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Return of indigenous crops helps reduce farm distress and restore ecosystems
An annual seed festival, a celebration for the farmers of 18 villages in Odisha who have revived the practice of growing indigenous crops
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MILLETS – The Miracle Grains
Millet farming saves nearly six million litres of water per acre - they can stand up to the crisis of climate change.
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आदिवासियों की हरियाली यात्रा (IN HINDI)
हरियाली बढ़ेगी, कुपोषण दूर होगा, जैव विविधता बचेगी और पर्यावरण भी बचेगा।
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Farmers, buyers celebrate organic food
Do you know your farmer?
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Unique farmer-consumer initiative to cultivate millets to be launched on June 16
The initiative is about enlightened consumers getting into an understanding with ecological farmers to cultivate millets of their choice.
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Youth can play a significant role in solving farm crisis, says Kavitha Kuruganti
'... I will support the farmer in my own interest as well as because I think he (she) will stand a better chance'.
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It is hard to Understand What is Private and What is Common
Adivasi Food Festival-2017 was a celebration of a tradition that has seen many a loss but still has refused to succumb to misfortune
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Voices from the Margins
A two-day conference brings together creators of news organisations that are helping to build an alternative Indian narrative
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Indian village beats drought, one raindrop at a time
Ralegan Siddhi has remained water-sufficient for four decades, even in the severe droughts of 2014 and 2015 that triggered thousands of farmer suicides in Maharashtra