Kota Farmer Grows  Mango Round the Year

Kota Farmer Grows Mango Round the Year

Kota Farmer Grows Mango Round the Year Shrikishan Suman (55 years), a farmer from Kota, Rajasthan, has developed an innovative mango variety which is a regular and round-the-year dwarf variety of mango called Sadabahar, which is resistant to most major diseases and...
Promoting Indigenous Varieties of Rice

Promoting Indigenous Varieties of Rice

Promoting Indigenous Varieties of Rice Indigenous varieties of rice are being promoted through varieties programmes in the country by the Government of India. As many as 574 indigenous varieties of rice have been propagated and tested at more than 10,000 farmers’...
India’s Organic Food Market on a Rising Curve

India’s Organic Food Market on a Rising Curve

India’s Organic Food Market on a Rising Curve Organic farming is a sustainable agriculture system that excludes the use of synthetic inputs in farming and relies on on-farm inputs such as crop residues, farmyard manure, enriched composts, vermi-compost, oil cakes,...