Planting trees on bunds and wastelands generates additional biomass, serving as a source for enriching soil-health....
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Home gardens in Kerala which started as a means of subsistence have today transformed into a means of additional...
Trees for improving farm productivity
With depletion of agricultural lands and lack of irrigation facilities, agriculture in arid and semiarid regions is...
Honey Bees – Farmers best friends
Low cost beekeeping has the potential to increase and even double the yields of local crops with no extra efforts....
The Narayana Reddy Column – Living with insects
Nature is kind enough to create human beings after all its other creation so that we can enjoy and live happily and...
Insect conservation
Insects are a very much maligned group of organisms, considered capable of causing immense damage to crops. This is...
Recalling biodiversity – Farming the Agnihotra way
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Farmer friendly Owls
Owls are natural predators of rodents, of which seven species are agriculturally important pests. Conserving owls...
Honey Bees – Inevitable for our survival
Bee pollination is a primary low cost in sustainable agriculture. Bee keeping enterprise while helping to generate...