A one-size-fits-all approach, like the one being promoted, is likely to become a recipe for disaster.

Is education facilitating turning away of the educated from the masses, from practice, from agriculture, from culture and from nature?

What do farms have to do with butterflies?

Millets have a potential role in resolving ­nutrition-related problems of the country though there are challenges from the demand side.

Farmers are impressed by its being a trap crop for cotton and the varieties of millets that form part of their regular diet.

Natural/ Organic Farming is about the relation of the human race with nature and about empowering the farming community comprehensively...

Organic farming is more economical (cost of inputs), uses less water (no need for large dams), and produces more yield.

Farm ponds aid in superior water control through the harvesting of rainfall, surface run-off and subsurface flows.

More studies must be conducted on how all farmers may be incentivised to use such traditional knowledge.