Sustainable Agriculture

Objectives

  • To popularize agricultural practices using conservation oriented farming techniques, natural manures, bio fertilizers and bio-pesticides.

Focusing Platforms

  • Agricultural sustainability concepts, strategies, issues and constraints
  • Agricultural productivity
  • Agricultural technology machinery -Traditional, conservation oriented farming techniques
  • Agro biodiversity conservations
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Indigenous technical knowledge (ITK) practices in agriculture
  • Agriculture and water management
  • Drought, low water consumption crops
  • Biotechnology in agriculture
  • Soil solarization
  • Pesticides and soil pollution
  • Integrated pest management
  • Integrated nutrient management
  • Bio fertilizers
  • Bio pesticides
  • Agricultural waste management
  • Bio dynamic farming
  • Composting and Vermi composting
  • Rights of farmers and breeders