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मिट्टी-बीज बचाने का अनोखा मेला (In Hindi)
बीजोत्सव में सुरक्षित व पौष्टिक खान-पान पर ज़ोर दिया जाता है।
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Community seed banks give Sahariyas a new lease of life
Seed banks focusing on collection of grain varieties that used to be consumed by the Sahariyas for ages ...
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Against the grain: why millet is making a comeback in rural India
Sharing knowledge, increasing their output, and accessing new markets.
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Odisha Millet Mission: The successes and the challenges
"For the first time in 72 years, a key agriculture mandi intervention has taken place in Malkangiri"
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Mission Shakti Mela:Traditional snacks turn heads
To enable rural and urban women producers to showcase their products, develop market linkage and refine their produce.
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Farm body on mission to boost organic cotton cultivation
Cotton cultivation here is rain-fed. As an established principle, they don’t export any produce.
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A living gene bank
Small parcels of grains from marked off plots devoted to specific varieties are handed over as seeds to interested farmers.
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Restoration is no substitute for undisturbed forests.
Though actively-restored fragmented forest patches recover better than those simply 'protected', undisturbed forests are the best.
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This Kolhapur Man Runs An Organic Store Which Doesn’t Create Any Waste
"... the oils are wood-pressed, flours and powders are stone-ground, and seeds are of the heirloom variety.”