Agriculture

An advocate of minimal human interference, he avoids using any fertilisers or pesticides and lets nature take its own course.

In March 2016, Vipin completed his training to become a full-time farmer. He had quit his job as a programmer.

A ‘Water Atlas’ which has just concluded mapping the physical and economic productivity of water available in India, is underway by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations.

Agriculture in India is characterized by small landholdings and the presence of a large number of subsistence farmers.

Greenpiece Terrariums is a joint venture handled by Lakshmi Raju and Ganga Fischbeck since 2015 and it all began out of a conversation.

In Mother Earth, Sister Seed we travel along with the writer and hear stories from the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, the Bija Vidyapeeth in Uttarakhand and farms in Wayanad among a smorgasbord of other places, some well-known, some a new realization.

An active farmer, Premanandan hasn’t purchased vegetables to meet his household requirements for all these years.

Kerabai grew up listening to songs that her mother sang at home and in their field. All these songs are ingrained in Kerabai's memory, and that is the only formal training she has had in singing.

India is slowly, and perhaps inevitably, moving away from being an agriculture-dependent society.

Some of the primary reasons for the state to launch such an initiative are concerns like dwindling farmlands, a lesser number of people taking up agriculture as a livelihood and giving up agriculturally suitable land away for commercial purposes.