CHENNAI: In this health-conscious world, amateur gardeners are a growing tribe. And they need natural fertilisers and native seeds. But city stores usually keep hybrid or GM varieties. Enter Hariyalee Farm with 560 varieties of native seeds. The farm is run by Varun Prabhakar, 28, a mechanical engineer who left his job in the US […]
Palghar (Maharashtra): From travelling to Vasai which is 50 kms away to work as a farm labourer to owning a farm that earns him a livelihood and also feeds his family of 12, it has been a remarkable six-year journey for Pandu Kashinath Gagnde. And the magic mantra is organic farming, says the 42-year-old tribal […]
Hyderabad:Sound engineers from Tollywood are stepping in to aid teams tackling elephant, Nilgai and monkey menace to habitations near forests. These engineers will help scientists of the All India Network Project of Vertebrate Pest Manage-ment, Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agriculture University, improvise the bio-acoustic techniques and amplify animal noises for this purpose.
An organic fashion label teams up with a UK college and women farmers of Maharashtra to stitch cloud-shaped bracelets as a symbol of cotton crisis in the region.
Kochi: Transgender activist and artist Kalki Subramaniam inaugurated Indias first residential transgender school in Kochi on Friday. Sahaj International School, which will operate under the National Open School system, will initially have 10 transgender students. The school is considered as an Alternate Learning Centre for school dropout transgenders. The school will have boarding facility. It […]
NAGPUR: About 50 students, farmers, artists and visitors lie daily on coffins that have been grown using mustard crops and leafy vegetables at a farm in Paradsinga. The participatory mass performance symbolizes ‘death of profession’ of farmers who lost their agricultural lands for the ‘special economic zones’. The village, which is about 60 kilometres away […]
2016 turned out to be a great year for Sikkim as it became Indias first fully organic state besides being adjudged the cleanest state, overall best in education and tourist destination while the famed Kanchenjunga National Park was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Around 75,000 hectares of agricultural land were gradually converted to […]
Jaivam, the international seminar attempts to bring together the vast scholarship on emerging trends in organic farming and the traditional wealth of knowledge in the area. Sustainable agriculture which lies at the heart of organic farming forms an equally important theme of the conference
Located adjacent to a patch of rocky terrain at Kummarigudem of Kazipet mandal under the Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) limits in Telangana , the four-and-a-half acre of land was considered to be barren land till the last four years ago…
Since time immemorial, symbiotic understanding and knowledge of traditional crops has beenhanded down from one generation to the next in many farming communities in India. In recent times, scientific research has also corroborated the fact that the diversityof indigenous plantvarieties can offer a home-grown solution to challenges brought by climate change, particularly as modern agriculture […]