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Agrivoltaics: A Pathway to Sustainable Livelihoods and Renewable Energy

Paddy Jewellery: A Farm-to-Finger Story With A Difference

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Azolla As The Indian Farmers’ All-Weather Friend

Azolla feed leads to a 15-20% increase in milk production in dairy cows. Its production does not require huge investment...

Agrivoltaics: A Pathway to Sustainable Livelihoods and Renewable Energy

A people-centered approach to agrivoltaics should focus on stakeholder perceptions, skill development, and equitable benefit-sharing mechanisms. This will be crucial...

How Technology Is Rescuing Resilient Zanskar Horse From Extinction

ICAR-National Research Centre on Equines, Hisar recognises the need to conserve this breed. Their efforts have now borne fruit in...

Paddy Jewellery

Paddy Jewellery: A Farm-to-Finger Story With A Difference

Not gold or silver, it is the humble rice that is finding its way to the hearts of fashionable people....

Heat Wave In Rural India Was Once Waved Off By Handmade Fans—Where Are They Now?

Once the event concluded, the stockpile of the ‘good’ bena was carefully put away for future use. Like other articles,...

Tribal farmers in Mayurbhanj earn an annual profit of Rs 1 lakh an acre by cultivating rubber

Rubber cultivation was introduced on 200 acres of land in Mayurbhanj district in Odisha in 1995. Since then, it has...

Azolla As The Indian Farmers’ All-Weather Friend

October 15, 2024

Agrivoltaics: A Pathway to Sustainable Livelihoods and Renewable Energy

October 15, 2024

In An Era Of Language Wars, Who Will Speak For My Mother Tongue — Bishnupriya Manipuri?

August 29, 2024

India’s voter must ask politicians: is health infrastructure a part of your manifesto?

August 19, 2024

Your classmate could be 5 years, or 80, in this music class

It is said that knowledge cannot be obtained without a guru, and there is no age for learning. This is...

Naming the Library after Savitribai Phule in My Village Wasn’t Easy

The library in the village hosts books from renowned authors and poets, as well as those from new writers. That’s...

#Constitution

‘Constitution Classes’ Are An Agent of Change For Tribal Youth in Maharashtra

Akash Pawar runs a unique movement – Samvidhan Prachar Lok Sarvad – to teach school children about the Constitution of...

From The Villages in Assam to the Coastal Communities in Tamil Nadu, A Library Network Is Gathering Momentum in India

The Free Libraries Network covers 180 community libraries managed by over 280 practitioners spread across the country with a mission...

Beyond Pattachitra and Talapatra Chitra, Here’s a Lesser Known Leaf Craft of Odisha

Weaving palm leaves together to make decoration pieces, and weaving traditional headgears with siali leaves are the ancient crafts of...

Sparrow boxes and a lesson in conservation

Archana Shukla, a biology teacher in a government school in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, teaches her students academics and the need...

Stubble and Sustainability

Wheat stubble left in the wake of harvesting in May, for instance, is being transformed into consumer goods and artefacts...

The heritage village of Odisha where every single resident is a pattachitra artist

OUR FOOD

How Indian Rice Farmers Deal With Water Scarcity

If farmers are planting the same variety of paddy in a field where it was previously planted, there’s no cause...

OUR FOOD

Keeping Cool This Summer With Kambu Koozhu

The pearl millet or kambu as it is called in Tamil Nadu is made into a simple, no-nonsense, cooling, filling...

Livelihood

A Kerala Village Is Sowing Millets, Harvesting Dreams, Aided By Lenovo India

This unique initiative has incorporated the WFH [work-from-home] model for Lenovo volunteers monitoring the project. These volunteers can work from...

Livelihood

Lenovo Tech Support Revives Millet Cultivation: A Story from Kanthalloor

New and traditional millet recipes to encourage farmers and end-consumers in Kanthalloor are also being compiled. The project is also...

Changemakers

Nursery Times With A Bhil Tribal Healer in Udaipur

Since 2014, Shantilal Khardi has been cultivating more than 200 medicinal roots, shrubs and herbs on his 30 bighas of...

Livelihood

A Hub of Food and Livelihood

Trained under a government programme, 12 young Kashmiri women who come from fishing and farming communities have set up a...

Ground Activation

Surveys and Insights

A solar irrigation pumpset that fits into a jhola is helping marginal farmers

Compact and portable solar powered pump sets are making irrigation easier and farmers using them say it has had a...

Bamboo Based Cyclone Shelters Offer Safe Haven to Communities in The Sundarbans

Health-cum-storm shelters are coming up in the Sundarbans which regularly faces an onslaught of cyclonic storms. Local materials, such as...

Perur Lake, A 250-Acre Ancient Lake in Coimbatore, Is No More a Home to Birds

The Perur-Sundakkamuthur Lake, said to be commissioned by the Chola kings in the 8th and 9th century, is losing favour...

The Light Bulb Moment That Made Me A Birder

Birding is a joy in any form whether we are watching them, photographing them, writing about them or doing illustrations...

After being made fun of for door-to-door sales, these ladies are now prosperous business owners.

These ladies, who were formerly made fun of for door-to-door sales, are now prosperous business owners.

These women were once ridiculed for selling goods from door to door, today they are successful entrepreneurs.

Anita Negi of Himachal is encouraging farmers by learning natural farming.

By studying natural farming, Anita Negi from Himachal Pradesh inspires farmers.

By teaching farmers about ecological farming, Anita Negi from Himachal Pradesh inspires them.

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After being made fun of for door-to-door sales, these ladies are now prosperous business owners.

These ladies, who were formerly made fun of for door-to-door sales, are now prosperous business owners.

These women were once ridiculed for selling goods from door to door, today they are successful entrepreneurs.

Anita Negi of Himachal is encouraging farmers by learning natural farming.

By studying natural farming, Anita Negi from Himachal Pradesh inspires farmers.

By teaching farmers about ecological farming, Anita Negi from Himachal Pradesh inspires them.

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