Farmers · Shri Sahaj™
Designing Crops to Grow Together
Nature does not grow crops in isolation. Shri Sahaj brings that intelligence back to the farm: the right second crop, in the right rows, for your soil and your season.
Why now
One crop is one bet. Two crops are a plan.
Everything rides on one rain
A single crop puts the whole year's income on one rainfall pattern, one pest and one price. A second crop from the same field spreads that risk.
Inputs keep costing more
A legume in the mix adds nitrogen, and crops with different roots draw from different layers of soil, so the field asks less of the market.
Rain is harder to predict
Crops with different durations and water needs cope better when the monsoon is late or breaks. Something is still standing at harvest.
What you gain
Three gains from the same acre.
Income
- A second crop from the same acre
- Early cash from the quicker crop
- Pulses like tur carry assured MSP procurement
Lower risk
- If one crop fails, the other still gives
- Different pests, different timing
- Fits dry spells better than one crop alone
Healthier soil
- Legumes add nitrogen
- Roots work at different depths
- Ground stays covered, so less erosion
Our ancestors already knew
Mixed cropping is as old as the plough.
Kalibangan, c. 2800 BCE
Archaeologists found a ploughed field with two sets of furrows, about 30 cm and about 190 cm apart. B. B. Lal described it as mustard and gram sown together.
Mishra pik in Maharashtra
Jowar with tur, bajra with tur, groundnut with maize. Our grandparents sowed them in rows set by long experience.
What was missing
The ratios passed by word of mouth. They were never checked against soil, seed rate or market. Shri Sahaj adds the science: ICAR research, your soil test, an agronomist's review.
Nature does not grow crops in isolation. Shri Sahaj brings that intelligence back to the farm.
The science backbone
Old wisdom, now checked by research.
Shri Sahaj does not invent crop pairs. It selects from systems that research and farmers' practice both support, and it shows the grade of evidence behind each one.
- 28%ICAR-IIMR pilots on sugarcane + maize recorded about 28% higher sugarcane-equivalent yield, plus 3.5–5 t/ha of maize.
- ₹11,440 crNational pulses mission for 35 lakh hectares, with assured MSP procurement of tur, urad and masoor for registered farmers.
- ICAR-IIMRLists maize + groundnut in paired rows, and safflower, for Maharashtra's Sub-Montane zone.
How it helps you
From pin code to a plan in two minutes.
Enter pin code and plot size
We place your farm in its zone and work out the area, in acres or gunthas.
See up to three options
Each shows the rows, plants, seed range and sowing window for your plot, and what can go wrong.
Test the soil, then confirm
Share the options on WhatsApp. After your soil test, Harit Kranti 2.0 agronomists give the final advice.
Sources: ICAR on the IIMR sugarcane + maize model · ICAR-IIMR Maharashtra · Press Information Bureau, Government of India (pulses mission) · B. B. Lal on the Kalibangan field.
Next steps
From idea to your field.
We guide. The farmer grows. The family books ahead.
Ask BhoomiSathi on WhatsApp, or find the Kendra nearest to you — the first soil test is where it starts.