Yields of millets, sorghum and maize showed better resilience to extreme weather and also witnessed smaller declines during droughts.

After the dam was built, farmers began to abandon planting of this paddy as the fields often got flooded when there were freak rains in a year.

Ensuring food security and diversity of food, seed security, nurturing of the ecosystem and, more importantly, protecting health of communities.

"We pushed large dams, not irrigation. But this has to change.”

In these seven decades, we should have worked towards building power at village level, so that villagers are the local key decision-makers.

“If the government takes a firm decision that the ban on plastic, will be strictly implemented, our craft can give rise to an important industry..."

जो आपल्या विचारांचा नाही तो आपल्या विचारांचा व्हावा असे वाटत असेल तर त्यांच्याशी अत्यंत प्रेमाने संवाद साधत राहायला हवे.

“Tribal languages are a treasure trove of knowledge about a region’s flora, fauna and medicinal plants,"

Unapproved and illegal GMOs are just appearing in farmers’ fields and the produce entering the food chain... lacking deterrent action.