New Delhi, April 6 -- In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists have unlocked the mystery behind India's agricultural beginnings in the Central Ganga Plain, India's food basket, using grass pollens and distinguishing between pollen from cultivated crops and wild grass.
''The study provides a window into how human societies shaped the landscape over millennia. It also provides India with its first clear, region-specific scientific tool to trace the origins of agriculture and human settlement with much greater precision,'' an official spokesman said here on Monday.
This is the first time such an analogue has been developed using indigenous data from the Ganga Plain, enabling scientists to reconstruct the region's agricultural past based on l...