"This booklet is aimed to educate and inform farmers about diverse possibility of sustainable and safe food production methods and its techniques. This handbook is designed as a practical guide to these different practices of agroecology and their specific principles, techniques and strategies.We hope that these practical techniques would help to address the needs of especially small and marginal farmers who are contemplating to switch over to low-cost agriculture.
The diverse agroecological practices described in this booklet are further explained with easy to-do steps for follow-up action. The handbook presents several options and approaches for different types of crops production, water management, soil protection, crop protection and organic pest management techniques and so on. The farmers can choose crops and vegetables that suit local climatic conditions and soil types."