Agricultural policy

National Agro-Food Policy (2011-2020) in Agriculture Sector In Malaysia, agriculture remains an important sector and it plays role as food providers, create employments and generate earnings from export products. The development of the agricultural sector is generally governed by a comprehensive and market driven agricultural policies. The agricultural policies were formulated and have enabled the agricultural sector to grow sustainably and also contributed to economy development in Malaysia. The

Introduction Agricultural production, which used to be the mainstay of Nigerian economy, has been declining as results of crude oil discovery and subsequent increase in production and exportation of crude oil (Edo (2013). The discovery of crude oil and appreciation of oil price in the World market some years ago leads Nigerian government to abandon all other means of revenue generations, including agriculture, just to depend solely on crude oil revenue to finance most of her budgets. However, crude

The Soviet economy heavily depended on its agricultural sector. From 1929 onwards Stalin began the enforced system of state and collective farms, known as sovkhozy and kolkhozy respectively. These collectivized farms ‘soon proved both impracticable and too costly’ (Davies 1980). A number of factors contributed to the level of inefficiency of the Soviet collectivized system throughout its history, and this essay will discuss these factors and ultimately comment on the key factors responsible for these

mutually beneficial relationship between the people producing the food and nature. The family farm is the answer to many of the tough questions facing the United States today, but these small farms are going bankrupt all too often. The government’s policy on farming is the largest factor in what farms succeed, but simple economics, large corporations, and society as a whole influence the decline in family farms; small changes in these areas will help break up the huge corporate farms, keeping the small

growing urban centers. In response to new information about rates of farmland conversion, the national government placed a national moratorium on arable land conversion in 1997 and imposed stringent regulations on the encroachment of urban land on agricultural lands in the Land Management Law of 1998 (Lin and Ho 2005). There has been speculation about the efficacy of the regulations, which are challenging to enforce. Others have expressed concern that the regulations could severely distort China’s most

RESEARCH TOPIC Agricultural Education and Training on crop producing rural subsistence farmers in the area of KwaMadundube (Stanger, Kwa-Zulu Natal). 2. BACKGROUND The rapid growth of agricultural education and training began during the late 19th century in the United States of America (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_extension). Since the establishment of the democratic South African government in 1994, visionary policies and programs, strategies and Agricultural education and training

Results indicate that majority of articles published during the year 2009-2011 and focus mainly on academic education. International Information & Library Review has published greater number of articles on agriculture research. Keywords: Bangladesh Agricultural Research, mapping, Scientro-metric Introduction: The invention of agriculture is one of the greatest revolutions of human history. Agriculture is regarded as the lifeline of Economy in many countries. It is also an important social sector concerned

in average farm size, accompanied by an equally rapid decline in the number of farms and in the farm and rural populations” (Dimitri, Effland, & Conklin, 2005, p. 6). Essentially, the use of mechanization has dramatically increased the supply of agricultural products while also drastically reducing the size of the necessary workforce. “The amount of capital used per farmworker increased 15 times between 1930 and 1980, permitting a fivefold increase in the amount of land cultivated per farmer” (McConnell

However, the Government has to be sensitive to the four distributional aspects of agricultural credit. These are: (a) not much improvement in the share of small and marginal farmers . (b) decline in credit-deposit (CD) ratios of rural and semi-urban branches. (c) increase in the share of indirect credit in total agricultural credit and. (d) significant regional inequalities in credit. (Policies for Raising Agricultural Growth and Productivity in India). ( S. Mahendra Dev, Indira Gandhi Institute of

programs, and approximately 20% going to farm programs. Agriculture in the United States (US) is also affected by other legislation at the federal and local levels, including trade measures, food safety regulation, commodity trading and finance, tax policy, energy and transportation. Levels of support to US farmers has been consistently below the OECD average and shows a declining trend over time. There has also been a shift away from direct output subsidies. This includes a progressively smaller share