Agriculture and Developmental Research

Nowadays the approaches taken for the development of rural India is mainly bottom-up approaches rather than the top-down approaches. In such cases, PRA is a perfect data collecting method. There are different tools of PRA for different types of data collection. Seasonal crop calendar is one of them. During Data collection in village The rural area cannot be developed by any component but agriculture. Seasonal crop calendar tries to take the data about the agricultural habit of the villagers throughout the year in different seasons. It is better than the old schedule methods, because PRA takes the data from the villagers and by the villagers. To involve them all in the data collection from a meeting we can make some colorful methods with the locally available resource. Then we can divide them into three groups and then the each group is given a season ( summer, monsoon, and winter) they have to least the name of crops what they grow in the particular season, the data of eac...

The concept of farming was started 10000 years ago in the Vaidic age. At that time the chemicals were not there but they can protect the plant their plant, they can grow their food and can feed their people. After independence as well as partition the amount of land divided but the population of India do not decrease at the same ratio of the land. As a result a food scarcity arise. After World War 2 the countries who stop their business of weapons they started the business of chemical fertilizer, and they choose the north-eastern trance Gangetic plane as their place of extension. The HYVP (High Yielding Varity programme) so called green revolution started. The high yielding variety needs more fertilizer more water as a result today north-eastern trance Gangetic plane become a unfertile land. Is it really needed? After 1000 years of slavery under different rulers we forget that our sages also doing farming, one India was well known for its farm products like spices fruits etc. ...

  Resource Map   is a free, open-source tool that helps you make better decisions by giving a better insight into the location and distribution of your resources . With Resource Map , our team can collaboratively record, track, and analyse resources at a glance using a live map .  This is my experience during PRA about Resource map... In PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal) Resource Map is a very effective tool to know about the resource of the place, and it is also a good method to involve all person at the same time as because of its large size. Everyone can contribute their ideas and knowledge about the place in Resource mapping. It is also a good tool to attract people’s mind into PRA as because we use various colour and different materials as needed it is quite interesting than other tools of PRA. In our Resource Map at Anjan gram of Gumla Dist. of Jharkhand we use different materials like tiles, green grasses, coloured powder, sketch pens, sand, ston...