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)

History of Indian Agriculture - Historic Developments