The Farmer Facilitation Centre provides scientific information on crop management, etc. and a venue for marketing produce directly at prices that farmers decide upon.

Debal Deb has conserved 1,200 climate resilient rice varieties. He speaks on the need to conserve traditional seeds and why we don’t need genetically modified ones.

The theme for this year’s Mela is traditional seeds and cuisine, and transformation/healing.

Organic is a way of farming in a responsible manner, where a farmer cares for mother earth, for the environment, for animals ...

Students walk bare-foot on the red, loamy soil, amid peacocks and rabbits. They harvest organic fruits and vegetables such as mangoes, pumpkin, guavas, and jackfruit.

"The idea is to wean farmers and home gardeners off hybrid or GM seeds and propagate the use of native or indigenous seeds"

Even during peak drought years, millet crops don't entirely fail. And every acre that grows millets over rice saves 6 million litres of water.

Farmers erect 'T' shaped bamboo poles in the paddy fields to provide birds with perches so that they can feed on the larvae of leaf-eating insects

From having a successful business to giving it up at the age of 50, from selling furniture to becoming a farmer – the amazing story of Suneet Salvi.