In-Depth Agronomy Course Material

Unit-I
Agriculture
Heritage

,Definitio
ns
HISTORY : Continuous record of past
events

HERITAGE : Inherited values carried from
one generation to other generation.

AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE : Values and
traditional practices adopted in ancient
India which are more relevant for
present day system.

, Agriculture Heritage in
•
India
Definition of Agricultural Heritage: The patterns and
practices of growing food are constantly adapting to
time, place, and local culture, but the ways of growing
are informed by heritage.


• Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems
(GIAHS), as defined by the FAO (Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UNO), which resulted that it not
only in outstanding landscapes of aesthetic beauty,
maintenance of globally significant agricultural
biodiversity resilient ecosystems and a valuable

, Need and importance for studying Agricultural
Heritage
• Our agriculture has lot of inheritedsustainable
practices passed from one generation to other
generation.
• Agriculture in India is a way of life with
ancient and traditional agricultural systems and
• India has
practices. mad
tremendo e
us
in progre
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agriculture ss t
sustainability
agriculture is o
required. f

Therefore,
attention now is
in shifting to
sustainable form