Besides yield, nutrition and income, a family farmer harvests several other benefits from an agroecologically designed farm. So, we need to have a different set of parameters to...
Indigenous farming system of Adi tribes: Source of food, nutrition and medicine
Hill farming system involves diverse crops and their varieties, medicinal plants, forest species, practiced by the Adi tribes of Arunachal Pradesh. These tribal farmers are...
Diversified Farming Systems
Agriculture is being neglected to the maximum by the union and state governments because the revenue they receive, is very meager compared to other sectors like information...
Diversified Farming Systems – Learning from past to move into future
Ardhendu Chatterjee During the last 50 years we have been losing diversity at an alarming rate, both in nature and in culture, including agriculture. If it was for clearing...
Food sufficiency through diversified farming A case of a small farmer
Anita Singh Small land holders can be self sustainable. This was proved by Shri. Santu, a small farmer in Gorakhpur, who started making a decent living from farming by increasing...
Small farmers move towards diversification
N. Lalitha, J. Diraviam and Arun Balamatti Adding various components on to a farm and integrating them has helped small farmers in Tamil Nadu reap rich harvests. The bio...