Sustainable and Endogenous Approach
Agriculture Scenario in IndiaDuring my professional experience in agricultural field, I have been trying to understand and analyze the factors affecting the upliftment of rural community and urban...
View ArticleIndigenous Variety
WHAT IS INDIGENOUS VARIETY ?What is indigenous seed variety for a farmer or from the agricultural point of view? Does it mean that the variety is from the same country? From the same region he belongs...
View ArticleDevelopment Approaches in Agricultural Technologies
Sustainability and endogenous development oriented policies are the key to make agriculture a viable enterprise. Technology has to be adaptable to the local/prevailing agro climatic, soil, water and...
View ArticleMarket Driven Agriculture
Is Market Driven Production System Sustainable in Agriculture!Post green revolution, agriculture is becoming more and more complicated and technology savvy enterprise. Technology has made vast...
View ArticleCan Production Driven Market Sustain Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods?
Market driven agricultural economy particularly after globalization, is showing the signs of severe fatigue on the rural faces in India. Market instabilities are a result of more centralized and long...
View ArticleEssential Components of Sustainable Farming
Indigenous variety: It is evolved over a number of decades and centuries in an agro climatic region. It is easily adaptable, responsive to low input conditions, tolerant to drought, pests and diseases....
View ArticleEco-friendly Soil Nutrient Management
When the first fertilizer was manufactured in the 19th century, scientific community was euphoric that it would be the panacea for all the ills plaguing agriculture in the world. Undoubtedly, synthetic...
View ArticleCan Sustainable Agriculture feed the Population !
With the introduction of green revolution technologies, the food grain production has gone up manifold. Modern, high yielding varieties supported by technologies such as fertilizers, pesticides,...
View ArticleClimate Change Challenges and Sustainable Development
The models of modern economic development are crumbling, worldwide. There are obvious reasons for the collapse of such systems. Centralized development methods, industrialization as means of...
View ArticleCultures and Climate Change
Most parts of North Karnataka are dry lands with scanty rainfall. Farmers take hardly one crop in a year as rain fed farming. As the soils are deep black, good moisture holding capacity covers for the...
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