ATMA COVERS 5 MAJOR DEPARTMENTS
AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURE in India has a significant history. Today, India ranks second worldwide in farm output. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry andfisheries accounted for 16.6 % of the GDP in 2009, about 50 % of the total workforce.[1][2] The economic contribution of agriculture to India's GDP is steadily declining with the country's broad-based economic growth. Still, agriculture is demographically the broadest economic sector and plays a significant role in the overall socio-economic fabric of India.
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ANIMAL HUSBANDRYA large number of farmers in India depend on animal husbandry for their livelihood. In addition to supplying milk, meat, eggs,wool and hides, animals, mainly bullocks, are the major source of power for both farmers and drayers. Thus, animal husbandry plays an important role in the rural economy. The gross value of output from this sector was 358 billion (US$6.2 billion) in FY 1989, an amount that constituted about 25 percent of the total agricultural output of 1.4 trillion (US$24.1 billion).
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HORTICULTURE
Horticulture is the science, technology, and business involved in intensive plant cultivation for human use. It is practiced from the individual level in a garden up to the activities of a multinational corporation. It is very diverse in its activities, incorporating plants for food (fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, culinary herbs) and non-food crops (flowers, trees and shrubs, turf-grass, hops, medicinal herbs). It also includes related services in plant conservation, landscape restoration.
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SERICULTURESericulture, or silk farming, is the rearing of silkworms for the production of silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, Bombyx mori is the most widely used and intensively studied. The discovery of silk production B. mori dates to about 2700 BCE, although archaeological records point to silk cultivation as early as the Yangshao period (5000 – 3000 BCE).[1] By about the first half of the 1st century CE it had reached ancient Khotan,[2] and by CE 140 the practice had been established in India.[3]
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FISHERIESFISHERIES in India is a major industry in its coastal states, employing over 14 million people.
Fish production in India has increased more than tenfold since its independence in 1947. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, fish output in India doubled between 1990 and 2010.[1] The marine fish harvested in India consist of about 65 commercially important species/groups. Pelagic and midwater species contributed about 52% of the total marine fish in 2004. |