Only the locally available seeds, local breed of the cow and local soil can make such farming a self-sustainable, no-additional-cost method.

The indigenous cattle breed owners - poor farmers, herders and nomadic pastoralists who produce most of the milk - must find it beneficial.

The Patua painters also sing Pater Gaans which may relate to mythology and tribal rituals or to issues like preventing spread of HIV/AIDS.

Increasing farmers’ access to a variety of traditional seeds and planting materials will make them more resilient to climatic hazards.

"We got to know about Brown leaf through social media and got in contact with Aditi; she helped us receive 25 trucks of dry leaves,"

Socio-environmental injustices often lead to social movements and activism led by those in the community who are determined to make a change.

She supplies farmers with seedlings of native crops, encouraging them to switch to native varieties.

'... I will support the farmer in my own interest as well as because I think he (she) will stand a better chance'.

More than 10 varieties of millets and 60 varieties of vegetable seeds were also on display for the farmers in the district.