Adherents also call upon Buddhist lamas to perform infant purification, seasonal agricultural, and funerary rites, as well as house blessing ceremonies.

Buddhist monasteries too, came to control vast estates of agricultural lands.

Before the ritsuryō system or taika reform, land was divided up between powerful families historically called gōzoku ( 豪族 ) or influential Buddhist temples, and they placed facilities called yake ( 宅 ) in those lands in order to preside over agricultural management, armament, traffic, and trades.

This town is located on the banks of the Khulm River, in the valley formed below the junction of Hindu Kush Mountains and the Central Asian Steppe ; the valley has very fertile agricultural land.

Other important castes and tribes of Rajputana were the Brahmins, who traditionally occupied the highest rank among castes, and were numerous and influential ; the Bhats, who were the keepers of secular tradition and of the genealogies ; the Hindu mercantile castes ; Jains, who comprised the majority of the merchants ; the powerful agricultural groups, such as the Jats and the Gurjars, the tribal peoples, Bhils, Meenas and Meo.

The Kurmi are a Hindu agricultural Jāti ( community ) in India.

The Nyamwezi had long been a settled agricultural and cattle-owning people, arriving on the western plateau in the 16th century, and originally living in a mosaic of small and independent chiefdoms slowly carved out by ruling dynasties which according to a Catholic missionary may have numbered over 150, each with its own councilors, elders, and court slaves.

The Communist Party subsequently loosened governmental control over citizens ' personal lives and the communes were disbanded with many peasants receiving multiple land leases, which greatly increased incentives and agricultural production.

DDT was subsequently banned for agricultural use worldwide under the Stockholm Convention, but its limited use in disease vector control continues to this day and remains controversial.

The site of an Ojibwa reserve from 1830 to 1838, Orillia subsequently prospered as an agricultural and lumbering community.

The government he subsequently led passed legislation to ensure trade unions could not be liable for damages incurred during strike action, introduced free school meals for all children, and empowered local authorities to purchase agricultural land from private landlords.

He was minister of foreign affairs during the brief Gambetta administration, and subsequently one of the vice-presidents of the chamber, serving on the budget commission and on a special industrial and agricultural inquiry.

As heir, " Mad Jack " subsequently inherited the family seat at Halston Hall, Whittington ( near Oswestry in Shropshire ), which was worth £ 60, 000 (£ 4. 3 million today ), and also received an annual income of £ 10, 000 ( over £ 716, 000 today ) from rental and agricultural assets generated by an estate of over 132, 000 acres in North Wales and Shropshire.

He was granted lands in the Laich of Moray during the 12th-century reign of King David I of Scotland, where he built a motte-and-bailey castle at Duffus on the northern shore of Loch Spynie ( this former sea-loch has subsequently been almost erased from the landscape having been successfully drained to release hundreds of acres of land for agricultural use during the improvements of the 18th and 19th centuries ).

After his graduation, Hussain subsequently joined the family business comprising large numbers of industries, textiles, agricultural farms, sugar and flour mills.

The land west of the wall was subsequently turned to agricultural uses.

Allen soon became the leading figure of the convention, and its proposal, which called for an assessment of 25 % of appraised value on residential and agricultural property and 40 % on commercial property and even higher on utilities, was essentially Allen's plan, and was subsequently approved by Tennessee voters and remains the law as of 2012 except that the U. S. Senate overrode the higher tax rate on utilities at the urging of Senator Howard Baker.

During his term of office, Governor Hubbard advocated the establishment of a reform school, the establishment of an agricultural college, the establishment of a female college, and suitable appropriations for the support of academies and colleges, nearly all of which measures were subsequently adopted.

He attended secondary school and the preparatory course at the Mackenzie in São Paulo and subsequently was admitted to the Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz of the University of São Paulo, at Piracicaba, São Paulo, where he graduated as agricultural engineer.

The Russians also expanded south, first with the transformation of the Ukrainian steppe into an agricultural heartland, and subsequently onto the fringe of the Kazakh steppes, beginning with the foundation of the fortress of Orenburg.

The resulting public concern led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 which subsequently banned the agricultural use of DDT in the US in 1972.

This was subsequently subdivided and by 1866 the town was described as a regional centre ‘ in the midst of a fine agricultural district, where wheat, peas, and potatoes are largely grown ’.

Through the riverboat trade, Warren County thrived in the agricultural market.

The industry thrived until the early 1900s when agricultural businesses began to flourish in the face of the waning glass industry.

The town dates back to approximately AD 600, and over the centuries has thrived as an agricultural centre ; as the location of Alnwick Castle and home of what were in mediaeval times the most powerful northern barons, the Earls of Northumberland ; as a staging post on the Great North Road between Edinburgh and London, and latterly as a modern rural centre cum dormitory town.

Independence thrived as a shipping point, by both rail and boat, for agricultural products and lumber until the 1950s.

Horses, cattle, sheep and wheat were the main agricultural products and a cottage industry in cloth making thrived.

Common metals trade, iconic artistic forms, and agricultural borrowing show that trans-Saharn and regional coastal connections thrived.

The area thrived with many small villages and ceremonial center because of abundant agricultural production.

Cattle ranching was primary agricultural activity, and San Mateo's hide and tallow trade thrived.

The overall agricultural production dramatically declined following four years of drought as well as the sustained fighting and instability in rural areas.

On the economic level in the 1920s and the 1930s, the agricultural sector declined in favor of industry, but even more so for the service sector.

Trade declined with the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, and agricultural estates were mostly self-sufficient.

On the one hand, agricultural funds the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union ( CAP ) is spread across more countries ( the Eastern Europe countries have a significant agricultural sector ), on the other, the structural and cohesion funds have declined inevitably due to the Spanish economic success ( since their income has progressed strongly in absolute terms ) and due to the incorporation of less developed countries, lowers the average income per capita ( or GDP per capita ), so that Spanish regions relatively less developed, have come to be in the European average or even above it.

Clover sickness in more recent times may also be linked to pollinator decline ; clovers are most efficiently pollinated by bumblebees, which have declined as a result of agricultural intensification.

Though Lysenko remained at his post in the Institute of Genetics until 1965, his influence on Soviet agricultural practice had declined by the 1950s.

Although Austrian farmers provide about 80 % of domestic food requirements, the agricultural contribution to gross domestic product ( GDP ) has declined since 1950 to less than 3 %.

Still, the number of thatched properties actually increased in the UK during the mid-1800s as agriculture expanded, but then declined again at the end of the 19th century because of agricultural recession and rural depopulation.

Apple growing was once a major agricultural industry in Lincoln, but has recently declined due to changing climate conditions and high costs of upkeep.

In the early 1970s the oil industry declined steeply and thus returned Mill Shoals to its agricultural roots.

When oil production declined, the basic agricultural economy kept the town prosperous.

During the early nineteenth century, Deerfield's role in agricultural production of the Northeast declined.

Consequently, the agricultural industries in Plainfield became less profitable, and the Population declined substantially over the following decades.

As family farming in the area declined, the agricultural services component has diminished as larger growers took their supply and services business to larger communities.

This bird has steadily declined in population throughout Western Europe due to agricultural land conversion as well as droughts in its wintering range in Africa.

Even in the extended period of economic prosperity in the 1920s, a large number of “ unit banks ” in agricultural areas failed as agricultural prices declined.

As a result, the share of large farms with more than 10 hectares declined from 27 % of agricultural land in 1945 to 3 % in 1954.

Dorestad declined around 850 and shrunk to a small agricultural site.

Rather, the increase and decline seem to be reactions to changing land use, with an increase as the number of agricultural workers declined after World War II and land fell fallow, declining again when land consolidation ( see e. g. Flurbereinigung ) had seriously depleted the number of hedgerows and similar elevated growth formerly common amidst the agricultural landscape.

Many groups continued their hunter-gatherer ways of life, although their numbers have perpetually declined partly as a result of pressure from growing agricultural and pastoral communities.

Research has indicated that a decline in the amounts men were willing to pay came as women's value as agricultural labourers declined.