In small and remote villages in South Asia, our rich agricultural crop/breed diversity and associated knowledge is slowly getting wiped out and is being replaced by a handful of `high yielding’ and `improved’ crops/breeds. Rampant use of chemicals has led to the death of soil and is poisoning our food and ecosystem. The small and marginal farmers, the majority of the developing world’s population, who often own less than an acre of land are getting further marginalized - they neither have resources to invest, nor can they earn any significant amount of profit. Sustainable Integrated Farming System – SIFS, tries to look deeper into this agrarian crisis.

SIFS is an improved version of mixed cropping, which tries to imitate nature’s principles, where not only crops but, varied types of plants, animals, birds, fish and other aquatic flora and fauna are utilized for production. These are combined in such a way and proportion that each element helps the other; the waste of one is recycled as resource for the other.