KRISHAKA DEVO BHAVA

Jobhipat, as the name goes, stands for the land of marshy areas. Situated on a hill on a high altitude, the land is mainly a jungle where roads have been cut for human purposes. Human civilization has also managed to set up a society there, with the due course of time. The scenic beauty is breathtaking, no doubt. Well, the readers must be skeptical of the life that those people lead. Here's what.              The people belong to the Asur community and have set up a small village of about 50 houses nearly, and call themselves family. Not very scattered households, but evenly spaced out, I must say. No electricity, no water supply, no proper basic requirements, and yet- people are happy and satisfied. Nothing to complain about. They work all day, drink at night, and go to sleep by 8 in the evening. Not much complications, like us city people. You could only see greenery as to that length your eyesight allows. Different hues of green, tint...

Remote sensing and GIS techniques have emerged as powerful tools for watershed management programmes. Watershed management is the process of formulating and carrying out a course of action involving manipulation of natural system of a watershed to achieve specified objectives. This implies the proper use of land and water resources of watershed for optimum production with minimum hazard to natural resources. The quantitative analysis of drainage system is an important aspect of characterization of watersheds. Morphometry is measurement and mathematical analysis of landforms. Satellite images used for this study include Landsat 8 OLI image of 2018 year with a spatial resolution of 30m.Drainage networks and other baseline information of the watershed were prepared from the Survey of India top sheets on 1:50,000 scale and were further updated using satellite data. Landsat 8 OLI data of study area co-registered to Survey of India toposheet was used for displacement in the crust of the e...

It is a type of farming where cultivation of a crop is left to the natural forces of a given place. It means cultivation of crop with least human interference. Thus, seeding and harvesting are the only operations involved in such farming. It is comparable to primitive agriculture, where no cultivation is done, no weeding, no manure and no pest control. Everything is left to nature. Inspiration for such type of farming drawn from the perception that nature can take care of crop. Mr Masanobu Fukuoka of Japan first introduced natural farming. According to him farmers have to ‘do nothing’ but to follow nature to get maximum ecological, economical, mental and emotional benefit from farming. Principles of Natural Farming: 1. No cultivation. 2. No chemical fertilizer or prepared composed. 3. No weeding by tillage or herbicides. 4. No dependence on chemical pesticides. 5. Dispersal of clay seed ballsto propagate plants is done. Zero Budget Natural Farming in India(ZBNF):   ...

Indians have been cultivating for more than 10000 years since the time of Rigveda (c.8000 BC) using locally available resources in an eco-friendly way. Farmers of many areas still are following ancient practices while modern agricultural graduates, trained in the agricultural technologies of the West, are mostly ignorant of our own rich heritage of ancient agricultural practices. It is absolutely necessary for the farm scientists to possess knowledge of our agricultural heritage in order to effectively communicate with the majority of farmer communities. The oldest composition, Rigveda (c.8000), has several verses describing the profession of farming, farming operations and farmer’s happy and enjoyable life. Parasar(c.400 BC), Garg( ), Barahmihir(600 AD),  Kashyapa(700 – 800)AD and Surapal(1000AD) were five famous scholars and thinkers in ancient India who laid the foundation of Agriculture in India. The following eight books, six of which have been translated into English ...

Introduction:                            The practise of traditional/conventional farming is yet to be prominently practised in under developed and developing countries including India, the reasons behind this practising are in fact real and exist like poverty, lack of technical know-how about new technologies, illiteracy of farmers their marginal scattered lands discourage them to step back from the new initiatives and the poor risk-taking ability became the greatest obstacle stopping them from being a Business man.   To overcome these challenges many approaches has come forward, but any approach solely cannot meet the requirements, it need to be integrated and must meet rising needs including current modern technologies, and here comes the new term MODERN AGRICULTURE .              ...

Organic agriculture is very eco-friendly practices where we use cowdung, cow manure, cow urine, compost, FYM, etc instead of using chemical fertilizers, insecticides and pesticides which is harmful in nature. Among the various method of organic farming, Homa farming is the best method in agriculture.Homa organic farming was first introduced in Ancient science of Vruksha Ayurveda. HOMA means Yajnya or Havan. Homa Therapy helps to gathering the energy from the atmosphere, reduce toxicity, increase the yield, improve the quality,taste colour, nutrition value and shelf life as well as helps in Human health by purifying the blood, neutralise harmful bacteria. Agnihotra is the backbone of HOMA Therapy which is practised in particular point of time at sunrise and sunset each day. And other two Homa practices are such as Om Tryambakam Homa and Vyahruti Homa. Anyone can practices these Homa Therapy. Agnihotra is a small fire prepared in copper pyramid which have some specific dimensio...

Let us think about a situation, we have completed our respective courses in this institute, got jobs as well and then we realize that we literally don't have any identity card issued from here! How does it feel? Yes, more or less a same situation is there among the natives of Assam now. About 40 lakhs of people, who might be living there for decades, are at this moment not eligible for getting the Indian citizenship. More specifically, the final draft of Assam's National Register of Citizens was published on 30th July. Out of the 3.29 crore people who had applied to become a part of the NRC, only 2.89 crore were identified as valid citizens. More than 40 lakh citizens have been found to be invalid citizens of India. First of all, What is NRC? Why its upgradation was necessary?        The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a list of all bona fide Indian citizens. It was first prepared after the Census of 1951. Since then it has never been u...

Introduction Millions of species populate Earth. The vast majority gain energy to support their metabolism either directly from the sun, in the case of plants, or, in the case of animals and microbes, from other organisms through feeding on plants, predation, parasitism, or decomposition. In the pursuit of life and through their capacity to reproduce, organisms use energy, water, and nutrients. Organisms interact with one another in many ways, including competitive, predatory, parasitic, and facilitative ways, such as pollination, seed dispersal, and the provision of habitat. These fundamental linkages among organisms and their physical and biological environment constitute an interacting and ever-changing system that is known as an ecosystem. Humans are a component of these ecosystems. Indeed, in many regions they are the dominant organism. Whether dominant or not, however, humans depend on ecosystem properties and on the network of interactions among organisms and within and amon...