Capture rain water, thus freeing arable land from waterlogging while recharging groundwater to use for irrigation during the lean season.

Pingara, run by 1000 farmers of Dakshin Kannada, employs 18 people and has the capacity to process over 400 kg of raw jackfruit a day.

Alternate layers of dry leaves (from the city) and aquatic plants from a one-km stretch of the Mutha river are layered on the banks and composted.

Knowledge and a respect for ecology still enables the local traditional healers to ensure immense faith and following by Chhattisgarh folk.

The training at the Knowledge Centre is now modified to weave in local knowledge to make it rooted in ground realities.

The solar-powered station is aimed at reducing carbon-footprint as well as cut down power costs drastically.

"Their organic dyes and processing methods have now become an area of study and research for design students”

As many as 170 farmers in three of Andhra Pradesh's districts will take up sowing diverse seed varieties in half-acre of land each in kharif 2018.

Representatives of the Angamaly block panchayat hope the initiative will not only help empower women in the local body but also offer them jobs