About this publication

Krishi Kranti is a field bulletin. It exists because most farming advice arrives either too late to act on or too general to trust — and because the four ways of working land covered here are usually written about as if they were rival ideologies rather than four sets of decisions a farmer makes, sometimes on the same holding, in the same year.

What gets published

Every dispatch has to pass one test: can a reader do something with it before the next sowing window closes? That rules out trend pieces and rules in the unglamorous parts — 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.

Four sections carry the work, and each keeps its own colour throughout the publication so you always know which field you are standing in:

• Organic farming — building fertility from what the farm already produces.
• Advanced farming — irrigation, protected cultivation, sensing and record-keeping, judged on returns per acre rather than novelty.
• Orchard — perennial fruit crops, where a decision made once holds for twenty years.
• Traditional farming — the inherited practices that survived because they worked under local rainfall, on local soil.

How it is written

Numbers are given in the units used at the mandi and on the pump nameplate. Where a recommendation depends on soil type, rainfall or district, that is said plainly rather than buried. Where the evidence is thin, that is said too.

Advice that does not name its conditions is not advice. It is a guess with good grammar.

Corrections

Field conditions vary and published advice ages. If something here is wrong for your soil, your rainfall or your season, the contact desk is the place to say so. Corrections are made in the dispatch itself, with a note at the foot.