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Environment and Ecology
Students are her army
A few hundred students of one or two schools would walk to the lake and water the plants, when money for having them watered ran out.
Environment and Ecology
Women conquer climate emergency in Marathwada
Sustainable and diversified agriculture is the only solution to stop deepening India’s agrarian crisis.
Environment and Ecology
Farm body on mission to boost organic cotton cultivation
Cotton cultivation here is rain-fed. As an established principle, they don’t export any produce.
Food and Water
जैविक खेती की ओर मुड़े बिरहोर (in Hindi)
जलवायु बदलाव को देखते हुए देसी बीजों की मिश्रित खेती को बढ़ावा दिया जा रहा है।कोदो, कुटकी, धान की देसी किस्में,जो कम पानी में भी पक जाती हैं।
Environment and Ecology
Farmer in Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor scripts success story by growing rain-fed tomato crop
As he cultivated the crop under rain-fed conditions, the produce can be stored for a longer period compared to others.
Food and Water
Switching back to coarse cereals can offer multiple benefits: Study
Food supply can be enhanced by planting more nutritious and environment-friendly crops such as finger and pearl millets and sorghum
Knowledge and Media
Hill community was losing touch with its language. Then it turned to Whatsapp
They share stories, poems and songs in Runglwo, giving members a chance to learn and practise the language.
Food and Water
Why I wrote a book on Dalit food
In Mumbai they were introduced to supposedly iconic Maharashtrian dishes vada pav and misal - unheard of in Marathwada!
Environment and Ecology
A living gene bank
Small parcels of grains from marked off plots devoted to specific varieties are handed over as seeds to interested farmers.