Organic farming is much more than just growing crops without the addition of chemical fertilizers and synthetic chemical pesticides, but a holistic system of agriculture, which still maintains and improves the economic sustainability and ecological balance not generating-toxic, healthy and tasty food or medicine or dye with natural fragrance and color. In today’s world, most [...]
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Capacity Building and E.extension for Enhancing Agriculture Productivity in India
January 28th, 2010 
admin Abstract The green revolution, white and blue gave us food security. The high yield varieties and new technologies were webbed with chemical farming. Even today we have critical gaps in the productivity of foodgrains between technology with farms and farming practices. The chemical farming has led to soil degradation, water pollution, soil erosion and salinity. [...]
Employment Potential for Agricultural and Allied Graduate as Self Employers
January 28th, 2010 admin Introduction In recent years, growth in agriculture of the few universities in 1940 to over 40 have increased the 2004th student enrollment has increased by only half a mile to nearly 20 miles of the same period. As today we have 260 schools in the qualifications to teach in India in agriculture alone. They consist [...]
Bringing the Culture Back in Agriculture
January 14th, 2010 admin After the turn of the last century there were many experiments with cultured monkey. There should always only one field crop, like corn or wheat. This is a principle which is against nature, working with ecosystem based on synergy and the whole complex, in which plants work together and support each other. Some plants root [...]
Buying Organic is Well Worth the Cost even When Times are Tough
January 12th, 2010 admin Organic food is now the fastest-growing segment of U.S. agriculture. In 2007, the value of retail sales of organic foods was estimated at more than 20 billion U.S. dollars. According to the Food Marketing Institute, more than half of Americans buy organic food product at least once a month. The industry is expected to be [...]