by Team LEISA India | Jan 8, 2016 | Agroecology, Articles, Biodiversity
Low cost beekeeping has the potential to increase and even double the yields of local crops with no extra efforts. Recognising this fact, Under The Mango Tree (UTMT) promoted indigenous bee keeping among the small farmers in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh... by Team LEISA India | Jan 8, 2016 | Agroecology, Articles, Biodiversity, Farmer's Diary
Nature is kind enough to create human beings after all its other creation so that we can enjoy and live happily and easily. But owing to our memory and thinking capacities, we became selfish and lazy and wanted to have everything for ourselves. Due to our excessive... 
by Team LEISA India | Jan 8, 2016 | Agroecology, Articles, Biodiversity
Insects are a very much maligned group of organisms, considered capable of causing immense damage to crops. This is largely due to the way in which we farm, creating attractive monocultures of lush crops and failing to exploit the natural regulatory mechanisms that... by Team LEISA India | Jan 8, 2016 | Agroecology, Articles, Biodiversity, Farmer's Diary
Farmers Diary > Though I am not a farmer by birth, my journey as a farmer, rather as a sericulturist began in the year 1996. We had bought a 2 acre farm, not to do farming, but to start a weaving mill for manufacturing sarees, an ancestral business which was then... 
by Team LEISA India | Jan 8, 2016 | Agroecology, Articles, Biodiversity
Owls are natural predators of rodents, of which seven species are agriculturally important pests. Conserving owls will not only result in better rodent control preventing huge crop losses, but will also prevent indiscriminate chemical use, thus preserving the... by Team LEISA India | Jan 8, 2016 | Agroecology, Articles, Biodiversity
Bee pollination is a primary low cost in sustainable agriculture. Bee keeping enterprise while helping to generate income for farmers will also serve as a provider of pollination services to crops. While a person having a unit of 25 to 50 bee colonies can earn his...