If they could give up chemical pesticides, then why not switch entirely to organic and stop using chemical fertilisers as well?

Women strengthen livelihoods, ensure a steady supply of quality seeds for cultivation and increase access to pesticide-free food.

"There can’t be disparity when we celebrate womanhood in the form of goddess Durga,"

The campaign has come as a lesson on the strength of combined effort: several NGO partners, grassroots groups, and the Forest Department.

“They realise that groundwater is a common resource, not private property, and hence requires collective action,”

Through this venture, farmers are finding stable incomes, and sustainable livelihoods as the produce is directly bought without intermediaries

Millets are being made part of the midday meal and Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in several districts of Odisha

“Most of the plants dismissed as weeds are edible and we don’t even know it. We walk past them every day ..."

“This kind of art can make people come to the river, not take it to be just a dirty river but something that you would want to come and see. "