Agriculture

Aquaponics Meaning:                          Aquaponics is a agricultural system which combines raising aquatic animals i.e., snails, fish, crayfish or prawns. With a less soil media plants are growing in water. which is also known as combines cultivation agriculture with hydroponics in symbolic environment.  Typical Component included in Aquaponics: 1. Rearing Tank: These tanks are used for fish to feed and raise. 2. Settling basin: Used to catch uneaten food and detached biofilms. 3. Biofilter: Where ammonia into nitrates can grow and convert with the help of nitrification bacteria. 4. Hydroponics subsystem:  Where plants are grown by absorbing excess nutrients from the water. 5. Sump:  It is a lowest point in which it is pumped back to the rearing tanks with the help of flowing water. Live Components: 1. Plants:                    ...

Subsistence Farming Farming is done to satisfy the basic needs of the farmer and his family without any profit from the farming. Features  Most of crop production is consumed by the farmers and families. Subsistence farming is done in small land and use of primitive tools. In this farming farmer will not use fertilizer and high yielding variety of seeds as they are poor. There is no require of human labour In this type of farming we need ordinary tools of agriculture. Advantages Subsistence farming is Cheapest farming, it not require huge investment. In subsistence farming hiring labour is not required.  It provide food for the family Disadvantages Subsistence farming is fully depend on the rain to do well.  It is limited production of the crops In subsistence farming there is no financial profit. This framing is not attractive for the investors to invest in the farming.  Commercial Farming Commercial farming is all about the growing of crops and/or the rearing of do...

  Intensive Farming:         Intensive farming is also known as Intensive agriculture. It is a type of agriculture technique of cultivation practicing with lot of labour and capital which is used to increase the  agricultural produce or yields. By using heavy pesticides and chemical fertilizers.           For application of fertilizer, insecticide, fungicides, herbicides to grow crops we need large number of labours and capital. the most important we need is capital for maintenance of high efficiency machinery for cultivating, harvesting, irrigation equipment where required as well planting. Techniques and Technologies: Live Stock      a . Pasture: Improvement in the soil and grass to increase in the per unit inputs in agricultural production of live stock system.     b. Rotational grazing:  I t is the practice to feed on growing herbage live stock between land covered with gras...

Introduction of Agriculture Agriculture is also known as "farming". It is the backbone of human civilization. The word agriculture derived from Middle English adaptation of Latin agricultura, from ager, "field", and cultura, "cultivation" or "growing". Agriculture is the art and science or practice of farming of cultivating the soil, growing crops and raising domesticated animals.  The major agricultural products can be broadly grouped into foods, fibers, medicine and raw materials. Food classes include grains, vegetables, fruits, oils, meat, milk, fungi and eggs. Over one-third of the world's workers are employed in agriculture sector. Indian Agriculture. Indian agriculture started on 9000 BCE as a result of early cultivation of plants, and domestication of  animals. In India there two monsoons that leads to two harvests in one year. Indian products soon reached the world via existing trading networks and foreign crops introduced in India. I...

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