THE ART OF THE COMMONPLACE
the agrarian essays of Wendell Berry 

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Wendell Berry

Pp. 360/2012/PB

Rs 400


The Art of the commonplace gathers twenty-one essays by Wendell Berry that offer an agrarian alternative to our dominant urban culture. These essays promote a clearly defined and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety ill health and destructiveness of the contemporary American Culture. This book is equally important in India respect too.

SILENT SPRING 

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Rachel Carson

Pages: 244/ PB/--

Rs. 175


Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring is widely recognised as one of the most influential books of the 20th century. In her book Carson painstakingly provided scientific documentation to prove that the use of toxic chemicals to kill insects – they damage agricultural crops – was disturbing nature and its complex processes in ways little understood by humankind. 

PANCHGAVYA - a manual

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Dr. K. Natarajan

Pages: 56/PB/2008

Rs. 30


Panchgavya consists five products from the cow: dung, urine, milk, curd and ghee. When suitably mixed and used these have miraculous effects. Such a high esteem and status for a simple product from a common animal may sound paradoxical, but when the truth is unraveled, one is overcome with wonder.

GENETIC ROULETTE 

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Jaffrey. M. Smith 

Pages: 319/ PB/2009 

Rs. 475 

GM crops are not safety-tested in India. Yet the Indian government is planning a full-scale conversion of GM to our agricultural crops, not contemplated by any government anywhere. Our food will be altered at the molecular level with irreversible consequences. Jeffry Smith’s Genetic Roulette is formidable documentation of health and environmental risks of GM foods based on independent data from the best scientific sources worldwide. It would be a potential crime against humanity on the part of the government to proceed in the light of evidence in Genetic Roulette. 

THE NATURAL WAY OF FARMING 

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Masanobu Fukuoka

Pages: 288/PB/--

Rs. 500


This volume is the secrets of the Fukuoka’s approach to farming the natural way; the theory and practice of working with nature and living better for it. At once philosophical and down-to-earth, he takes us on walk through healthy fields, and clearly explains how we can and must change our ways of doing things if we are to make lasting peace with the earth and ourselves. Photographs, diagrams and tables provide abundant practical reference for gardeners and farmers. 

THE ORGANIC FARMING SOURCEBOOK
Everything (almost) about organic farming in India you may want to know

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Claude Alvares

Pages: 458/ PB/2009

Rs. 500

Written and designed to excite and stimulate your interest in organic farmi- ng, this sourcebook will take you to every aspect of subject. 

ORGANIC REVOLUTION 

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Bharat Mansata

Pages: 131/ PB/2009

Rs. 150


After the Soviet Union collapsed and the U.S. tightened its embargo, Cuba’s organic revolution began suddenly, under compulsion. This remarkable story about Cuba demolishes the myths that organic farming can never feed the world. Holistically adopted it can also revitalize society, enhance the environ- ment and safeguard further generations. In the current raging debate over urban-industrial uprooting of farmers, here is one example the world can’t ignore. 

THE GREAT AGRICULTURAL CHALLENGE 

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Bharat Mansata

Pages: 114/ PB/2009

Rs. 100


Veteran natural farmer, Bhaskar Save’s open letter to M.S.Swaminathan, national commission of farmers-“I say with conviction that only by organic farming in harmony with nature, can India sustainably provide abundant wholesome food and meet every basic need of all- to live in health, dignity and peace. 

REGENERATING THE SOIL 

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Claude Bourguignon

Pages: 234/PB/2005

Rs. 250


Regenerating the soil is an amazing personal testament. It will become the new bible of the organic and natural farming movements and will hopefully lead to the eventual decline and permanent eclipse of the chemical way of farming that has been responsive for large-scale devastation of the earth and its living environment over the past decades. Here Bourguignon restores the primacy of the ancient truth that soils are inherently alive, and that only living soils will support agriculture of permanence, agriculture with a future. 

GODS OWN CROP 

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National Consultation on Millers

Pages: / PB/2008

Rs. 120

This book is a report of a National Consultation on Millets. This report provides up to date information on wonder grain `Millets.’ Along with the book there is one film also ``Millets the Miracle Grains’’ produced by DDS Community Media Trust and presented by Millet Network of India. 

TENDING THE EARTH Traditional, Sustainable Agriculture in India 

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Winin Pereira

Pages: 315/ PB/2007

Rs. 290


Traditional agricultural in India is among the oldest and most advanced in the history of world. It has proved its sustainability over the millennia, and rates high in all aspects of total productivity, self reliance, diversity, and the depth of its indigenous knowledge. The wisdom and innovativeness of traditional farming and culture are the best guide we have to regaining the path of sustainable justice and sanity. Anyone who nurtures hope for the future of earth and her inhabitants must read it. 

THE EARTHWORM BOOK 

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Sultan Ahmed Ismail

Pages: 101/ PB/2005

Rs. 150


The book contains practical information about the place of earthworms in local ecosystem, the various types of earthworm presents in the soil, their anatomy, and the economics of composting and vermiwash production and the application of these in organic farming from vegetables to crops.
Throughout the book Dr Ismail stresses .The importance of working with nature and describes the hazards of disturbing the ecosystem in the nature of biotechnology and advanced farming practices. He also firmly advocates use of local earthworms in preference to exotic species. 

THE ONE STRAW REVOLUTION 

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Masanobu Fukuoka

Pages: 214/ PB/2009

Rs. 150


Few books written in our soulless times have succeeded in transforming people’s minds, spirits and lives as completely as Masanobu Fukuoka’s One Straw Revolution. This book- an all time classic is a clarion call to all of us to abandon modern agriculture and its destructive methods and poisonous practices and to return to our far richer heritage of working closely and simply with the land. 

THE VISION OF NATURE FARMING 

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Bharat Mansata

Pages: 217/ PB/2010

Rs. 295


The acclaimed `Gandhi’ of Natural Farming speaks with conviction and wisdom grown from seven decades of personal experience. This book relates Sawe’s way of farming and teachings rooted in his deep understanding of the symbiotic relationships in Nature. Much of the explana- tion is in Sawe’s own lucid and down-to-earth idiom.

BIODYNAMIC FARMING AND GARDENING 

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Peter Procter

Pages: 211/ PB /2008

Rs. 250

Biodynamic farming is an ecological, self-supporting farming system which has no adverse environmental effects. It promotes soil enrichment and conservation. In this revised and updated edition of his pioneering book, Grasp & Nettle, Peter Procter succinctly outlines the application of biodynamic methods to a wide range of farming and gardening conditions.