GEOG 3RW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Pearl Millet, Winter Wheat, Compost
5 May 2017
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Introduction: agriculture is the biggest user of the world"s natural resources, occupying almost. 40% of the earth"s total land area: agricultural land in south asia more than 55% of territory (arable land, under permanent crops and permanent pastures) Green revolution: agriculture has historically been unproductive in south asia, green revolution: the introduction and transfer of high-yielding (hybrid) seeds, Major farming systems exam: fao classification based on the available natural resource base and dominant. The rice-wheat farming system and southern sri lanka. Intensive wetland rice cultivation in fragmented fields with or without irrigation: bangladesh and west bengal (india), also in southern india (tamil nadu, kerala, characterised by a summer paddy crop followed by an irrigated winter wheat crop. India global producer of wheat: the system has a significant level of crop-livestock integration (estimated 120 the indo-gangetic plain to the northeast of bangladesh (and sometimes also a short spring vegetable crop)
