The origins of peasant-friendly research in Germany -- The movement for peasant-friendly plant-breeding, 1880-1905 -- Research, development and extension at the South German stations -- Success breeds trouble: the controversy over public-sector breeding, 1902-1933 -- The fate of peasant-friendly...

Green based Agricultural development strategy for emergent nation needs to focus on increasing the productivity of the soil under cultivation, with lower costs, higher efficiency of products with small or no damage to both humans and the environment. This study attempts to get together different...