AGRICULTURAL

Rice production, a vital economic indicator in Cambodia's agrarian society, frequently fell far short of targets, causing severe food shortages in 1979, 1981, 1984, and 1987. The plan's 1987 target for the total area to be devoted to rice cultivation was 1.77 million hectares, but the actual area under cultivation in 1987 amounted to only 1.15 million hectares. After 1979 and through the late 1980s, the agricultural sector performed poorly. Adverse weather conditions, insufficient numbers of farm implements and of draft animals, inexperienced and incompetent personnel, security problems, and government collectivization policies all contributed to low productivity. Collectivization and solidarity groups Collectivization of the agricultural sector under the Heng Samrin regime included the formation of solidarity groups. As small aggregates of people living in the same locality, known to one another, and able to a certain extent to profit collectively from their work, ...

Agricultural Agriculture is the cultivation and breeding of animals, plants and fungi for food, fiber, biofuel, medicinal plants and other products used to sustain and enhance human life. What is agriculture as a science?  Agricultural science is a broad multidisciplinary field of biology that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture . (Veterinary science , but not animal science , is often excluded from the definition.)   What is the meaning of agricultural system? Agricultural Systems is an international journal that deals with interactions - among the components of agricultural systems , among hierarchical levels of agricultural systems , between agricultural and other land use systems , and between agricultural systems and their natural, social and economic environments. What is the meaning of farming system? A farming system is defined as a population of individu...