Agriculture

Cropping Patterns and Major Crops in different States of India

A diversity of food and non-food crops are grown in various parts of the country depending upon several factors such as soil, climate and cultivation practices. Major crops grown in India are rice, wheat, millets, pulses, tea, coffee, sugarcane, oil seeds, cotton and jute, etc. Major Crops in India divided into Four Categories : 1. […]

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How India can be Modernize Agriculture & Improve Productivity

India’s greatest agriculture scientists and father of India’s Green Revolution, Dr. M S Swaminathan has warned that the country could face crisis of agricultural productivity if farming is neglected and use of obsolete technology. The future belongs to nations with grains and not guns says Dr. Swaminathan. Adoption of suitable modernize agriculture and improve productivity

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Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) in India

What is ZBNF ? According to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), “ZBNF is an emerging set of agricultural practice redesigned to reduce farmers’ direct costs (hence “zero budget”) while enhancing yields and farm health through the use of non-chemical inputs sourced locally (“natural farming”).” Indian Finance Minister in the Budget speech said, “We need to

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