The Indian Council of Agricultural Research has now been in existance for well nigh 20years.The Royal Commission on Agriculture recognised that the problem of improving agriculture was really the problem of improvig the village life and this must be studied as a whole.The council kept this point in view and on the one side it organized widespread ramification of co-ordinated research and on the other it subsidized village project schemes embracinng important aspects connected with agriculture and animal husbandry in the villages.These schemes on the one side emphasized the importance of scientific aid to agriculture and on the other were so conducted that they have led to a substancial increase in the income of the cultivator.As a matter of fact wherever these schemes have been tried the neighbouring cultivators have also been enthused to adopt many of the methods.
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