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

... a storehouse of ecological thinking and an ethical anchor that is rarely found in South Asia’s environmental landscape.

... provides an alternative to escape from current crisis-ridden and ecologically harmful farming practices creating serious health problems.

"... We should also start coming up with new ideas, showing alternatives (to livelihood).”

Students levelled the field, planted seedlings, removed weeds, and finally, last month, harvested their produce.

The sandhai was a watering hole for people of all age groups to mingle and understand the importance and advantages of a more natural lifestyle.

A techie who traded in the comforts and chaos of the city to turn farmer, on what the transformation involved.

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