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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A forgotten delicacy from Assam: Tita Phool, cooked with broken rice, fish and a lot of love

A writer fondly recalls her grandmother’s special dish made with a special kind of tita phool (bitter flowers) that was...

A Winter Delicacy, The Patali Gur of Bengal is a Labour of Love, and Hard Work

The traditional date palm jaggery makers of West Bengal climb up and down at least 60 palm trees a day...

Here’s how kids can grow organic veggies at their homes

In overcrowded and cramped cities, there is often a lack of space for kitchen gardens. But children can grow tomatoes,...

Strawberries sweeten the labourer-landowner bond in Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki

Satyendra Verma is the first farmer to take up cultivation of strawberries in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh and script...