How we decide what to publish

Guides carry a single byline: Vaibhav Dhama, who founded Technical Kisan and writes from Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh. They draw on state agriculture department sources, published ICAR and state agricultural university guidance, central and state government scheme notifications, and live mandi-price data.

Vaibhav is a software developer by profession (BTech, 2021) and does not hold a formal degree in agriculture. That is stated plainly on the author page and in every article footer, alongside the advice to confirm major decisions with your Krishi Vigyan Kendra or agriculture officer. We do not put invented names or fabricated credentials on articles to look more authoritative. When further named contributors join, they will appear with credentials you can verify.

Figures for MSP, subsidy rates, scheme eligibility and fertiliser prices are drawn from the relevant ministry, department or official notification. Agronomic recommendations — seed rates, nutrient doses, sowing windows — follow ICAR and state agricultural university guidance for the region concerned.

Every number is labelled with the season it applies to. An MSP is meaningless without a year attached to it, and a subsidy rate that was true two seasons ago can be actively harmful if it is quoted as current.

Every guide starts from a real question — something a farmer asked us, or a gap we found while researching another topic. Vaibhav researches it against the sources named above (state ag-department data, ICAR/university guidance, official scheme notifications, and mandi rates). AI tools are used to help with research and drafting, and every article is then fact-checked and rewritten by Vaibhav before it goes up. Nothing is published on a template with the numbers swapped out; if two guides look similar, it is because the underlying agronomy is similar, not because one was copied into the other.

• No paid placements. No company has ever paid for a mention, a recommendation or a ranking on this site, and none ever will. This is not negotiable.
• No affiliate-driven advice. If we ever earn a commission on anything, it will be disclosed in plain language on the page it appears.
• No brand recommendations we cannot stand behind. We will tell you what specification to look for and what it should cost. We will not tell you whose badge to buy.
• No advice we would not follow ourselves. Where the honest answer is that a technology or an input is not worth the money on a holding your size, that is what the guide will say.

Every article carries a publication date, and an update date if it has been revised. Seasonal guidance — sowing windows, MSP tables, scheme deadlines — is reviewed before each kharif and rabi season. An article that can no longer be kept current is withdrawn rather than left to mislead.

We get things wrong. When we do, we fix the article, note that it was updated, and — if the error was material enough to have changed a reader’s decision — say what was wrong and what it should have said.

If you have found an error, write to [email protected]. Corrections from farmers who have found that our guidance does not hold in their district are the most valuable messages we receive.

Nothing on this site is a substitute for advice about your own field. Soil, water, local pest pressure and district-level scheme implementation vary enormously across India, and a guide written for a region cannot account for a specific holding.

Before acting on any figure here — particularly a subsidy rate, an eligibility rule or a deadline — confirm it against the official notification or with your local Krishi Vigyan Kendra, block agriculture officer or bank. We will always tell you where to look.