Organic Farming, Sustainable Agriculture and Green Marketing – Dr. A. N. Sarkar

Organic Farming

Abstract Organic farming is universally known to be a specialized form of farming practices, involving selected application of organic  substrates such as manures, crop residues, green manuring crops, earthworm casts (vermiculture) etc. to enrich soil with adequate plant nutrients, and provide good soil structure and soil health with the aim of creating a sustainable form … Read more

Useful Android Mobile Applications for Agriculture, Farming Sector #1

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Horticultural Crops 2011-12 – The data refers to number of horticultural crops varieties released on national level. The horticultural crops includes varieties released from vegetables, fruits, ornamental, medicinal and aromatic, plantation and spice crops. Download Link Plant Anatomy – This apps provides information about plant anatomy. Download Link Daily Market Prices – The data refers … Read more

Android applications for Farming – Oil Seeds & Fibre Crops Information #1

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OilSeeds_Tamil – This app provides information about various seeds namely Gingelly, Sunflower and Groundnut in Tamil language. This app deals with Fertilizer, Foliar application, Isolation,etc and also provides important techniques to improve Quality Seed Production like Harvest, Threshing, Seed grading etc. Download Link For OilSeeds application in English Version – Download Link Oilseeds at a … Read more

Android applications for Agriculture – Vegetable Information #1

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Vegetable Crops – This app provides information about vegetable crops like Tomato, Chillies, Bhendi, Brinjal, Ash Gourd, Ribbed Gourd, Bitter Gourd, Pumpkin, Onion(Small) and Onion(Bellary). This app deals with seed production, volunteers, right season for raising seed crop, nursery preparation,etc and also provides important techniques to improve Quality Seed Production like Harvest, Seed treatment, Seed … Read more

Android applications for Agriculture – Food Grains Information #1

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Rice Crop FAQ’S – This app can be used to access Frequently Asked Questions of Rice farming under various disciplines namely Agronomy, Economics, Pathology etc. It also provides information related to crop growth stages like flowering stage, nursery stage, ripening stage etc. Download Link Rice Vocabulary – This app is a compendium of rice related … Read more

Open Call for Artists, Farmers and Community project Initiators by Artist Shweta Bhattad

Artist will ask these question to collaborating farmer in reference to hints given below 1. What is your dream ? Hint : Ask yourself and answer it, then ask collaborating farmer about his dreams.   2. What do you think about Agriculture ? As an Art with creativity Hint:- Multiplication of grains and filling green … Read more

I Have A Dream Project, Global Art-Farming-Peace project by Artist Shweta Bhattad

I am Shweta Bhattad, visual Artist from India. I am invited for Vancouver Biennale 2014-2016. The broader theme of this Biennale is Martin Luther’s King’s speech “I have a dream”. I went to residency for Vancouver Biennale at Squamish in month of July 2014. For this Biennale programme I proposed Global Art Farming Peace Project and named the project … Read more

Installing FarmOS on Linux/Ubuntu Desktop

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The below steps describes, how to install the farmos on the Linux Ubuntu Desktop. 1. Download the source from github as, $ git clone https://github.com/farmier/farm.git farmos-github 2. now use drush to download entire source, as $ cd farmos-github $ drush make build-farm.make farmos Note : you may need to install “drush” as “sudo apt-get install drush” 3. … Read more

Mitti – Back to the roots, A film on agrarian crisis and Importance of traditional organic farming by Farmers’ Champions

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Mitti-back to roots, is a docudrama film based on several real life incidences from across the country.  The film is made in hindi and dubbed into other languages. Mitti is the story of a young agricultural scientist ‘Ekta’ who tries understand the crisis in farm sector and explores alternative paths. This is story of a village … Read more