History of Indian Agriculture – Historic Developments
History of Indian Agriculture – Historic Developments
The historic developments in agriculture during British rules and free India are:
Sr. No. | Year | Historic Developments |
1 | 1871 | Departments of Agriculture created |
2 | 1878 | Higher Education in agriculture at Coimbatore. |
3 | 1880 | Famine commission appointed. |
4 | 1890 | Higher Education in agriculture at Pune. |
5 | 1891 | Dr. J A Voekker report on improving Indian agriculture |
6 | 1900 | Forest research Institute |
7 | 1901 | First Immigration commission. |
8 | 1905 | Imperial (now Indian) Agricultural research institute at Pusa (Now at Delhi) |
9 | 1921 | Indian central cotton committee. |
10 | 1926 | Royal commission on agricultural headed by Lord Linlithgow. |
11 | 1929 | Imperial (now Indian) council of agricultural research at Delhi. |
12 | 1936 | Indian Central Jute committee. |
13 | 1942 | Department of Food created. |
14 | 1942 | Grow more food campaign. |
15 | 1944 | Indian central Sugarcane committee. |
16 | 1945 | Indian central tobacco committee. |
17 | 1946 | Directorate of planet projection & quarantine. |
18 | 1946 | Central Rice research institute. |
19 | 1947 | Food policy committee. |
20 | 1947 | Fertilizers & chemicals Travancore. |
21 | 1956 | Project for intensification of regional research on cotton, oil, seeds, millets(PIRRCOM) |
22 | 1957 | All India Coordinated maize improvement Project. |
23 | 1960 | Intensive Agriculture district programme( IADP) |
24 | 1960 | First agricultural University at Panthnagar. |
25 | 1963 | National seed corporation. |
26 | 1965 | Intensive Agriculture area programme( IAAP) |
27 | 1965 | National demonstration programme. |
28 | 1966 | High yielding Varieties programme. |
29 | 1966 | Directorate of Extension. |
30 | 1966 | Multiple cropping schemes. |
31 | 1969 | Second Immigration compassion. |
32 | 1970 | Drought prone area programme (DPAP) |
33 | 1970 | National commission on agriculture. |
34 | 1971 | All India coordinated project for dry land agriculture. |
35 | 1972 | ICRISAT |
36 | 1973 | Minikit trials programme. |
37 | 1974 | Command area development. |
38 | 1976 | Integrated Rural development programme (IRDP) |
39 | 1977 | Training & Visit system (T&V) |
40 | 1979 | National Agricultural research project (NARP) |
41 | 1982 | National bank for agriculture & Rural development (NABARD) |
42 | 1985 | National Agricultural extension project (NAEP) |
43 | 1986 | National Agricultural research project (Phase-II) |
44 | 1990 | National Agricultural Technology project (NATP) |