For the country’s food security and for alleviating poverty, Water Conservation Fee is definitely the much-awaited reform.

"We, as citizens, need to take up the mantle for ensuring cleaner air and healthy surroundings,”

“We don’t want grains or a house; just give us our grazing land.”

They pack one kg of a variety of indigenous seeds in cloth bags and sell them at exhibitions to encourage more farmers to cultivate them.

The fair saw at least 40 varieties of tuber which are cultivated organically by Kunabi community people and other farmers in Joida taluk.

Agro-waste falls off the upper deck; small grain collects in one tub and the good grain remains in the middle deck, collecting in a separate tub.

DDS has helped achieve food sovereignty and security for several thousand families, as also empower these women towards autonomy

The weavers use about 5 kilos of the fabric extracted from old clothes to create a bedcover or other article

To empower the farmers and stakeholders in the panchayat, make them aware of the importance of protecting their water bodies and environment.