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Bad apples: Scab takes a big toll in Himachal
Raj Machhan, Chandigarh
Apple orchards in Himachal Pradesh have fallen victim to a disease called scab after a gap of 38 years, taking ...
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How Jana chose traditional farming
Bibhubanta Barad, Parijat Ghosh and Dibyendu Chaudhuri, New Delhi
On a sunny morning in the summer of 2017, a women’s Self-Help Group (SHG) at Jana, a village in the ...
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How Punjab planted paddy minus labour
Raj Machhan, Chandigarh
Agricultural workers from Bihar and UP left Punjab in droves during the lockdown. Looming ahead was the paddy season. What ...
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Can Himachal apples survive the big fall?
Raj Machhan, Shimla
Five years ago young apple growers, many of whom had given up jobs to return to family orchards, came together and ...
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Hema Ananth loves farming, her veggies make people happy
Shree Padre, Hassan
Every morning and evening, a tiny shop opens in Kuvempu Nagar, a residential locality a short walk from Hassan Railway ...
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Goan engineer's dream comes true with Gir cows
Derek Almeida, Panaji
When Chaitanya Malik graduated from the Goa College of Engineering with a specialisation in computers, he mapped out a surprising ...
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Jack hotspot: Thailand Pink booms in Kerala village
Antu Pallippadan’s jackfruit farm is a sight to behold. It has 400 jackfruit plants standing in close proximity on just ...
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Assam gourd hits a sweet spot in Karnataka
Shree Padre, Chettalli
A small spiny vegetable from Assam is set to debut in Malnad district of Karnataka. Locally known as madahagala or ...
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Climbing classes: Young men in Kerala get up areca trees
Shree Padre, Puttur
For 15 years Prashanth, a 37-year-old villager living near Thirthahally in Karnataka, slaved at a granite quarry and a petrol ...
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Teff is here and injera may be on its way to India
Shree Padre, Gadag
Four years ago, Dr N.S. Sudhakar, a professor, returned home to Mysore from Eritrea with a packet of teff seeds ...
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A wealth of rare seeds for farmers in Thrissur
Shree Padre, Thrissur
On September 28 an interested group of farmers was escorted to an unusual field at the National Bureau of Plant ...
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Organic boosts tribal incomes from cotton
Usha Rai, Barwani (MP)
In 2015, after growing Bt cotton for 15 years, around 7,000 Bhil, Bhilala, Korku and Gond tribal farmers of the ...
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Anthony Pacheco’s idyllic organic farm in Goa
Derek Almeida, Chorao (Goa)
Anthony Pacheco is one of those rare entrepreneurs who is at home in both an electronics workshop and a farm. ...
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Kerala farmers learn to grow winter vegetables
Shree Padre , Thrissur
Mohammad Kutty of Thoppil Thodi in Pazhayannur panchayat of Thrissur district grows vegetables commercially for sale. This year, he feels ...
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‘A single Indian market is what farmers need’
Civil Society News, New Delhi
The upsurge of violent protests by farmers in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh comes in the wake of seething discontent in ...
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Craze for cracked fruit is bringing in big bucks
Shree Padre, Kodungalloor
In summer, hundreds of makeshift stalls appear alongside National Highway-47 from Chavakkad to Kochi, selling the juice of snap melon ...
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Kerala gets the tomato it always wanted
Shree Padre, Thrissur
Groups of farmers regularly visit Mala in Thrissur district after learning of this prime vegetable growing belt from the media. ...
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Tracing the many relatives in the jackfruit family
Shree Padre, Kottayam
Jackfruit was born and cultivated in India but how many varieties do we have? Nobody really knows. But ask Thomas ...
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Don’t import apples, say hill farmers
Bharat Dogra, Shimla | Photographer: Ajit Kirshna, New Delhi
In several Himalayan villages, owners of apple orchards are angry about the Union government’s decision to facilitate the import of ...
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An orchard in the desert
Civil Society News, Barmer
At 68, Chhogalal Soni has the gruff ways of someone accustomed to taking on challenges. A tall man, with gnarled ...
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Mangosteen bonanza in Kerala village
Shree Padre, Chalakudy
The road to the spectacular Athirapally Falls passes through Pariyaram, a little known village near Chalakudy town in Thrissur district ...
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Satara puts its water systems back
Shree Padre, Satara
In 1708, Shahu Maharaj, grandson of Chhatrapati Shivaji, the great Maratha leader, conquered Ajinkyatara, a fort built by Raja Bhoj in ...
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The diggers of suranga are vanishing in India
Shree Padre, Kasargod
Chaliya Kunhambu, 64, is standing on a road, 30 km away from Kasargod, the district’s headquarters. If he could connect ...
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Kodagu coffee stays in the family
Shree Padre, Bengaluru
In 2007, Greenhills Estate, a coffee plantation in Kodagu, fell on hard times. Its owner, A.T. Chengapa, had taken ill ...
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Women pluck betel leaves after radio campaign
Biswajit Padhi, Bhubaneswar
Basanti Bhoi cultivates two gardens of betel leaves all by herself at Dhanahara village in Odisha. A year or two ...
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Land rights elude Dalits
Bharat Dogra
Despite all the rhetoric about land reforms, Dalits have been able to acquire only very small plots of cultivable land. ...
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Organic veggies from field to van to customer
Shree Padre, Kasargod
Saikumar Billur was working long hours in a cement factory after doing a diploma course in engineering and he wasn’t ...
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Directly from farm to customers
Ravleen Kaur, Chandigarh
Deepika Kundaji turned her back on a career in academics in her late twenties to become a farmer. Training to ...
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SEWA lighting up fields
Tanushree Gangopadhyay, Ahmedabad
For nearly two years, the mosque in a village in Kashmir would be enveloped in darkness when the sun dipped. ...
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Avocado is a blessing for coffee growers
Shree Padre, Kasargod
For many years Veera Arasu thought the 800 avocado trees growing on his coffee plantation merely served a functional purpose. ...
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On the trail of giant tubers in South Kannada
Shree Padre, Joida (Karnataka)
Joida taluk in Uttara Kannada is so remote and badly connected that the local Kunbi tribals trudge 20 km and ...
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Tribal farming is cash-free, sustainable
A field in Dharaav village
Bharat Dogra & Baba Mayaram, Bhopal In Dharaav village in Hoshangabad district of Madhya Pradesh (MP), tribal farmers practise a ...
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