"For the first time in 72 years, a key agriculture mandi intervention has taken place in Malkangiri"

Over 300 horticulture trees and timber trees in his farm prevent raindrops from directly falling and checking soil erosion.

Mimicking forests, farmers across India have started transforming farms into a layered cropping system - climate resilient and more productive.

"The herbs that go into herbal concoctions used as as insect repellents and for veterinary purposes come from our own herbal gardens."

हरियाली बढ़ेगी, कुपोषण दूर होगा, जैव विविधता बचेगी और पर्यावरण भी बचेगा।

Women are the custodians of seed diversity, including millets. Seed selection, an important part of the process, is also mostly done by women.

Cooperative initiatives that involve urban and rural people to solve problems of villages as well as cities, help to bridge the rural-urban divide

"Our seed diversity is preserved and cultivated, though we did loose some seeds like red maze but we have tried and revived the lost seeds"

Crops and vegetables planted within one acre farms by the women gave nutritious and healthy plants for consumption with surplus produce.