Zero Budget Natural Farming: Interview with Subhash Palekar

Subhash Palekar is an Indian agriculture scientist. He has been conferred with 'Padma Shree' in 2016 for his invention and extensive work on an …

Exploiting earthworms for fertilisers

Vermicampost - worm excreta - is emerging as a feasible substitute for chemical fertilisers

How to grow a food forest that will feed you everyday

What does it take to design a permaculture kitchen garden? Peter Fernandes recounts his experience of growing a food forest using permaculture in Goa

Straw manure

Too little of a good thing

The increasing demand for organic food is causing shortages and adulteration

FabIndia School Bali, Pali : How to make your school green

FabIndia School Bali, Pali is a shining example of resource efficiency. It draws 90 per cent of its electricity from solar, harvests rainwater, …

A certified problem

Indian organic movement needs aggressive and long-term government support to ensure nation-wide adoption of organic farming practices

Harming the organic farming movement

The draft regulations will dissuade small farmers from practising organic farming

Baranaja: a climate resilient farming practice

Baranaja is a mixed crop farming practice from Uttarakhand based on traditional wisdom. Millets and pulses are the main crops cultivated through …

Participatory Guarantee System brings credibility to small 'Organic' farmers

Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) is a new initiative for 'Organic' product certification in India. It helps small scale and marginal farmers, …

Organic paradox

Sikkim will be the first Indian state to go wholly organic. But lack of markets can become counterproductive

High-tech boost

Scent of the fruit king

Why farmers in Uttarakhand prefer indigenous seeds over hybrids

In Uttarakhand, farmers are slowly shifting away from hybrid seeds to traditional varieties.  They find the traditional seeds better …

Biopesticide: an organic and eco-friendly alternative to chemical pesticide

Harendra Singh Lodhiyal is a farmer who promotes sustainable and eco-friendly farming in Ramgarh block of Nainital district, Uttarakhand. He …

Can farming mean a permanent renewal of life?

For the past three decades, the practice of permaculture has found acceptance from not just rural communities in India but also from urbanites …

Waking up to old ways

Organic farming has found favour with agriculture officials and scientists.

Organic farming is the answer

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Deep-rooted benefits

Organic farming boosts biodiversity of all species

Farm tour

Organically inclined

The grapes of growth

After setting the trend of grape cultivation in Sangli district, Ganapathyrao Mhetre is all set to introduce organic farming techniques

One-man show

An Army Captain-turned-farmer traces the silk route to success

More than 30 per cent of world’s organic producers are in India

But they are mostly marginal farmers sharing only 2.59 per cent of total area under organic cultivation