apricot

Ladakh Basket is an online and offline platform, which sells the region’s indigenous produce to the rest of the world. In doing so, they empower the local farmers to sustain themselves in villages of Leh.

The incredible story of how a team of scientists, government officials, village heads, NGOs and apricot farmers came together and eradicated the yellow-tail moth pest completely in barely two years.

More than half the population of Ladakh is dependent on tourism—and therefore without income for months nows thanks to COVID-19 & geopolitics. But there is a way to a more stable future. Here are some ideas.

Kartik and Anuradha arrived in Thanedar, Himachal Pradesh, in 2005 as tourists and fell in love. In 2012, they moved there permanently with new life goals.