Climate Smart Agri-Technologies
Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a system of integrated management of soil, water and biological resources combined with external inputs. As a concept of sustainable agricultural production, it is promoted by several organizations including GL. CA aims to achieve sustainable and profitable agriculture through the application of three principles: minimal soil disturbance, permanent soil cover and crop rotation. It is a way to combine profitable agricultural production with environmental concerns and sustainability and it has been proven to work in a variety of agroecological zones and farming systems. In partnership with FISD, GL promotes the use of renewable energy for irrigation (Solar irrigation). So far GL has directly trained 108 (50 Males and 58 Females) farmers (as ToTs) in CA, organic farming (i.e. garlic) and manure making