Madhu.Ramakrishnan Directly or indirectly all food comes from soil. If it is not a living system, it can't continuously produce. Just as any other living thing, soil possesses...
Farmers diary – Ecological Pest Management
Madhu Ramakrisnan The nature is ours, but not ours alone. If there is a way to protect his agricultural produces from pests, no farmer will like to kill the pests. Fukoka (The...
Green manuring- the best way to improve soil health
Conditions were not very encouraging when I started farming in the year 1998 – water shortage, pest and disease attack, rising costs of cultivation and decreasing yields and...
Farmers diary : Vertical agriculture
In India, farmers born after 1950 will be puzzled if they are told that crops can be raised without the use of manmade chemical fertilizers and pesticides. But that is what have...
Transitioning to LEISA
Though I was born in a farming community, I did not take up to farming initially, but served the government department. I resigned my job and took up farming in the 1970s. It was...
Farmers diary : Novel method of raising Chow-chow seedlings
S. Ramachandrappa I am farming since 45 years. High cost of inputs and many side affects of chemicals made me to turn to organic way of farming. I manage about 6 acres of land...
My LEISA Farm
Kamat S.S. Children of farmers educated in rural government vernacular schools migrating to urban areas in search of white collared jobs is considered normal. But being a son...