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he management practices for sustainable agriculture virtually differ from those of modern agriculture. The important steps in sustainable agriculture are conservation of crop diversity, conservational tillage, watershed management, efficient water management, integrated nutrient management, integrated weed management integrated pest management and crop diversification. Generally the management practices in sustainable agriculture are aimed at achieving sustainable production with limited or no chemical inputs with priority to farm-grown inputs without pollution and minimum damage to natural resource base. Conservation of crop diversity: Cultivation of high yielding fertilizer responsive hybrid varieties over large areas has resulted in the loss of land varieties (desi varieties) which need to be conserved not only for the maintenance of the crop diversity but also for their future use in crop improvement programme as these varieties have several useful traits like disease...

http://www.sify.com/finance/here-s-how-india-can-double-farm-incomes-news-agriculture-sexltngedhdbc.html Moving food to cities has been a problem. Our policies on cold storage have not taken off. Harvest and post-harvest loss of India’s major agricultural produce is estimated at Rs 92,651 crore in 2016 as three of five components–pack houses, ripening chambers and reefer vehicles–in the cold chain remained almost entirely without funding, IndiaSpend reported on Aug 11, 2016. The government needs to encourage the private sector to invest but the private sector will need support in some form of finance or tax concessions. That’s how it has happened in many countries like Thailand or even rich countries like Japan. “India faces a paradoxical situation — its rapid economic growth is coupled with a much slower decline in undernutrition,” said the 2017 Global Food Policy report. What could be the reasons for the slow decline compared to countries like Bangladesh whe...

Eggplant ( Solanum melongena ) or aubergine is a species of nightshade grown for its edible fruit. Eggplant is the common name in North America, Australia and New Zealand; in British English, it is aubergine , and in South Asia and South Africa , brinjal . The fruit is widely used in cooking. As a member of the genus Solanum , it is related to the tomato and the potato . It was originally domesticated from the wild nightshade species, the thorn or bitter apple, S. incanum , probably with two independent domestications, one in South Asia and one in East Asia . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxwQOklzV2Q&t=324s

Guavas are common tropical fruits cultivated and enjoyed in many tropical and subtropical regions. Psidium guajava is a small tree in the Myrtle family, native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. Although related species may also be called guavas, they belong to other species or genera, such as the "pineapple guava" Acca sellowiana. In 2011, India was the largest producer of guavas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN9boRUx7-k

Worldwide, there is no sharp distinction between "bananas" and "plantains". Especially in the Americas and Europe, "banana" usually refers to soft, sweet, dessert bananas, particularly those of the Cavendish group , which are the main exports from banana-growing countries. By contrast, Musa cultivars with firmer, starchier fruit are called "plantains". In other regions, such as Southeast Asia , many more kinds of banana are grown and eaten, so the binary distinction is not useful and is not made in local languages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMgNAQRAEJY

September 08, 2008 00:00 IST Updated: October 09, 2016 16:30 IST Vadakkencherry (Palakkad dist.): A group of farmers in Vadakkencherry is elated by the high yield from their farms after they switched over to organic paddy cultivation last year. The crops are more resistant to pest attack and water usage is less. The jubilant mood among the farmers was evident at the Vadakkencharry padasekharam, comprising a group of 40 farmers, as their second organic paddy harvest festival began on Friday on a 75-acre farm land, which has secured ‘C-1,’ the first stage certification, of Indocert, the Indian organic certification agency. The initiative, promoted jointly by the Vadakkencherry grama panchayat and the State Agriculture Department and backed by technical assistance from the POABS Group which introduced a buy-back scheme ensuring a premium price for the growers, has already spread to over 200 acres covering Palakkad and Alappuzha districts, the granaries of Kerala....

The papaya is a small, sparsely branched plant, usually with a single stem growing from 5 to 10 m (16 to 33 ft) tall, with spirally arranged leaves confined to the top of the trunk . The lower trunk is conspicuously scarred where leaves and fruit were borne. The leaves are large, 50–70 cm (20–28 in) in diameter , deeply palmately lobed, with seven lobes. All parts of the plant contain latex in articulated laticifers. [6] Unusually for such large plants, the plant are dioecious . The flowers are 5-parted and highly dimorphic, the male flowers with the stamens fused to the petals. The female flowers have a superior ovary and five contorted petals loosely connected at the base. [7] : 235 Male and female flowers are borne in the leaf axils, the males in multiflowered dichasia , the female flowers is few-flowered dichasia. The flowers are sweet-scented, open at night and are moth-pollinated. [6] The fruit is a large berry about 15–45 cm (5.9–17.7 in) ...