Millet farming systems The paradigmatic shift from agriculture to agribusiness model, based on high input intensive farming eroded local food systems. These systems got stifled...
LEISA India Team
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June 2023 – Using water efficiently in agriculture
In India, water availability per capita is projected to decline to 1500 m3 by 2025 leading to far less water availability for agriculture. The country uses more than 80 per cent...
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Renewable Energy in Agriculture – December 2022 – Issue 24.4
READ THE MAGAZINE As consciousness and awareness on use of green energy has been rising, we also do come across a lot of initiatives on the ground, either at individual level or...
Renewable energy for self sufficiency
Decentralized renewable energy (DRE) in India is not only moving farmers towards self-sufficiency but also providing solutions that can solve major environmental issues from the...
Solar milk cooling in Bangladesh – Off-grid clean energy solutions for rural milk collection centres
PRAN, one of Bangladesh' largest food processing companies, has in recent years set up a network of dairy hubs and village milk collection centres to help them source milk from...
Scale up micro solar pumps to make farms ‘diesel free’ by 2024
Almost two-thirds of the marginal farmers who own agricultural pumps still rely on diesel/kerosene pumps. Earlier this year, the Ministry of Power, Government of India, announced...
Economic empowerment of rural women – Through small enterprises
Majority of the rural women are landless. Invariably, they work as farm labourers. Sanskriti Samvardhan Mandal, an NGO has helped women of Sagroli in Maharashtra in empowering...
Making Urban dairies more sustainable
Dependence of mankind on the non-renewable sources of energy such as coal, oil and gases is increasing worldwide. It is time to switch over to readily available, economical, and...