In ancient India, certain aspects of the agricultural system (From early to 600 AD)

Authors(1) :-Dr. Ajita Ojha

Agricultural production and process of any kind by fielding and seeding are called agriculture.1 Before development of Aryans in India, animal husbandry and agriculture had developed. Just as wild animals were made domestically, wild crops can be estimated to be an agricultural-born crop. Potentially wheat and wild crops have been made agricultural in the new Stone Age. First of all in India, the excavation of Mehergarh, located on the banks of the Belan river in Balochistan. From the level at which the excavation has occurred, there is evidence of seeds of wheat and barley from around 550 BC. Below this level there is a deposit which has not been excavated. It is therefore estimated that here agriculture activity was started in the eighth century AD VII. Similarly, in Rajasthan there is evidence of agriculture in the eighth or seventh millennium. In Kashmir, the cultivation of wheat and barley was around E. P. 2500. Evidence of both rice and wild rice is found in Kolidihwa in the Belan Valley in Uttar Pradesh. Its time is considered as the eighth century CE

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Dr. Ajita Ojha
73 E, Om Gayatri Nagar, Allahabad, India

  1. The word 'agriculture' used for agriculture is the sum of two words 'Agro' (field / field) and the other 'culture' (traction / plowing), visually, A.P. Ojha, '' A Fresh Approach to Agricultural Development in Ali India '', Agriculture and Aggregation Society in India: Changing Perspectives, Sampa Pradeep Kumar Kesarwani, Allahabad, 2016, p. 290; A.P. Ojha, 'Agriculture as Reflected in the Dharmashastra Tradition', History and Agriculture in India, Sampa Lallanji Gopal and V.C. Srivastava, New Delhi, 2008, p. 469
  2. Same, pg 290
  3. Same, pg 290
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  6. Same, part-1, pg 247
  7. Same, p203
  8. Rig Veda, 10.23; 10.101.34; 10.48.7; 10.94.13
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  18. Yagnavalkya Smriti, 2.29
  19. Narada Smriti, 1.87, 91

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Published in : Volume 3 | Issue 7 | September-October 2017
Date of Publication : 2017-10-31
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 488-494
Manuscript Number : IJSRST173789
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X

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Dr. Ajita Ojha, " In ancient India, certain aspects of the agricultural system (From early to 600 AD)", International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Volume 3, Issue 7, pp.488-494, September-October-2017.
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