DHENKANAL: Sanatan Mallick (70) does not use any modern techniques or costly pesticides for cultivating brinjals and green leafy vegetables on his one acre land.
Yet, he manages a turnover of Rs 5 to 6 lakh per annum. This progressive farmer claims he had been making profit out of his farmland without any big investment but with the help of just drain water.
Jyoti Mhapsekar has ideas on low-cost ways to reduce the world's carbon burden. As president of the Parisar Vikas women's waste-pickers cooperative in Mumbai, India, and a climate activist, she has first-hand experience in an industry that is not only one of the cheapest ways to reduce emissions.
An experiment was conducted during 2005-06 and 2006-07 in the Division of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Khalsa College, Amritsar to study the effect of combined used of farmyard manure and poultry manure with 75, 100 and 125 per cent NPK on productivity, nutrient uptake and profitability of autumn potato.
Emphasis should be given to organic farming to yield more result from agriculture, said Sri Kshetra Dharmastala Rural Development Programme (SKDRDP) Executive Director Dr L H Manjunath.
The Government of Sikkim, farmers and other stakeholders of agriculture in the State came together yesterday to urge the Union Government to extend its fertiliser subsidy support to organic fertilisers, while implementing the newly proposed direct subsidy system.
They made the demand at a public consultation on the fertiliser subsidy reforms organised by Greenpeace India.
ARTI (Appropriate Rural Technology Institute) developed a compact biogas system, which uses feedstock in the form of sugar, protein, fat or cellulose. It produces 1 kg biogas per kg of feedstock taking only about 24 hours to complete the reaction.
An investigation was carried out to study the effect of distillery effluent based pressmud compost (DEPC) on seed yield and seed quality attributes of paddy cv. Pus a Basmati-1 at Seed Production Unit, IARI, New Delhi.
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