Archive for January, 2004

Crop and Environment

Sunday, January 11th, 2004


Introduction

Crops play a very significant rule in changing environment. Crop is the man made culture involving biological and non-biological activities. Probably it is the product of human’s first biased act on the virgin earth. Crop is the man’s day-to-day needs obtaining from limited source, utilizing merit, labor and natural resources to ensure the continuous supply regenerating as per choice and requirement. It may be for their direct, indirect, primary, secondary and tertiary purposes, e.g. food, fodder, cash crop, medicinal, fiber, forest, agriculture, horticulture, aquatic and marine crops etc.
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Model Rural Homestead Farming – a real example of Crop Diversificaton

Sunday, January 11th, 2004

Need for a home

From the very beginning of civilization man felt his need for food and shelter and thus made home for living in and around the easily available place for food and other primary requirements of life. As a colonized and socially behaved human being they gradually put off their nomadic habit and established permanent place for living, the home.

Basic criteria for a home: They considered the following criteria for their habitat:

  1. Food
  2. Water
  3. Safety
  4. Building materials
  5. Easy movement
  6. Protection from adverse conditions

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