Indigenous technology knowledge for watershed management in upper north-west Himalayas of India (1998): Chapter 5

Indigenous technology knowledge for watershed management in upper north-west Himalayas of India (1998)

Chapter 5 - Folk agronomy

		(introduction...)
		Prioritisation of crop sowing
		Mixed cropping
		Rotational farming
		Crop threshing employing animals
		Use of yak and bullocks for ploughing
		Traditional germplasm of agricultural crops
		Uniform seed broadcasting and appropriate seed rate
		Rice dehusking
		Weeding, strengthening, thinning and gap filling in maize crop
		Crushing of coriander seeds with shoe before sowing
		Crop harvesting on slopy lands
		Seed selection for higher productivity
		Distribution of organic manure
		Minimum tillage (mechanical and biological practices for soil management)
		Dividing the fields into sub-plots
		Landuse for optimum resource management
		ITK for vegetable cultivation
		ITK for horticultural crops