Sharing knowledge, increasing their output, and accessing new markets.

"For the first time in 72 years, a key agriculture mandi intervention has taken place in Malkangiri"

Black carrots are grown for their health benefits, while the yellow ones are tasty and used to make pickles.

Eating diversity and paying the farmer is a way all of us can contribute to agro-biodiversity conservation.

The current seeds bill bears the imprint of the seed industry which never masks its displeasure at the enabling provisions granted to farmers

Cotton cultivation here is rain-fed. As an established principle, they don’t export any produce.

Small parcels of grains from marked off plots devoted to specific varieties are handed over as seeds to interested farmers.

"... the oils are wood-pressed, flours and powders are stone-ground, and seeds are of the heirloom variety.”

They are replacing the invasive species - gando babool - with mixed varieties of native seeds that can withstand heavy /normal /low rainfall