Agriculture in Jammu and Kashmir (A Comparative and Analytical Study)

About the Book The wide range of crops which have long been raised in most beautiful place of the world, their historical background, physiological and geomorphologic controls have been thoroughly analyzed in this book.. Their social, medicinal (therapeutic) and economic validity and the tendency of increase and decrease in their production under varying circumstances are the essentials of the study. The scientific and social repositories of several agricultural activities which have been intertwined between traditions and technologies have been explored while rubbing them against such developments in different parts of the world.

The technological developments, Government policies and the behavior of the farmers and their responses and application in actual agricultural scenario have also been discussed. A future prospectus has been explored on the basis of the overall tendencies in the rapidly changing and progressing agro scientific activities.

About the Author Showkat Ahmad Ganai was born in 1981 in the historical village Chandhara. about 20 miles from Srinagar, the birth place of the last queen and famous poetess of Kashmir, Habba Khatoon. He belongs to an Agrarian family and has a close association with the saffron cultivation in his home town. Pampore.

After completing his graduation from the Kashmir University in 2003, he took up teaching profession. Simultaneously, he completed his Masters Degree in Political Science through IGNOU and his B.Ed. through Kashmir University. He has been writing poetry and prose in Kashmiri, Urdu and English..

His first publication, Kashmir: Accession and its Manipulation, a political analysis has been published by Gulshan Books in 2009.

The author recently was a co-presenter to an International Conference on Thematic Issues (Human Right Abuse) held in Dhaka.

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