by Team LEISA India | Jan 2, 2019 | Articles, Education, Farmer Innovations
Aquaculture is recognized as a very efficient form of animal production system. Improvement in fish yield while sustaining the natural resources, depends to a great extent on the appropriate husbandry practices adopted. Aquaculture is a highly diverse production...
by Team LEISA India | Jan 2, 2019 | Articles, Education, Farmer Innovations
In remote hilly regions of the country, small land holders are still not able to make a remunerative living out of farming owing to poor access to markets. Farmers in the remote hilly region of Chakrata area in Dehradun district of Uttarakhand have evolved a unique...
by Team LEISA India | Jan 2, 2019 | Articles, Education, Farmer Innovations
Farmers traditional practice with a little adaptation has resulted in enhancing the quality and quantity of apple production in Jumla district in Nepal. This low-cost technology has been most helpful for those farming communities with lesser water resources. Valuing...
by Team LEISA India | Jan 2, 2019 | Articles, Education, Farmer Innovations
Sutapa De, Saikat Pal and Purnaba Dasgupta Severe water logging resulting in soil salinity has made crop cultivation difficult for farmers in Sunderbans region. Five Square model emerged as an innovative solution which farmers adopted and reaped good benefits....
by Team LEISA India | Jan 2, 2019 | Articles, Education, Farmer Innovations
Success in farming mainly depends on the understanding of the specificity of farming systems and their dynamic interaction with local agroecological factors. Small scale farmers from time immemorial evolved a lot of techniques to defend the adversities in farming....
by Team LEISA India | Jan 2, 2019 | Agroecology, Articles
It is widely agreed that today’s global agriculture system is a social and environmental failure. Business as usual is no longer an option: biodiversity loss and nitrogen pollution are exceeding planetary limits, and catastrophic risks of climate change demand...