Farmers

During a college project, Priyanka Amar Shah combined her love for nature with business skills to start iKheti, an enteprise that facilitates urban farming

A survey conducted in South Kamrup in Assam shows that use of small water pumps for irrigation in an area where groundwater is abundant has resulted in significant increases in earnings for smallholder and marginal farmers. Bikalp Chamola takes a closer look.

The varieties of dwarf wheat developed by Borlaug are credited for saving millions of Indians from starvation.

The fate of the Harikale Menasu is in the hands of these farmers, and they have vowed to protect it.

The insurance scheme was deployed to safeguard the coconut palm farmers against losses that they might incur due to natural causes.

The Karnataka government is doing everything it can to promote millets to both farmers and the general public in the state. Here's how.

A Food and Agriculture Integrated Development Action programme implemented independently through a health, education, and employment centre has transformed Nandangram village in West Bengal by growing high-quality farm produce. Dhruba Dasgupta finds out more.

Abhishek Singhania could have enjoyed his corporate job, which earned him more than a lakh’s salary every month. Or he could have chosen to stay back at his stately house in Kolkata, joining his parents’s well-established business. But he chose a rather tough path to make a smoother road to success for our farmers.

Animal activist Abhinav Srihan is trying to save the abandoned, starved and locked up cows of Mahoba district in Bundelkhand.

Two years ago, The Better India shared a story that was read, loved and shared by you. This was the story of Amol Sainwar, the founder of NGO Shivprabha Charitable Trust. Our journey with Shivprabha Charitable Trust, and the people helped through it, did not end there. Here are some campaigns that TBI and Shivprabha worked together on with our readers and changed thousands of lives