by Team LEISA India | Aug 21, 2020 | Editorial
Digital Agriculture Increasing population, degrading natural resources and climate change are some of the challenging issues facing agriculture.The consequences are increased uncertainties of farm livelihoods, productivity and incomes; increasing challenges of hunger,...
by Team LEISA India | Dec 30, 2019 | Editorial
Nurture Plants, Save the planet The planet cannot survive without plants. Plants constitute majority of food sources and play an important role in providing clean air. But we seem to have ignored or forgotten this simple truth, in our journey towards building a...
by Team LEISA India | Sep 27, 2019 | Editorial
About 80 percent of the world’s food is produced by small farmers or family farmers, for whom farming is a way of life. Traditionally, farming was localized, meeting several needs of the household providing food, fodder, fuel, besides employment and small incomes. In...
by Team LEISA India | Jun 27, 2019 | 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 caught the nation’s attention, not only for wasting a resource which has a potential to...
by Team LEISA India | Sep 28, 2018 | Editorial
Smallholders, the food providers of the nation, are becoming increasingly vulnerable to a series of challenges like the changing climate, markets, finance, input availability etc. These challenges have made crop production more risky and uncertain in already fragile...
by Team LEISA India | Jul 31, 2018 | Editorial
Small holder family farmers, particularly in the fragile ecosystems have been traditionally managing crops, using biological means. While a majority of the farmers shifted to commercial methods of farming involving high chemical use, some among them still continue to...
