Viable biological options that boost on-farm resource recycling and integrated management have great promise in minimizing threats of climate change on crop plants, losses due to...
LEISA India Team
LEISA India's internal team of scientists, agriculturists, researchers and scholars.
Bhoomi Sudha – Recycling biomass for enhanced soil fertility
Farmers in Khunti and Ranchi districts in Jharkhand are benefitting from including biomass yielding plants in their fruit orchards. Mulching of biomass in the plant basins was...
Editorial
With increases in food production crop residues are also increasing. It is estimated that about 500 Mt of crop residues are generated in India annually. Burning crop residue has...
Recycling Resources – Path to sustainable living
Promotion of sustainable agro ecological practices through recycling and reuse of resources not only reduce dependency on external sources, but also minimises waste. On farm...
Sustainable production and collective marketing – A way out for farmers
Krishna Rai is an exemplary farmer and an innovative entrepreneur. His farm which carpets over a hectare of land is a magnificent model of a “forest ecosystem”, in a sense that,...
June 2019 – Recycling resources on agroecological farms
Agroecological practices support biological processes that drive the recycling of nutrients, biomass and water within production systems. By closing cycles, recycling leads to...
Integrated Fish Farming – A tri-commodity approach
With ample water resources, the communities in hilly regions of Uttarakhand found an alternative livelihood supplementing agriculture. Village communities found it remunerative...
Small scale aquaculture – Boosting rural livelihoods
Farmers in Orissa adopted small scale aquaculture by participating in the Aquaculture Field Schools. They also took up fish culture in community resources, enhancing fish...
Sustainable agro-aquaculture farming
Deepjyoti Baruah, Ravindra Posti, K. Kunal, P.A. Ganie, D. Sarma and Gyati Rinyo Integration of rice and fish is a low-cost sustainable practice of Apatani tribes in Arunachal...