It was in the year 1923, in Switzerland, Dr. Rudolf Steiner, founder and promoter of Bio-Dynamic agriculture gave 8 lectures to a small group of farmers and agriculture...
Farmer’s Dairy – My LEISA Farm
Introduction With an interest in nature and a fancy for driving a tractor, I entered this field of agriculture in 1959. With no experience in farming and with an attitude of not...
On Farm Energy
L. Narayana Reddy Agriculture for ages was self reliant in terms of inputs like seed, manure, tools, energy or fuel. But during the past 80 years, the system of self-reliance...
Eco-agriculture
Introduction of green revolution technology during 1960s, necessitated use of high cost external inputs like machinery, high yielding and hybrid seeds, agro-chemicals and...
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...
The next generation farmers
During the past 10 years, rural youth, both boys and girls have started migrating to cities in search of jobs. They land up doing odd jobs like security men, office peons,...
Utilisation of neglected crops
During the past 40 – 50 years, humanity underwent a lot of changes in cultural aspects, lifestyles, clothing and even food habits in the name of modern civilization. Change is...
Preserve organic matter in the Soil
All the soils have been formed by the particles of withered rocks, followed by the gradual emergence of fungi, algae, grasses, weeds, shrubs, small trees and finally thick...
Regenerate resources to increase access
Natural resources are becoming scarce mainly due to population growth, consumeristic life styles etc. Majority of the population in the third world do not have access to even...