As many as 170 farmers in three of Andhra Pradesh's districts will take up sowing diverse seed varieties in half-acre of land each in kharif 2018.

Its target is to bring down the cost of production in farming and provide higher income to farmers by following organic methods.

Farmers who have reclaimed native seeds as a commons have reduced costs, increased incomes, become debt-free and are not driven to suicide.

The weekly Bissamcuttack market, nurturing the area’s ecologically-attuned agricultural traditions, forges a connection between consumers and farmers

For many farmers, sharing and ventilating their toxic and morbid thoughts was cathartic.

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

“The consumption of millets is lower down on the agenda of policy makers as well as the community... need campaigns to popularise millets again."

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

The unrest in and around Bastar is fundamentally about respect, dignity and trust in our behaviour towards other people