There are multiple agricultural development projects taking place in Sri Lanka including the UNDP Sri Lanka Community Programme, the Agro-Economic Development Project, and government projects. The UNDP Sri Lanka Community Programme is a four-year project designed to improve the management of natural resources. They hope to support the people’s livelihood and help reduce poverty in agricultural areas. They plan to do this through the reduction of deforestation and forest degradation along with replantation of forests that will benefit 10,000 households directly. They see forests and the benefits they bring to be important to the people and agricultural community of Sri Lanka [6]. The Agro-Economic Development Project is funded by the Government …show more content…
The government hopes to encourage farmers to use high yielding seeds, improve water management, and expand the extent of the land that is under cultivation. They also hope to give farmers uninterrupted access to the competitive markets in both Sri Lanka and overseas, farm modernization, assistance in reducing waste during transit, and ensuring environmental conservation throughout the island …show more content…
The program will supply more modern supplies and methodologies and how to use them to produce the most beneficial results. These machineries will use GPS and precision agriculture techniques so that the farmers will be able to collect precise data about their fields. The program will make sure that the supplies and new equipment brought in has lasting power in Sri Lanka by making the products with tools found on the island, so that if anything breaks down they will still be able to fix it. This will create more jobs in agriculture because farmers will need more people to implement these improvements and operate or take care of the new machinery. With a society that boasts a high literacy rate, we can also create jobs in Sri Lanka for people to continue to teach these things and learn more about upcoming technologies. The program can help teach people in Sri Lanka to become advisors for farmers on what to plant more of or less of depending on the market in order to reduce waste and increase
There is so much that goes into helping people in the most effective and efficient manner. I have learned that you have to expand your knowledge in every aspect of the developing country, and you have to focus on the issue that you are trying to tackle. We also have discussed in class about the corruption of people especially ones that hold power or ones that want power. And Jacqueline challenges that issue. For instance, the government maybe taking gains for itself and not for the people that it is meant to be for. Such as financial aids that might go straight to the governments instead for the people that need the aid. She also challenges the system of agricultural department in the sense that people that make the policies or distribute the money don’t take the culture of the area such as implementing polices for men even though the main workers in farming are women. And the fact that the farmers don’t have adequate resources from the government or financial support. In class, we talked about government failures in the agriculture sectors such as proper policies, market boards, and the big bias towards agriculture. The government has no system set up to lend money or help the
Agriculture plays an enormous part in having a functioning society. The farming fields in the
Reduce the cost of vegetables and fruits and bring local farmers into the equation over large corporations.
...t support for realizing intensive, high-yield, high-quality, high-efficiency, ecological and safe agricultural, its main techniques such as RFID, photo acoustic electromagnetic sensors, "3S" technology, laser scanner, etc, can make great breakthrough on agricultural product safety, agriculture information transmission, intelligent detecting, intelligent
Future changes and techniques will help utilization of additional land areas and supply more pineapples to people.
With the rise as with the technology, challenges for farmers are growing too as earlier growers had to have knowledge in agronomics, risk management, marketing their products and it has become even more competitive with the surge in new precision agricultural practices and products. The growers have to tone their IT skills in order to run their day to day life, analyze the enormous amount of data to optimize the operations and be up to date with the current trends and the competition in the market.
Our first solution is New Delhi, India. India's wheat and rice production can be increased by over 60 percent, sugarcane production by 41 per cent and cotton production by 73 per cent. The best part of this solution is that we don’t have to cut down trees or forests or we don’t even have to increase farm area! Basically, in over 157 countries, including India farms are not producing their capacities. Most importantly, in India, a study found that in wheat, the current yield was 2.49 tonnes per hectare (tph) while it could go up to 3.98 tph if proper fertilizer and water is provided. Similarly, rice yield could increase from 2.88 tph to 4...
As agriculture has become more intensive, farmers have become capable of producing higher yields using less labour and less land. Growth of the agriculture has not, however, been an unmixed blessing. It, like every other thing, has its pros and cons. Topsoil depletion, groundwater contamination, the decline of family farms, continued neglect of the living and working conditions for farm labourers, increasing costs of production, and the disintegration of economic and social conditions in rural communities. These are the cons of the new improved agriculture.
Agriculture has always been one of the pillars that our nation’s economy depends upon. As this industry grows and expands agriculture is not just farming. There’s so many different occupations that are involved with the industry that aren’t out in the fields produces food and fiber. With such an evolving industry, education is key to make sure everyone is up to speed with the newest knowledge and technology. Agricultural education, plays a huge role in educating the people within the industry along with people that benefit from it.
The global population in the year 2050 is expected to be nine billion and the agricultural demand is expected to double. With the current population already over seven billion people, there are hunger issues all around the world (“New” par. 1). How are we going to deal with food shortages in the future? With less land to work with, strains on the soils, and the lack of water, it is getting harder for the farmers of the world to support our growing population. These complications are making it harder for farmers to produce quality, affordable food. To help the crops grow better, farmers use fertilizers and chemical sprays to enhance growth and control the weeds. Farming in the United States is a relevant business because it supplies people with food, provides people with jobs maintaining the used equipment with the new equipment being much more expensive, and it provides research for more efficient ways on how to feed the world.
These key programmes are: meeting basic needs, developing our human resources, democratising the state and society, building the economy. There have been many successes with regards to implementing the Reconstruction and Development program. Three years into the program, there were many changes in the lives of the South Africans in rural areas. Free healthcare has been provided for women and children around the country. A nutrition project had reached over 12,000 schools in the country. With regards to health care, 550 clinics had been built and about 2500 were being reconstructed and improved. 1.3 million Electrical connections were made and 1 million water connections were made. In the year 2010; 2,376,675 households around South Africa were provided with houses with running water, sanitation and electricity. It is through providing these houses that job opportunities have been provided for the people. The Reconstruction and Development program aims at working together with the people to achieve the goals that have been set out. This has been achieved because the in the rural areas are the ones who are working on the project. They have a better source of income and at the same time they are working at meeting their basic needs which are housing, electricity and
Improving agricultural standards can help in producing more food and thus counter the lack of food factor. One way to improve agricultural standards is to develop the irrigation methods used. Irrigation is closely related to poverty. Irrigation benefits the poor through higher production, higher yields, lower risk of crop failure and higher year-round farm and non-farm employment. Irrigation leads to high value market-oriented agricultural production [1].
To understand why is agriculture important in the world of today, then first of all we must know what agriculture is? Agriculture is the basic material production of society, the use of land for agriculture and livestock, mining plants and animals as raw materials and labor to produce mainly food and some raw materials for industry. Agriculture is a major industry, covering many disciplines: planting, breeding and processing of agricultural products; in the broadest sense, also including forestry and fisheries. Agriculture is an important economic sector in the economy of many countries, especially in the past century , when the industry has not yet developed. Since the dawn of history, agriculture has been one of the importance means of producing
...le agricultural industry. One that challenges the stigma that farming in underdeveloped countries have low productivity despite their high efficiency.
Krishnaraj, Maithreyi. 2006. “Food Security, Agrarian Crisis and Rural Livelihoods.” Economic and Political Weekly 41 (52): 5376-5388.