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India
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Our work in India
SFSA supports use of modern agronomic techniques to generate
income from agriculture
Each day a small truck filled with vegetables leaves MSS and
makes its way to the local market. “For the 6,000 people who
live here, the market-bound produce represents the difference
between living at subsistence levels and generating cash,” explains
Partha Das Gupta, Adviser, Syngenta Foundation India (SFI).
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Demography
| Population2 |
1,079,700,000 |
| Population less than 15 as % of total2 |
32.4 |
| Population growth, %2 |
1.5 |
| Mobile phones per 1,000 people3 |
6 |
| Telephone main lines per 1,000 people3 |
38 |
| Radios per 1,000 people4 |
120 |
| Internet users3 |
7,550,000 |
| Agriculture as % of GDP2 |
22.0 |
| Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births2 |
63 |
| % of rural population with access to safe water*3 |
82 |
| Land use, permanent crop land (hectares)3 |
2.8 |
* Data measure the
share of the population with reasonable and ready access to
adequate safe water for domestic purposes.
Data for small countries and countries in
arid and semi-arid areas are less reliable
than those for larger countries and countries
with greater rainfall.
1 Data for the year 2004
2 Data for the year 2003
3 Data for the year 2002
4 Data for the year 2001
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Sources
- (African countries) 2005 African Development Indicators, The
World Bank,
Washington DC (June 2005).
- (All countries) 2005 World Development Indicators, The World
Bank,
Washington DC (March 2005).
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