Category: help farmers
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Declining bee population: A major threat to food security
BEES, often regarded as nature’s tiny superheroes, play a crucial role in pollination, ecosystem balance, and food production. However, India has witnessed a worrying decline in its bee population in recent years. This decline, a buzzing concern, is not only an environmental issue but also has far-reaching implications for agriculture, biodiversity, and food security. At…
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How do we enrich the lives of India’s poor farmers?
Covid-19 has highlighted the need for sustainable rural livelihoods RURAL India is hurting. And it is where 70% of the country’s population lives, the majority engaged in agriculture. Rural India also feeds us. But the complete shutdown of economic activities for months has affected ‘farm to fork’ supply chains and further depleted household budgets of…
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Agriculture: Does a poor farmer get the help he needs?
Ours is primarily an agrarian economy, with much of rural India still practising agriculture as their main occupation. As cities continue to expand, devouring chunks of cultivable land, our poor farmers struggle to arrange for their daily bread. It is terrifyingly ironical that the one who puts food in our bowls prays for a grain…
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How it began at Janmitram Kalyan Samiti
Not many people have the courage to give up a secure job to take the path less trodden. Manish Singh is one of those people. An officer in the Chhattisgarh Forest Department, he gave up the position in 2009, after 13 long years of service. While we trekked through fields in Kharsia block of Chhatisgarh,…
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Making farming a profitable, year-long rather than an unprofitable four-month activity
It was a cloudy Sunday morning; just the perfect day for a drive through the hills. Lucky for me then that my visit to the Raigarh-based Janmitram Kalyan Samiti (JKS) was scheduled for the day. Initially set up to enhance the livelihood of tribals as well as better manage natural resources in the area, the…