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How India’s Indigenous Communities Caught The Spotlight at ‘The Olympics of...
“Bottoms up!” Literally, as indigenous chefs, farmers and grassroots organisations take to the stage to give voice to the Indian delegation at what has been cited as the food and taste Olympics of the...
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TBI Blogs: Here Are 5 Vegetables to Keep Your Green Fingers Busy during the...
There is a certain charm to growing your own vegetables, and eating veggies grown in your garden. Read on to find out about five winter vegetables you can grow easily in your own backyard in the coming...
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TBI Blogs: Meet the Gandhian ‘Warrior’ Who Uses the Best of Global Technology...
Plagued by multiple problems, India’s agriculture and animal husbandry industries were unable to catch up to global standards of production and quality for a very long time. This is the story of the...
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50 Years of IR8: A Tribute to the ‘Miracle Rice’ that Helped India Fight One...
In 1967, when a 29-year-old Nekkanti Subba Rao sowed a semidwarf variety of rice in over 2,000 hectares in Atchanta, West Godavari district in Andhra Pradesh, he had no idea that the grain he was...
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How Six Families Joined Hands to Grow Their Own Organic Food in Noida
A healthy diet begins with lots of fruits and vegetables, but some of the shiny, 'perfect looking' veggies available in the market may not good for your health after all. A study by the Food Safety...
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TBI Blogs: A 3-Minute Video Helped These Tribal Farmers Reclaim the Rights to...
Farmers and members of rural tribal communities are often swindled by corporations as they are unaware of their legal rights. Three farmers who underwent the same ordeal decided to fight back, and...
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Home Gardens That Require Very Little Space & Time – All You Need to Know...
As concrete landscapes around the world continue to expand, more and more people are realising the importance of greenery. With most urban homes shrinking in size, making room for home gardens has...
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This Unique Farming Technique Doubled the Rice Produce of an Entire Village...
Gacherigaon village is located in Mundigarh gram panchayat in Tumudibandh block of Kandhamal district, Odisha. The village has 156 people in 26 households and all the residents belong to the Panga...
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This Software Engineer Sold His Company to Start a Vertical Hydroponic Farm...
“You are what you eat,” they say. And that’s what Ajay Naik, a Goa-based hydroponic farmer, believes in. After quitting his job and giving up his company, this software engineer decided to help farmers...
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How One Man’s Simple Low-Cost Tools Are Helping Millions of Farmers Tackle...
"My entire life, I have listened to the poor and learned from them." - Amitabha Sadangi Having been desperately poor during most of his young life, Amitabha Sadangi intimately knows the struggles that...
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Meet the Engineer Who Chucked His Well-Paying Career to Help Beggars Become...
An engineer by profession, Ganpat Krishna Yadav could have held on to a lucrative job. Instead, he chose to set up an organic farm in Jaipur with the focused intention of providing employment...
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Thanks to These 5 Rural Communities, Traditional Indian Plant Varieties Are...
Since time immemorial, symbiotic understanding and knowledge of traditional crops has been handed down from one generation to the next in many farming communities in India. In recent times, scientific...
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Meet the Bangalore Lawyer Who Quit His Job to Become an Organic Farmer, but...
Meet H R Jayaram, a 58-year-old lawyer who quit his job to take up organic farming and has started a movement to spread awareness about the importance of organic living in India “I was born in a family...
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This Agro Tech Startup in Telangana Helps Farmers Using Internet Connectivity...
Aside from providing technological assistance to the farmers in Telangana, the start-up called Agrowbook is also helping two young people from a small village to set up a business of gooseberry...
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This Electrical Engineer and IIM Alumnus Is Now Helping Small Farmers with...
Engineer and business graduate Devi Murthy identified growing difficulties faced by small-scale Indian farmers. A majority of agrarian workers in the country were finding it increasingly difficult to...
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Over 5000 Organic Farmers Are Reviving Traditional Crop Varieties. Thanks to...
Did you know that India once used to have over 100,000 varieties of rice? Some fifty years ago, these varieties abounded in the country. Now, however, only 6000 odd local varieties remain and not all...
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How a ‘Wonder Berry’ Is Bringing an Economic Transformation in the Cold...
More than two decades after Himachal Pradesh discovered the potential of a little known deciduous plant called seabuckthorn, the state's high-altitude cold deserts have found new economic and...
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TBI Blogs: A New App Is Helping Farmers Get Better Pricing for Their Goods....
Various factors play an important role in deciding pricing of agriculture products and livestock. Many of these are incomprehensible and inaccessible to the farmers and producers of these products....
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This Space-Savvy Integrated Farming Unit Lets You Grow Fish, Poultry &...
At present, there is a huge demand for organic farming in the country especially after recent reports surfaced, warning that vegetables containing high levels of chemicals and toxins are being sold in...
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TBI Blogs: One Year on, Sikkim Proves Why the Rest of India Must Adopt...
The movement for organic food and an organic lifestyle has slowly picked up pace in India over the last few years. Ashmeet Kapoor, CEO, I Say Organic, discusses India’s organic future, and the rise of...
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