Lagraine Agro Producer Company

                        The pilot model development initiative of IFS was developed by LAGRAINE AGRO PRODUCER COMPANY LIMITED taking four GPs of GOP Block Under PURI district of Odisha collaboration with Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.   The focus of the pilot programme was on developing the principles and tentative models, giving attention to technology development on individual farms. On the other hand, this phase of upscaling is trying to increase productivity by increasing diversification, resource integration and creating market linkages. While the pilot programme focused on developing models on individual farms, the scaling up phase focuses on mobilizing farmers into groups and extending benefits to not only farm production, but also marketing as a collective initiative. Farmers who are willing to do some experimentation and train others and also those who have the capaci...

                                  Integrated Farming Systems (IFS) is a system which focuses on increasing farm productivity by increasing diversification, resource integration and creating market linkages. Nurturing biodiversity on the farm. Back in the 60s, world was going through severe food crises. As we could no longer expand our production areas, the challenge was to increase the productivity to feed the fast growing population. The traditional agricultural systems were failing us. We needed to modernize our agriculture and we needed new technologies – as we were told. Green Revolution ushered in with the promise of giving us more food with promises of hiking up the productivity. It did so. World’s food stores swelled over the next few decades. Whether that food reached our starved and half starved countrymen, is a differen...