Water scarcity is a common problem during the past 10 years both for irrigation and household consumption due to lack of sufficient rains, rapid growth of population and water...
Polyculture of animal husbandry
For ages, farmers in India integrated agriculture with many interrelated activities like tree cropping, livestock production like cattle, sheep, goat, piggery, poultry,...
WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE
The role of women in agriculture is considered very important from early times. It is women who started crop cultivation around their dwellings when they found their husbands...
SRI method of Paddy cultivation
During 1980 – 1985 there was an acute scarcity for water in Madagascar (West Africa). Dr. Henri-de-Laulani a Ph.D. holder in Agricultural Sciences, who was working as a Baptist...
RURAL COMMUNICATION
Even after 55 years of independence various government projects and schemes have not yet reached the rural population due to lack of proper communication. Only a few people with...
Farmer to farmer information sharing .. most effective
Many innovations by agricultural scientists and dynamic farmers are not reaching the actual farmers or targeted groups due to lack of communication. So the benefits of such...
Tackle globalisation by minimsing production costs
Globalisation has caused anxiety among farmers in marketing their farm products facing the competition posed by the developed countries dumping their agricultural products in the...
Farmers’ role in combating Deforestation
During the last 40 years as a result of deforestation amount of rainfall has come down, streams and rivers have dried up, even the underground water table is falling fast, which...