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Adaptive Farming: October 2013
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Thursday, 17 October 2013. Caritas Austria President Mr. Franz Küberl Lauds SAFBIN Efforts. Mr Franz addressing the smallholder farmers' fair. Mr Christoph addressing the function. Caritas Austria delegation visiting a paddy trial. Plot that experiments spacing for increasing the crop yield. Mr Franz giving sprayer pump to a leader of farmers' group. Adaptive Farming In Rain-Fed Areas. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Caritas Austria President Mr. Franz Küberl Lauds S. SAFBIN blog has been produced with the f...
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Adaptive Farming: FRIENDSHIP WITH THE CLIMATE
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Wednesday, 15 July 2015. FRIENDSHIP WITH THE CLIMATE. Mr Delep very proudly shares that Shantana Chakrabarti (his wife) is growing about 1,000 ducks in a small duck farm tightly squeezed in a corner of their homestead. The duck farming was not so profitable in the beginning and often the farm use to get wiped off due to seasonal diseases. They had to incur heavy loss many times in the past which mainly caused due to inadequate know-how of duck farming. Delep near his duck farm. Delep in the trial plot.
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Adaptive Farming: June 2014
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Friday, 13 June 2014. Tribal Farmers Revive Millet Cultivation for Food Security. Farmers on the Kodo millet farm during a learning meeting. Do millet, until recently, had been the staple diet for the Gond tribals of Madhya Pradesh. This hardy millet, however, lost ground to wheat and paddy. The tribal farmers of Katigahan village of Mandla district, who now realise the millet's food and nutrition potential, have teamed up with Caritas India to salvage kodo cultivation from the verge of extinction. Tradi...
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Adaptive Farming: July 2013
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Sunday, 28 July 2013. Farmers Collective-Led Approach (FCLA) – SAFBIN Perspective. Farmers are now being taught. On the so-called scientific and modern cultivation. Green revolution and its associated processes shifted the centre of agriculture from farms to laboratories which churn out general and universal theories of agriculture. Though most of these theories remain valid at macro-level; they either. Failed or short-lived. One of the fallouts of this ‘ modernizing’. Agriculture and supplanting agricu...
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Adaptive Farming: Tribal Farmers Revive Millet Cultivation for Food Security
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Friday, 13 June 2014. Tribal Farmers Revive Millet Cultivation for Food Security. Farmers on the Kodo millet farm during a learning meeting. Do millet, until recently, had been the staple diet for the Gond tribals of Madhya Pradesh. This hardy millet, however, lost ground to wheat and paddy. The tribal farmers of Katigahan village of Mandla district, who now realise the millet's food and nutrition potential, have teamed up with Caritas India to salvage kodo cultivation from the verge of extinction. Tradi...
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Adaptive Farming: March 2013
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Friday, 22 March 2013. South Asia SAFBIN Review Concludes at Sagar. The annual review and planning of Strengthening Adaptive Farming in Bangladesh India and Nepal (SAFBIN) programme concluded with a call for intensifying advocacy efforts for safeguarding the interests of smallholder farmers. Representatives from Caritas Austria, Caritas Nepal, Caritas Bangladesh, Caritas India and associate project partners attended the five-day event that was organised in New Delhi and Sagar from 11 to 16 March 2013.
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Adaptive Farming: Caritas Austria President Mr. Franz Küberl Lauds SAFBIN Efforts
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Thursday, 17 October 2013. Caritas Austria President Mr. Franz Küberl Lauds SAFBIN Efforts. Mr Franz addressing the smallholder farmers' fair. Mr Christoph addressing the function. Caritas Austria delegation visiting a paddy trial. Plot that experiments spacing for increasing the crop yield. Mr Franz giving sprayer pump to a leader of farmers' group. Adaptive Farming In Rain-Fed Areas. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Caritas Austria President Mr. Franz Küberl Lauds S. SAFBIN blog has been produced wi...
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Adaptive Farming: Farmers Collective-Led Approach (FCLA) – SAFBIN Perspective
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Sunday, 28 July 2013. Farmers Collective-Led Approach (FCLA) – SAFBIN Perspective. Farmers are now being taught. On the so-called scientific and modern cultivation. Green revolution and its associated processes shifted the centre of agriculture from farms to laboratories which churn out general and universal theories of agriculture. Though most of these theories remain valid at macro-level; they either. Failed or short-lived. One of the fallouts of this ‘ modernizing’. Agriculture and supplanting agricu...
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Adaptive Farming: June 2013
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Tuesday, 4 June 2013. SAFBIN India Conducts Vulnerability Analysis and Innovation Scouting. Farmers recording crop vulnerabilities in Sagar. A community reflection process in progress. SAFBIN India had conducted similar exercise last year as a preparatory step of Kharif trial. The process contributed to the rediscovery of. 183 traditional practices/innovations in the areas of pest management, soil health management, moisture management, storage systems and seed development and preservation.
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Adaptive Farming: April 2013
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Tuesday, 30 April 2013. Woman Farmer Defies Tradition to Prove Profitability of Wheat Cultivation. Santkumari harvesting her trial plot. The outcome of Santkumari’s wheat trial was nothing short of spectacular. Production of her farm doubled and input cost came down by 90 per cent! Not over yet, Santkumari’s experiment achieved another remarkable feat of successfully cultivating coriander as an intercrop with wheat – a practice that is unheard of in the region! To meet the challenges of. Lalla Prasad say...
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