Ever Wondered How Much a Fair Price for an Indian Farmer’s Produce Should Be?
All of us, irrespective of our financial situations, need food to survive. We cannot eat nuts and bolts or software but only food. Hence for our survival food is the most important thing. And yet we...
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This Lecturer Quit His Job to Become a ‘Plant Doctor’& Help Farmers in Distress
Dr. K R Hullunache Gowda, who was given an honorary doctorate by Jeeva Theological Open University, Chennai, for his work in farming, belongs to Srinivaspura village of Kolar district of Karnataka....
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How Tribals Are Making Eco-Friendly & Cheap Furniture Using Weed That...
It was the year 2000 when Maya Mahajan, a PhD scholar from Coimbatore, was researching on the impact of invasive alien weeds on native flora and ecology in various forest types in the Nilgiri biosphere...
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How a Farmer From Madhya Pradesh Is Growing 110 Varieties of Rice in Just 2...
About 30 km from Maihar, lies Pithaurabad village in the Unchehara block of Satna district in Madhya Pradesh. What is unusual about this village is the 2-acre land, where you will find 110 varieties of...
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These 2 Engineers Spend Their Weekends Connecting Farmers With Low-Cost,...
Pawan Sharma was born in a small village called Mahagauli near the small town of Pinahat in Agra district of Uttar Pradesh. He often saw his father talking about the farming problems and finally one...
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A Differently Abled Farmer Grew Pomegranates to Help 60,000 Others & Received...
Among renowned personalities like Deepa Karmakar, Virat Kohli and Sanjeev Kapoor on the list of Padma Shri awardees this year was another, but far lesser-known, name– Genabhai Dargabhai Patel, a...
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This Woman’s Preserved 30 Indigenous Rice Varieties & Is Making Sure You Get...
Rice emerged in India 14,000 years ago and with a single variety. Farmers experimented and amplified the genetic diversity and in the course of the last 10,000 years, there emerged 1,10,000 varieties...
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A Weekly Organic Produce Market in Odisha Is Bringing Consumers Closer to...
One Sunday morning this January, I visited a market for organic produce, located amid dense bougainvillea creepers and rows of trees on the grounds of the 6-decade-old Christian Hospital in...
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This 95-Year-Old Won an Innovation Award for Introducing Carrots to Gujarat...
Vallabhbhai Vasrambhai Marvaniya, a 95-year-old carrot farmer from Khamdhrol village of Junagadh district of Gujarat, was one of the recipients of 9th National Grassroots Innovation Award this year....
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All About Permaculture: Traditional Farming Mixed With Modern Tech to Create...
At a time when our meals consist of more chemicals than nutrients and our natural resources are fast depleting, I was fortunate to have stumbled upon an alternative way of living/ growing that could be...
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Meet Assam’s First Organic Tea Farmer Who Also Owns The World’s First...
In the words of Tenzing Bodosa, “If you respect nature, nature will respect you. It is that simple.” Tenzing’s two farms in Bodoland territorial area of Kachibari village in the Udalguri district of...
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Why This Young TN Boy is Creating Memes on Facebook to Spread Awareness About...
What do you associate memes with? The first few words that come to my mind are comedy and satire. But 24-year-old Santhosh, an agriculturalist, uses them to inform farmers about various techniques and...
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This Banker-Turned-Farmer Is Helping City Dwellers Rent a Farm and Grow Their...
While coming back to India after staying in Canada for four years, Deepak Gupta, a banker for 16 years, thought of something that would change the course of his life forever. Deepak and his wife Smita,...
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Revolution With One Straw: How One Japanese Farmer Changed Modern Agriculture
The consequences of modern-day agricultural practices on the environment are devastating. Industries seem to be in a mad race to grow profits and meet the demand of a growing population. From...
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These 2 Engineers Spend Their Weekends Connecting Farmers With Low-Cost,...
Pawan Sharma was born in a small village called Mahagauli near the small town of Pinahat in Agra district of Uttar Pradesh. He often saw his father talking about the farming problems and finally one...
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A Differently Abled Farmer Grew Pomegranates to Help 60,000 Others & Received...
Among renowned personalities like Deepa Karmakar, Virat Kohli and Sanjeev Kapoor on the list of Padma Shri awardees this year was another, but far lesser-known, name– Genabhai Dargabhai Patel, a...
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This Woman’s Preserved 30 Indigenous Rice Varieties & Is Making Sure You Get...
Rice emerged in India 14,000 years ago and with a single variety. Farmers experimented and amplified the genetic diversity and in the course of the last 10,000 years, there emerged 1,10,000 varieties...
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This 95-Year-Old Won an Innovation Award for Introducing Carrots to Gujarat...
Vallabhbhai Vasrambhai Marvaniya, a 95-year-old carrot farmer from Khamdhrol village of Junagadh district of Gujarat, was one of the recipients of 9th National Grassroots Innovation Award this year....
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All About Permaculture: Traditional Farming Mixed With Modern Tech to Create...
At a time when our meals consist of more chemicals than nutrients and our natural resources are fast depleting, I was fortunate to have stumbled upon an alternative way of living/ growing that could be...
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Meet Assam’s First Organic Tea Farmer Who Also Owns The World’s First...
In the words of Tenzing Bodosa, “If you respect nature, nature will respect you. It is that simple.” Tenzing’s two farms in Bodoland territorial area of Kachibari village in the Udalguri district of...
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