How To

Did you know you can grow green chillies at home using the shrivelled ones in your fridge? Here are five simple steps to follow.

Mohammed Moiez, an urban gardener and entrepreneur from Telangana, grows over 400 plants in planters made from recycled containers.

Harivartha Prajeeth and Dr Mangayarkarasay Leela from Tamil Nadu practice the art of natural farming and have trained 500 others.

Twenty farmers from Balagarh Block in West Bengal’s Hooghly district are growing a variety of watermelons using the poly mulching technique endorsed by the ATMA (Agriculture Technology Management Agency) scheme. This method saves water and improves the fertility of the land too.

John Sherry, assistant director of the Agriculture Farm Innovation Bureau in Kerala shares a step by step of how he grew tomato, cowpea, bhindi, bitter gourd, snake gourd, chillies, brinjal and more in his home in an environmentally sustainable way.

Rajesh Shah loves Alphonso mangoes, and it is this love that stopped him from felling old trees planted by his grandfather. Instead, he used the 'girdling' technique that is quite popular with mango farmers in Gujarat.

Plasma donation to treat COVID-19 patients has been much talked about, however, major hospitals like Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital are facing a shortage of platelet donors too.

What started as a curiosity to grow plants during her childhood, has turned into an active hobby with encouragement from family and friends for Hyderabad-based Naina Sarda. She details how the often discarded mango seed has been used as a mouth freshener and also for high blood pressure patients while narrating a step-by-step guide on growing mango saplings at home.

Subburaman M from Trichy, Tamil Nadu, a Padma Shri Award winner and founder of Society for Community Organisation and People’s Education (SCOPE) NGO has innovated a simple solution to save and reuse water generated from hand washing.

Residents of Riviera Towers in Kandivali East, Mumbai, are making organic Holi colours using dried flowers collected from homes and temples.