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IN the previous article special attention was directed to agriculture, the first of the two main subjects dealt with by the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India; and it is perhaps worth while emphasising here that this term has a much wider significance in the tropics than in temperate regions. The employment of the people is much more uniform and less divided into watertight compartments, and that employment is in the vast majority of cases connected with the cultivation of the land. Modern industrial development is in its infancy, and even such as exists is largely concerned with the preparation and utilisation of plant products. Irrigation, with its engineering problems, is closely connected with agriculture, and especially so in such a dry country as India. Forestry, often only of late years separated ofi, has many lines of contact; either direct, as in the gathering of crops, provision for grazing, wood for implements, and leaves for manure; or indirect, in its effect on the soil, water for irrigation, and the amelioration of climate. Even fisheries overlap, whether in the supply of manure or occasionally in the ‘rotation of crops.’
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Agriculture in India1. Nature 122, 175–177 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122175a0
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