-The Business Standard To get priority under CSR, new policy envisages major role for private sector The government has decided to accord agro Forestry equal status with agriculture by setting up a national-level board to promote national agro Forestry policy. Besides agro Forestry is proposed to be treated as priority area under Corporate Social Responsibility programmes (CSR) and thus the policy envisages a major role for the private sector. To this effect a...
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Agriculture dependent population in India grew by 50%
-PTI WASHINGTON: Agricultural population of India grew by a whopping 50 per cent between 1980 and 2011, the highest for any country during this period, followed by China with 33 per cent, while that of the United States dropped by 37 per cent as a result of large scale mechanisation, a latest report has said. "Between 1980 and 2011, the economically active agricultural populations of China and India grew by 33...
More »The wealth of forests-Sunita Narain
-The Business Standard It is an inconvenient truth that the poorest people in India live in the country's richest forests. The management of this green wealth has not brought any benefits to the locals Forests have been blacked out in the economic assessment of the country. The Economic Survey does not even list Forestry as a sector, for which accounts are prepared. Instead, it is lumped together with agriculture and fisheries. In...
More »India becomes first country to adopt an agroForestry policy -Jitendra
-Down to Earth Four-day world congress on agroForestry in Delhi pushes for accelerating growing trees on farms for sustainable agriculture and mitigating climate change impacts In what is seen as a ground-breaking move, India has become the first nation in the world to adopt an agroForestry policy. The National AgroForestry Policy, which deals with the practice of integrating trees, crops and livestock on the same plot of land, was launched February 10,...
More »GDP estimates show worst may be over
-The Hindu Agriculture and allied sectors show improvement The Central Statistical Office (CSO) released on Friday estimates of 2013-14 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, pegging it at 4.9 per cent. In 2012-13, the economy grew at 4.5 per cent, the lowest in a decade. Since the growth during the April-September 2013 was 4.6 per cent, a full-year CSO estimate of 4.9 per cent implies that the economy is expected to grow at...
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