How to plan a year of cropping on a small holding, balancing income timing, water availability, labour peaks and market risk.
Author: carry
Farm Safety: Pesticides, Machinery and Field Work
The main causes of injury on Indian farms and the practical precautions that prevent them, covering pesticide handling, machinery and field hazards.
Weather Information for Farm Decisions: Forecasts, Advisories and Alerts
Where to get reliable agricultural weather advisories, how to use a forecast for spray and irrigation timing, and what forecasts can and cannot tell you.
Groundnut Cultivation: Gypsum, Pegging and Harvest Timing
Why calcium at pegging decides pod filling, managing the crop on limited water, and judging harvest maturity without digging up the whole field.
Potato Cultivation: Seed Tubers, Earthing Up and Storage
Choosing and preparing seed tubers, why earthing up prevents greening, managing late blight, and storing the crop without heavy losses.
Sugarcane Cultivation Basics: Planting, Ratoon and Water Management
Setts and planting methods, why the ratoon crop usually underperforms, and the water and nutrient decisions that carry a long-duration crop.
Cotton Cultivation: Spacing, Pink Bollworm and Picking Quality
Managing a cotton crop from sowing to picking, the pink bollworm practices that actually work, and why picking method affects the price you get.
Farmer Producer Organisations: What an FPO Does and Whether to Join One
How an FPO works, what it can realistically do for a two-acre farmer, and the questions to ask before joining or forming one.
Checking Mandi Prices Before You Sell: Agmarknet and Price Tracking
How to check current rates across mandis, why the modal price matters more than the maximum, and how price information changes a negotiation.
Understanding MSP and How Procurement Actually Works
What Minimum Support Price guarantees and what it does not, how procurement centres operate, and what to do when your crop is not procured.