Community Seed Banks to Community Seed Enterprises: experiences from Centre for Sustainable Agriculture Seed is one of the most critical input in farming. Earlier farmers used seeds saved from their own produce. With changing times, they have gradually become dependent on seed
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Andhra Pradesh has the dubious distinction of being the home for ‘Farmers’ Suicides’ in India. Out of the 2 districts identified by Planning Commission and the Prime Minister’s Relief scheme as districts being under serious agrarian distress, 16 are in Andhra Pradesh.
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G.V. Ramanjaneyulu and V. Rukmini Rao argue that the Indian agrarian crisis is due to lopsided policies in technology and support to farmers, faulty regulatory and market systems. Experiences with scaling up an ecological model of pest management in agriculture in Andhra
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11 అక్టోబర్ 2009, ఆంధ్ర జ్యోతి ఆదివారం vannela vari
Insect populations like all animal populations are gov- erned by their innate capacity to increase as influenced by various abiotic and biotic factors. The changes caused by the natural evolutionary forces are accelerated with the human in- terventions. After the changes like
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Dr. G. V. Ramanjaneyulu, and Dr. T. A. V. S. Raghunath[1] Insect populations like all animal populations are governed by their innate capacity to increase as influenced by various abiotic and biotic factors. The changes caused by the natural evolutionary forces are
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Non Pesticidal Management Learning from Experiences Peer reviewed article in Book ‘Integrated Pest Management-Innovation Development Process edited by Rajendir Peshin and Ashok Dhawan Published by Springers
Down to Earth VOL 17 ,NO 21 Thursday, March 12, 2009 An assured income for farmers will make agriculture viable and ensure food security In his budget speech finance minister Pranab Mukherjee claimed that agriculture, services, manufacturing along with trade and construction were
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Today, our farming and food is full of toxins and syn- thetic substances in the name of ‘modern agriculture’ and a thrust to increase yields at any cost. The cumulative and syn- ergistic effects of all these products cannot even be estimat-
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