactic factors favored agriculture in Europe as their society evolved, this gave them a head start towards modern society.  Africa's climate continues to be less favorable for agriculture and industry.  And in many places their social structure remains focused on survival rather than "progress".  Thats not the whole story, but its a big piece of the puzzle.
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Pinpointing the absolute beginnings of agriculture is problematic because the transition away from purely hunter-gatherer societies, in some areas, began many thousands of years before the invention of writing. Maize was first domesticated from teosinte in the Americas around 3000-2700 BC. In these contexts lie the origins of the eight so-called founder crops of agriculture: firstly emmer and einkorn wheat, then hulled barley, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chick peas and flax. These eight crops occur more or less simultaneously on PPNB sites in this region, although the consensus is that wheat was the first to be sown and harvested on a significant scale.
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India is a country of 100 crore population and hence naturally the population of this magnitude requires a governance of far superior one, even hold it together.   Since many languages are spoken, culturally different among states but always have stood as one nation and truly bringing out 'unity in diversity'.   \nThe economy in India has a growth rate of nearing 8% and poised for a big leap from 8 to 10% in about 5 years.\n\nThe literacy rate among the villagers is ever increasing and the Government since the Independence and later as a republic, have formed 5 year plans for planned development.  The first three 5 year plans concentrated on Infrasturctural developments as Dams, hydroelectric projects, steel making plants and other electronic manufacturing all in Government sectors.  These involved huge investments and only that magnitude couldhave been implemented by Government as private cos., could not mobilise such resources.  This is the period, the country saw roads being laid between even smaller villages and electricity taken to villages and also, schools opened in villages.  these paid rich dividends for the 5th five year plans and onwards, as there was a large set of people now educated and coming out of engineering colleges and industrialisation had the real meaning with suburbs emerging for allied manufacture items in small scale and also priviate entreprise started to invest in larger plants and the economic started to shown an uptrend in 1985.  The communication revolution followed in the 1990s opened up new vistas for the villagers and benefits obtained from green revolution of 1970s in their economies found meaning in the form of using their purchasing power.\nThe governments had wisely decided policies in customs of imports and exports to see that the industries grow at the appropriate levels and the improved educational systems produced new set of individuals who could bring out their best in software industries and computerisation saw its due place in all fields in India since 1990's.\nThough Governments of different opinions have occupied the seat of power, the general well being of the people had been kept in mind by the governments as they were voted out of power if not they brought out improvements.  The present government is a coalition of different parties but their performance had been above normal and the expected performance is being met. \nNo Government on earth has performed to the satisfaction of all sections of society 100%, as preferences are not the same for all people.  The governments, so for has disproved the comment of W. Churchill that 'the country has been handed over to the men of straw of whom no trace will remain'.\nEminent economists, scientists, doctors, engineers and other professionals have proved beyond doubt, that a country has come to stay, and performing for the better for society at large.\nVR
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Technology usually changes everything despite its adherents or critics.  You can bring up the technology of agriculture.  Its really hard, back-breaking work enabled the advent of the city-state.  Hunter-gatherer societies couldn't compete with the more hegemonistic power of a society with agriculture.  Despite its disadvantage for the individual (arduous work) it profited the cultures that used it and is now the only game in town.
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*Bangladesh\nRiver : Ganges ( They call it hogli ), Bhramaputra \nMajor Occupation : Agriculture & Fishing\n*Bhutan\nMajor Occupation: Agriculture\n\n*India\nRiver : Ganges\nTourist Destination : Taj Mahal (Agara, Delhi)\nPort & city : Mumbai (Bambay)\nMajor Ocupation : Agriculture, IT is Hot among genX\nPrime Minister : Shri Manmohan Singh\n\n\n*Nepal\nPort & city : Khatmandu is a capital and Nepal being Landlocked doesn't have a port\nTourist Destination : Khatmandu\nMajor Occupation : Agriculture\nKing : Gyanendra Shah, right now its controversial\n\n*Pakistan\nRiver: Indus\nPort & city : Karachi\nMajor occupation : Agriculture\nPresident: Gen. Parvez Musharraf
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http://www.un.org/esa/agenda21/natlinfo/countr/india/eco.htm\n\nThere is quite a bit of information here.