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Indian Farming January-February 1951

1951

RA J END R A PR ASA D President of the Indian Republic addressing a joint session of t he annual meeting of the Go vernirg Body of the Indian Council of Agricilltural Research and the Convocation of the Indan Agricultural Research Institute in New Delhi on February 5 1951. [...] Bearing these in mind any rsearch which helps us to increase the production of food is of the highest value to us; and whatever the line of research may be—whether it is agricultural engneering soil-chemistry improvement in the quality and breed of plants or prevention 4n4 destruction of pests—you have to bear these fundamental limitations of the application of the results of research. [...] cent article Datar Singli4 has stated that although India possesses one-third of the total cattle population of the world the yield of the milk per cow in India is only of the order of 700 lb. [...] as the `seed of known superior heredity and quality verified by and traceable -through the periodic inspection and records of an impartial and officially recognized agency': Most of the advanced countries have dveloped quite efficient and elaborate seetesting organisations through the help of scientists the respective governments the seed merchants and the farmers and prmulgated laws p [...] The percentages of seeds of different catgories calculated on the basis of total number of seeds and of total weight of the sample are given in the Table the small letter a h c d e f g it representing the different groups.
agriculture environment
Pages
105
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120055
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-x unknown view
Problem of Agricultural Research
1-3 unknown view
Agricultural and Economic Aspects of ‘Soya Milk’ Production
4-7 R. Rajagopalan, S. S. De view
Seed-Testing of Samples of Foodgrains
8-iv D. K. Mukherji view
A Local Breed of Fowl in Assam
15-15 B. P. Barkakati view
Box Cultivation of Vegetables
16-21 R. S. Roy, Bishwajit Choudhury view
Fishing Methods for Chilka Mullets
22-25 M. Devasundaram view
Compost Development Work in India
26-27 C. N. Acharya view
The Problem of Soil Erosion
28-30 B. N. Handa, Madan Bawa view
What the Scientists are doing
31-31 unknown view
You Ask we Answer
32-32 unknown view
What’s doing in All-India
33-47 unknown view
Across the Borders
48-50 Harold Tempany view
Home Gleanings
51-55 S. V. Ganapati, P. I. Chacko view
Agriculture (The Science and Practice of British Farming)
56-56 unknown view
Crop Management and Soil Conservation
56-57 unknown view
Review of International Commodity Problems 1949
57-57 unknown view
Rural Electrification Engineering
58-58 unknown view
Farmer and Stock-Breeder Yearbook 1950
58-59 unknown view
Village A B C
59-59 unknown view
The Production of Field Crops
60-60 unknown view
News and Views
61-72 unknown view

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