Another advantage to aid spent on agricultural development in these countries is that it also generates a greater economic “bang per buck” than does funding spent on nonagricultural initiatives.

Farm Universities in India have the mandate of teaching, research and extension in addition to policy making in the interest of agriculture and the State. Estimation of their economic contribution ...

Also, regarding GDP, labor income and overall economic importance, the state park system has a comparable impact on the agricultural sector.

After independence, the agriculture sector was Bangladesh’s main economic driving force. Its contribution to GDP was around 60 percent.

Figure 3 highlights the contribution of farm output to each state’s economy in 2016. In states where a higher proportion of the economy is based on agricultural output, the downturn in the farm ...

The Role of Agricultural Productivity in Economic Development Raymond P. Christensen and Harold T. Yee Journal of Farm Economics , pp. 1051-1061 (11 pages) ...

But as the process of economic development accelerated, many other allied occupations in farming came to be recognised as a part of agriculture.

Family farms have long generated income from agricultural tourism including U-picks, wagon rides, corn mazes and petting zoos, but contemporary agricultural tourism reflects much greater ...

The economic contribution of the agriculture and fisheries sector would remain relatively flat this year as the country reels from extreme weather conditions and persisting pests and diseases, a ...

Data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis’ Value Added by Industry series, recently released by USDA’s Economic Research Service, indicates that – on a broad level – agriculture contributed a ...