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