Agriculture

Besides papads and chips, the firm also has other products like ready-to-cook payasam, ‘maambala’ (dried fruit pulp), and halwa!

It was his ardent love for plants and trees that turned Babu Rajshekar from a management background to organic farming.

And it also the reduces the methane footprint of paddy farming, thus helping in tackling global warming!

Along with the expansive kitchen garden, Dipali Shahlot has also set up birdhouses and water basins that are regularly frequented by sparrows and pigeons.

Look beyond the Basmati on the shelves of your supermarket and give indigenous aromatic varieties a chance — your taste buds are sure to thank you for bringing something new to the table!

An engineer by profession, Jamalpur village resident Vinod Yadav had initially considered breeding fish in the pond

One of the main precautions that farmers take before the monsoon season is to spray copper sulphate to protect the crop from fruit rot disease. However, due to the twin problems of labour shortage and the height of the trees, it is a tortuous task.

While Rashtriya Kisan Mahasangh has already formally announced the nationwide strike, some key farmer outfits are staying away from the agitation.

From local multicolour varieties to ones from as far as Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and even Sri Lanka, Shankar and Roopa grow these all!

"The area under Rabi and summer crops shrunk sharply due to mere 66 percent of the average rainfall during the Kharif season in 2017."