Organic
Read the soil test before you buy a single bag
A soil health card costs almost nothing and routinely changes what a farmer should spend on inputs. Most cards are filed unread because nobody explains the six lines that matter.
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What a soil moisture sensor actually tells you
A sensor does not tell you to irrigate. It tells you tension at one depth, at one point. Read correctly, that is enough to stop guessing.
Organic
A working pest calendar without a single pesticide
Biological control fails when it is used like a spray — reactively, once the damage is visible. Timed against the pest life cycle, it holds.
Orchard
Training a mango canopy for light, not for looks
A closed mango canopy fruits on its outer shell and carries dead wood inside. Opening it up is three cuts a year, made in the right month.
Advanced
Polyhouse economics: the numbers that decide whether to build
Protected cultivation works, on the right crop, with the right market. The structure is the small decision; the marketing channel is the large one.
Traditional
Desi seed saving: selecting, drying and storing for next sowing
Saved seed degenerates when it is collected from whatever is left after threshing. Selected from standing plants and dried to the right moisture, it holds for years.
Orchard
Post-harvest handling: where a good crop loses its price
A third of Indian fruit never reaches a buyer in saleable condition. Almost all of that loss happens in the first six hours after picking.
Traditional
Farm ponds and field bunds: catching the rain where it falls
On rainfed land the water arrives in a handful of storms. What matters is not how much falls but how much stays on the field after the runoff stops.
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Organic Farming
Composting, green manure, biological pest control and certification — farming that feeds the soil before it feeds the crop.
- Turning farmyard manure into compost that actually works
- Read the soil test before you buy a single bag
- A working pest calendar without a single pesticide
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Advanced Farming
Drip and fertigation, protected cultivation, sensors and farm records. Technology judged by what it returns per acre.
- Sizing a drip system before you dig the trench
- What a soil moisture sensor actually tells you
- Polyhouse economics: the numbers that decide whether to build
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Advanced Farming
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Orchard
Fruit farming across the long horizon — rootstock, canopy training, pollination, harvest windows and post-harvest handling.
- Choosing rootstock: the decision you cannot revisit
- Training a mango canopy for light, not for looks
- Post-harvest handling: where a good crop loses its price
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Orchard
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Traditional Farming
Mixed cropping, desi seed, bullock tillage and rainwater harvesting — the local knowledge that kept these fields productive.
- Mixed cropping on rainfed land: why three crops beat one
- Desi seed saving: selecting, drying and storing for next sowing
- Farm ponds and field bunds: catching the rain where it falls
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Traditional Farming
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What Krishi Kranti publishes
Krishi Kranti publishes practical farming guides for Indian farms. Every guide is written to be acted on inside the current season, which rules out trend pieces and rules in the unglamorous detail: the turning schedule for a compost windrow, the pressure a drip line needs at the far end of a slope, the month a mango canopy should be opened up.
Coverage runs across four disciplines, and each keeps its own colour throughout the site so you always know which field you are standing in.
Organic farming covers building fertility from what the farm already produces. Advanced farming covers irrigation, protected cultivation and sensing, judged on returns per acre rather than novelty. Orchard covers perennial fruit crops, where one decision holds for twenty years. Traditional farming covers the inherited practices that survived because they worked under local rainfall, on local soil.
Where a recommendation depends on soil type, rainfall or district, these practical farming guides say so plainly rather than burying it. Where the evidence is thin, they say that too. Conditions vary, so if something here is wrong for your field, the desk wants to hear about it.
Ask about your own field
Send the crop, the district and the season. Questions that arrive with those three details get a specific answer, not a general one.