Subhadra Khaperde

Barriers to organic farming: Experience of Kansari Organics

Government needs to switch subsidies and investments from chemical agriculture to the promotion of sustainable agriculture

Ananya Mukerji

Posted on 15 Aug, 2021 09:15 PM

Agriculture in India directly or indirectly provides livelihoods to 60% of the population and so the problems of this sector are most relevant for the country’s overall development and have to be effectively addressed.

A farmer harvests the season's cauliflower crop near Kullu town, Himachal Pradesh (Image: Neil Palmer, CIAT; Wikimedia Commons)

The need for survival edge technology

Decentralised communitarian technology can mitigate the water crises facing us today.

Posted on 02 Jul, 2019 08:58 PM

Decentralised and communitarian efforts in soil and water conservation, sustainable agriculture, afforestation and renewable energy need extensive investment, if the human race is to survive the deepening water, food, energy and climate crises.

Digging an open well that had some water at lesser depths ranging from 5-10 m using local technology in which a motor run winch draws up the dug up mud from the well bottom. (Image: Rahul Banerjee)

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