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Improvising low cost farming equipment/ tools
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Machinery And Tools
In the first phase, GEAG has done problem analysis and feasibility study for the technology innovation in the intervention areas and to comprehend the problems associated with the tools that are being used by the small and marginal Farmers. Some of the tools like Weeding a
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Vertical farming
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Agriculture And Animal Husbandry
Farmers in the area grow vegetables that creep over the soil, such as sponge gourd and bottle gourd, but these crops do not survive due to excess water and humidity in the soil. Farmers have adopted an innovative technique of growing creeping vegetables by usin
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Short term weather forecasting and agro advisory
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Machinery And Tools
Automatic Weather stations have been installed in Gorakhpur and Bihar and mobile SMS-based climate information advisory services are being provided to the farmers (More than 200) wit
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Developing raised bed low tunnel poly-houses
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Agriculture And Animal Husbandry
Raising crops in nurseries during summer for transplanting in winter used to be extremely difficult due to extensive waterlogging. Farmers have provided training to prepare and use poly-houses for growing seedlings. In this practice, first, the farmers prepared a raised seed bed (1 to 1.5 f
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Establishing Resilient Farming techniques in flood prone areas for small land holding farmers
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Agriculture And Animal Husbandry
This type of farming techniques is based on the principle of integrating household, livestock and agriculture, and seeks to enhance diversity and recycling in the farming systems. Low cost external bio-inputs, appropriate crop varieties, space and time management, seed
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