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SourceTrace Systems has signed up with Saaraketha, a completely organic food production enterprise headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, marking its foray into the emerald isle.  Saaraketha specializes in the production of organic foods through engaging smallholder farmers who want to embrace sustainable methods of production. All across the globe, consumers who are politically and environmentally […]

Fluffy whiteness, purity, durability, comfort – these are the qualities we most associate with the cotton fabric.  But look beyond, and the picture is far from rosy.  This very cotton fibre, which is one of the most widely-traded commodities on earth, is a crop that in reality is extremely environmentally destructive.  Occupying just 2.5% of […]

Better Cotton, a venture of the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) that was set up in 2005, is a movement to combat the harmful processes and outcomes of conventional cotton production. Defined as cotton that is ‘measurably better’ for the environment and farming communities, farmers cultivating Better Cotton minimize the harmful effects of pesticides, use water […]

Agro-biodiversity constitutes every form of life that is directly relevant to agriculture. It refers not just to the seeds, plants and animals on the farm that the farmers have introduced, but also the native plants, animals and insects existing on and flowing through the farm. In agro-biodiversity, every species, no matter how small, has a […]

A blanket of carbon di-oxide hangs trapped in the earth’s atmosphere, mainly as a result of burning fossil fuels and burning of forests to create farms and pastures. Surviving in the earth’s atmosphere for up to centuries, this carbon di-oxide is warming the earth and bringing it onto the verge of climatic changes. Global temperatures […]

The practice of agroforestry is as simple as the term suggests – it is a system that combines agriculture and forestry, in which trees or shrubs are grown around or among crops. Combining such agriculture and forestry technologies creates a more bio-diverse, productive and sustainable land-use system. The benefits of agroforestry are already well known […]

SourceTrace Systems DATAGREEN (DG) platform enables Farmer Organizations, to create and maintain a digital Internal Control System (ICS) to support Internal Audit and certification process and to report sustainability data using mobile applications: Source Trace DATAGREEN (DG) features: Mobile applications that works online and offline Farm/pond perimeter plotting and area calculation using phone built-in GPS […]

BIOFACH INDIA together with INDIA ORGANIC concluded its seventh edition successfully once again, for the second time in Kochi, Kerala on 7th November, 2015. The three-day event witnessed an overwhelming response from 3345 B2B trade visitors which included more than eighty International Delegates […]

BIOFACH INDIA together with INDIA ORGANIC concluded its seventh edition successfully once again, for the second time in Kochi, Kerala on 7th November, 2015. The three-day event witnessed an overwhelming response from 3345 B2B trade visitors which included more than eighty International Delegates […]