Vidarbha

Manish Rajankar in Bhandara and Gondia districts brought the tribal community together imbibing sustainability in their lives

Courage and conviction, this gritty couple has oodles of them. #Respect

In 2013, Bodhisatva was in Class 1 when he first spoke about the perils of deforestation at a public forum

Just like few medicines are sold only with doctors’ prescription, farmers will now have to get a prescription from an agri-officer to buy poisonous pesticides.

Maharashtra farmer Chandrashekar Bhadsavle’s method, SRT (Saguna Rice Technique) farming avoids tilling completely and lets the residue of the earlier crop (in the rice crop’s case-- paddy stubble) disintegrate into the soil with the help of weedicides and microbial cultures.

High temperatures like Vidarbha’s is also a boon for this tree as higher the temperature, the sweeter the fruit becomes.

Ravi has grafted the tree 1,350 times to get these 51 varieties of mangoes.

The initiative One Crore Farmer Fund started by NRI software engineer Suresh Ediga aims at raising rupees one crore to help farmers across India.

A community initiative in Vidarbha, a region known more for farmer suicides than the fine quality cotton it grows, VISHRAM has seen an effective reduction in suicidal behaviour, besides increasingly encouraging people to seek professional help for depression.

One of the last vestiges of the colonial era railways, Shakuntala Express runs on India’s only private railway line between Murtazapur and Yavatmal in Maharashtra, chugging along the 190 km stretch at an average speed of 20 km per hour.