Food Crops
A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. Crops may refer either to the harvested parts or to the harvest in a more refined state. Most crops are cultivated in agriculture or aquaculture. A crop may include macroscopic fungus (e.g. mushrooms), or alga. Most crops are harvested as food for humans or fodder for livestock. Some crops are gathered from the wild (including intensive gathering, e.g. ginseng). Important non-food crops include horticulture, floriculture and industrial crops. Horticulture crops include plants used for other crops (e.g. fruit trees). Floriculture crops …
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ICRIER: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations · 2 May 2024 English
In this context, the objective of the present study is to estimate the harvest and postharvest losses of wheat, paddy, maize, and soybean in India and to trace the determinants …
these states. In Madhya Pradesh, we picked four food crops (wheat, paddy, maize, and soybean). In Punjab … our loss estimation process for all selected food crops. 9 | REDUCING POST-HARVEST LOSSES IN INDIA 1 … these states. In Madhya Pradesh, we picked four food crops (wheat, paddy, maize, and soybean). In Punjab … and storage of essential commodities (including food crops, oilseeds, jute, seed, etc.) and control hoarding …
RIS: Research and Information System for Developing Countries · 25 April 2024 English
Emerging Scenario and the Need for Renewed Attention to the Agriculture Sector in the BIMSTEC Region In spite of its declining share in the GDP, agriculture continues to remain a …
countries like India are resisting introduction of GM food crops. BT Brinjal has been already adopted in Bangladesh … Bangladesh in introducing GM food crops, for there are many eligible other food crops on which research and …
World Bank Group · 25 April 2024 English
The conflict in the Middle East has been exerting upward pressures on prices of key commodities, notably oil and gold. High commodity prices, despite relatively subdued global GDP growth, suggest …
moderating El Niño conditions, primarily affecting food crops. Accordingly, food commodity prices are set …
World Bank Group · 25 April 2024 English
The conflict in the Middle East has been exerting upward pressures on prices of key commodities, notably oil and gold. High commodity prices, despite relatively subdued global GDP growth, suggest …
moderating El Niño conditions, primarily affecting food crops. Accordingly, food commodity prices are set …
CSEP: Centre for Social and Economic Progress · 25 April 2024 English
The Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP) conducts in-depth, policy-relevant research and provides evidence- based recommendations to the challenges facing India and the world. [...] CSEP is based in …
land will reduce the share of land available for food crops from Efforts are being made to address some of … application of A reduction in land available for food crops on organically enhanced fertilisers to inhibit …
World Bank Group · 24 April 2024 English
scenarios predict that, without action, yields for food crops are projected to decline about 10 percent by …
World Bank Group · 22 April 2024 English
crops and food crops. In the Northern and Eastern Desert Pastoral Zone, the main food crops are wheat … Zone, wheat, sorghum, and maize are grown as food crops, while wheat, maize, sorghum, and qat are grown …
World Bank Group · 22 April 2024 English
involves the cultivation of a wide range of food crops (cassava, maize, millet, cashew, rubber, ginger … rearing of livestock. Production output of many food crops dwindled over the last few years owing to many …
ICRIER: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations · 19 April 2024 English
As applied nutrients, leads to nutrient per the latest estimates, about 1/3rd of the mining, i.e., depletion of the organic total land area and about 1/5th of the matter in …
certain is most pressing. Precision nutrients, the food crops agriculture techniques such as no- cultivated … biodiversity by 2030, reducing them by at 22). Amongst food crops, rice was the least USD 500 billion per year … Punjab, Haryana, and Bihar. able to consume other food-crops, and In Western Uttar-Pradesh, mere one thus …
World Bank Group · 17 April 2024 English
With nearly 420 million children reached worldwide, school meals are among the largest-scale social protection interventions. This paper traces the evolution of school meals programs globally, examines the empirical evidence …
food reserves system. • Promotion of specific food crops. OTHER Program is very limited or suspended …
