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As You Sow, so You Eat: How a Tuber and Some Tricks Beat Malnutrition Among...
“Leveraging agriculture for nutrition’’ sounds pompous and redundant, a statement of the glaringly obvious. But it isn’t so really…how else would you explain malnutrition and undernourishment in a...
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This ₹20 Bottle of Solution Is Punjab Farmers’ Answer to Stubble Burning
One of the primary reasons contributing to hazardously high levels of smog in Punjab and NCR belt is the age-old practice of stubble burning followed by farmers with the onset of winter. While the...
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Shafi Has Been Cultivating One of the World’s Most Expensive Spice for 50 Years!
Once upon a time, Mohammad Shafi would go to the saffron fields and collect five to ten kilograms of saffron from one Kanal of land. Now he raises just two kilograms. Kashmir is suffering from one the...
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Gaia Grid: One Man’s Attempt to Create a Self-Sustaining Community in Kerala
“There is so much corruption in India!” “Oh, the potholes in this city will kill someone someday!” “India’s economy is in the pits.” I am sure that even if you have not said these sentences out loud,...
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This Young Rajasthani Trainer Left His Job to Fight Against Chemicals in Farming
It was in 2012 when Pawan Tak visited a hospital in Ajmer and came across a girl who had tried to commit suicide by drinking a harmful pesticide. This incident changed his entire course of life! “The...
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Which Are the Best Places in India to Grow Organic Crops? This Digital Map...
Government agencies under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) have developed a geospatial digital map that will help identify regions with high potential for organic farming. Following...
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Kerala Cops Try a Hand in Farming by Cultivating Paddy in Kannur’s Fallow Fields
When police officials and citizens join hand for a collective purpose, the results are usually noteworthy! A 2.5-acre farmland, where no cultivation was being practised for several years, has once...
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Farmer Inventions Need Protection From Big Companies. Here’s How They Can Get It
Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade is a 78-year-old rice farmer from Nanded village in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra. In the 1980s he developed a mildly fragrant variety of rice that also cooked well....
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Beat a Deadly Weed to Harvest 100kg Potatoes? All Part of the Job for KSEB Staff
Parthenium hysterophorus, or more commonly known as Congress grass or Gajar Ghans in India, is a noxious weed that is every farmer’s worst nightmare. With its ability to infest pastures and farmland...
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Karnataka Farmers Now Can Go Hi-Tech to Spray Fungicide on Their Trees
Spraying fungicides on areca and coconut plantations have been a labouring challenge for farmers in the Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka. Thanks to this invention by the Prithvi to Gagan (P2G)...
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Software Engineer Quits Job to Bring Organic Jumbo Guavas to Our Homes
Neeraj Dhanda would have remained a software engineer all his life had he not visited the VNR nursery in Raipur, where he saw the ‘Jumbo’ guava for the first time. Neeraj was born in a farmer’s family...
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An Unconventional Crop That Now Earns Lakhs Annually for This Bihar Woman Farmer
Poverty and a desperation to earn money led Anita Devi to a unique solution: fungus! Anita has a degree in home science and has also been trained at Dr Rajendra Prasad central Agriculture in Bihar and...
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Loved By Fidel Castro, This Indian Tree is Helping Fight Climate Change in...
In Arabic, the word Maghreb means “where and when the sun sets.” The word also denotes a region, which includes Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia, that is a part of both Africa and the Arab world. A...
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MBA Graduate Turns to Mushroom Farming, Makes Lakhs With Just a 18×45-Foot Shed!
How can farmers earn extra income in a limited space through organic means? Pragnesh Patel, an MBA graduate who became a farmer, has come up with a fantastic solution – mushrooms. His small 18 x...
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Through Schools and the PDS, the Humble Millet Is Battling India’s Health...
India has a two-pronged problem. According to IndiaSpend, on the one hand, more than half of the women, children and one in five men are anaemic, and on the other hand, a section of society is reeling...
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This Farmer Grew 100 Tonnes of 20-Foot Tall Sugarcane in One Acre! Here’s How!
Appaso Kabade, a farmer from Karandwadi village in the Sangli district of Maharashtra, owned 30 acres of ancestral land. As a local sugar mill was giving a reasonable price for sugarcane, he started...
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How an Innovative Poultry Farmer is Generating Electricity from Chicken...
To the list of jobs you probably didn’t know existed, add this one: chicken litter recycler. That’s just one of the many hats Tamil Nadu’s Meivazhi S Durairaju wears. A poultry farmer from a...
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Here Are 5 Agri-Tech Startups Changing the Game for Farmers
Indian farmers are suffering due to insufficient irrigation systems, shrinking landholdings, erratic rainfall, rising farm production and management costs, and inadequate access to timely information,...
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Meet Komal Saul, The ‘Instant’ Rice from Assam That Needs No Cooking
A rice that cooks on its own? Yes, it exists. Komal Saul, an indigenous variety from Assam, is quickly emerging as a quirky and sustainable alternative to conventional rice at a time when energy...
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This Man’s Low-Cost Technique Has Helped Hundreds of Struggling Farmers
India has long undervalued one of its most precious resources—water, and today, the country’s chronic mismanagement of water is staring at it in the cruel face of a back-to-back drought in nearly...
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