Livestock rearing practices have changed enormously in the last 25 years. ANTHRA in Andhra Pradesh has taken initiatives to preserve the local knowledge on livestock rearing by...
Post Harvest Management of Rice in Uttaranchal, India: Navdanya’s experience
Rice: a major Staple food for half of the world’s population The rice crop has the distinction of being the most extensively cultivated crop of India as well as of the world. The...
Post harvest management
Most of the agricultural products, grown with great care, get spoiled, due to lack of appropriate post-harvest facility like transport, processing and storage. If the storage...
Indegenous post harvest management technologies
M.Natarajan and Santha Govind The hilly communities of Kalrayan hills in Tamil Nadu, India, have predominantly tribal population who depend largely on agriculture and livestock....
Indigenous practices of post harvest storage among tribal communities of central India
Hasrat Arjjumend Central India especially Madhya Pradesh, has a large ratio of tribal population, such as, Gond, Korku, Baiga, Bharia, Bhil, Bhilala and Saharia. In general, it...
Indigenous grain storage structures
In India, a large quantity of food grains is stored in villages in different traditional storages structures and containers. It is estimated that sixty to seventy percent of food...
Indigenous rural transportation: a farmer’s innovation
Post harvest transportation of farm produce requires designing and developing vehicles with adequate knowledge on engineering and technology aspects. However, less...
Farmers’ knowledge and innovations in developing dry land agriculture
Dr. Prakash T.N.and Dr. Tejaswini Presents the experiences of documenting farmer innovations, indigenous knowledge and technologies and disseminationg them through a...