Category Archives: Natural Resources

Ley Farming or Alternate Husbandry:An Ecofriendly System

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

Ley farming is an agricultural system where the field is alternately seeded for grain and left fallow. Another name for the method is “alternate husbandry”. In ley farming, the field is alternately used for grain or other cash crops for … Continue reading →

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Farming Systems:Indian Scenario

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Rashid Faridi

  Agriculture, also called farming or husbandry, is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, biofuel and other products used to sustain life.It is increase of Biomass. Main Types of Farming: Commerical Farming – … Continue reading →

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Water use growing twice as fast as population!

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Like oil in the 20th century, water could well be the essential commodity on which the 21st century will turn.Human beings have depended on access to water since the earliest days of civilization, but with 7 billion people on the … Continue reading →

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Zero Population Growth and Environment

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Rashid Faridi

Malthus’s Essay on Population, published in 1798, still plays a role in environmental policymaking. The discrepancy between rates of human population growth and agricultural productivity lies at the heart of Malthusianism. One dynamic leads to ever-increasing population; the other to … Continue reading →

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