NEWS ETC On its 10th anniversary, Gaon Connection releases a unique compendium — 50 Success Stories of Rural Women in the Pandemic The 250-page free-to-download e-book is a collection of stories of extraordinary courage, grit and determination of village women who stood...
OUR LIFE Online gaming and gambling — a debt-and-death trap for rural youth India has around 420 million active online gamers and the industry is slated to grow to five billion dollars by...
OUR ENVIRONMENT Danger ahead as GM Mustard gets a go ahead; matter before the apex court There are reports that GM mustard has already been planted in seven places — Delhi, Bharatpur, Ganganagar, Ludhiana, Jhansi,Varanasi and...
Livelihood Bihar: Solar powered cold storage facility is helping small traders in Muzaffarpur minimise their losses Bihar’s Muzaffarpur is a hub for vegetables and fruits. Cold storage units can go a long way in cutting down...
NEWS ETC AgriTech and 25 Million Smallholder Farms — The Immense Opportunity India has 25 million smallholder farmer households. These cultivators are faced with climatic, informational, financial challenges. AgriTech players are pioneering...
OUR ENVIRONMENT Reviving the Indigenous Multi-Cropping Systems of India From the 7-crop system of Rammol in Bhuj to the nearly 40-crop system of Kurwa in Jharkhand, India’s indigenous multi-cropping...
NEWS ETC Madhya Pradesh: Protesting tribal farmers stop construction of Runj dam; demand compensation Runj medium irrigation project in Panna district is in the eye of the storm as project affected villages, majority of...
Health Tackling antimicrobial resistance by focusing on sanitation and hygiene More than 1.2 million people died in 2019 as a direct result of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. Access to safe water,...
Governance Pipelines laid but no water; health centre barely functions — official apathy mars Pokhran’s nuclear-test-fame village On May 11, 1998 India successfully carried out underground nuclear tests at a site three kilometres away from the Khetolai...
NEWS ETC Kharif paddy lost to drought, no resources to sow rabi wheat, say farmers in Jharkhand This year, drought in 22 out of 24 districts in Jharkhand was so distressing that hundreds of thousands of farmers...
