Access to information
•Progressive Farmers
•ATMA extension functionaries – Block Technology Manager, SMS, farmer friend, Farm School
•Trained input dealers
•Agri Clinics and Agribusiness Centers
•KVK
•Agricultural Research Stations
•Agricultural Universities
•ICAR Organisations
•Kissan Call Centers (Toll free no.1551 or 1800 – 180 – 1551)
•Concerned NGOs
•Agribusiness Companies
•Radio, TV, Agricultural Magzines, Community Radio, Newspapers, Agricultural Websites etc.
Integrated Farming System
•Increased share of non-agricultural activities E.g: Type of Integrated Farming Systems Agriculture +vegetable cultivationAgriculture + animal husbandry
Enlarging the Food Basket
•Diversifying the livelihood sources.
•Changing cropping patterns.
•Increased traditional coping strategies.
•Change to a mixed cropping pattern.E.g: Crop Mixture-Nutri Millets, Pulses and OilseedEnlarging the Food Basket
•Diversifying the livelihood sources.
•Changing cropping patterns.
•Increased traditional coping strategies.
•Change to a mixed cropping pattern.E.g: Crop Mixture-Nutri Millets, Pulses and Oilseed
Neem, Mulberry & Cowpea
•Planting more drought tolerant crops and in-creased agro-forestry practices.
•Agro-forestry systems to provide more sta-ble incomes during years of extreme weather events.
Mango, Pumpkin, maize mixed cropping
Mixed farming/Multi level farming
Farm Pond
Lucerne & Sunhemp for green manuring & fodder
Vegetative Barriers
Contour trenching for runoff collec-tion
Conventional Raised Bed Planting
•20-25% Saving in irrigation water
Straw Thatching
•Protecting young seedlings against cold by cov-ering with straw thatching.
