Reportage Murky Waters: India is the world’s second largest fish producing country. How safe are its aquaculture farms? A 2020 survey conducted on 241 waterbodies in 10 states of the country has yielded alarming results showing blatant violation...
Reportage Flower Power: Wild marigold farming opens up new avenues of income for farmers in Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh cultivates wild marigold in more than 300 hectares of land. The farmers are happy as their crop is...
Reportage Ruffled Feathers: Government compensation of Rs 90 per bird is chicken feed, say distressed poultry farmers who have lost thousands of birds to bird flu It has been nearly 10 years since the compensation package for poultry farmers in the several affected states has been...
Reportage A Fishy Affair: 15 tonnes of Thai Mangur fish destroyed in Varanasi. It is illegal to breed it, yet it continues to thrive Breeding the Thai Mangur or African Catfish was declared illegal in the country in 2020. However, officials of the fisheries...
Reportage In the Bazaar of Bastar A riot of colours, beautifully handcrafted bamboo baskets, tribal women selling ‘suksi’. An elderly woman with a silver hunsuli around...
OUR ENVIRONMENT A start-up in Uttarakhand uses hemp fibre in construction; makes it to top five at Global Housing Technology Challenge-India Namrata Kandwal’s Gohemp Agro Ventures, founded with husband Gaurav Dixit and brother Deepak Kandwal, researches industrial hemp. They want to...
Gaon Connection Survey|Reportage Food for thought: Has the fear of COVID-19 changed people’s diets? A Gaon Connection survey finds out A Gaon Connection Survey of 6,040 rural respondents across the country revealed that more than half of them had consciously...
Gaon Connection Survey|Reportage Half of rural Indians spending more money in corona period to buy packaged immunity boosting products: Gaon Connection Survey Chywanprash, Giloy, Kaadha, Tulsi, turmeric milk… rural Indians have increased their consumption of immunity boosting items to protect themselves from...
Reportage Give me red: Indigenous red rice is fast making a comeback in the fields of Himachal Pradesh The government hopes to increase the area under cultivation of rice red varieties to 4,000 hectares in Himachal Pradesh. After...
Reportage Prize catch: In Uttar Pradesh, an app to help fishers with information The app on Google Play Store will provide fish farmers information about new schemes and guide them about the suitable...
