Category: help for farmers
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Snehwan: Breaking the cycle of poverty and child labour for orphans of farmer suicides
In the desolate and drought prone areas of Maharashtra, farmer suicides have become a painfully reality. Although the issue gets sporadic coverage in newspapers the extent of the problem is rarely highlighted. But behind this lies an even graver issue, the silent crisis of those left behind after a farmer dies by suicide. The issue…
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Celebrate Kisan Diwas and support our farmers
Give back to food growers on whom our lives depend TENS of thousands of Indian farmers have been gathering near the national capital in the last few weeks to protest against new agricultural laws. At the root of their anger is the distrust of market reforms. They fear losing their already dwindling incomes and their…
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Farmers feed us. How can we help put food on their plates?
Help the poorest in rural India increase their meagre income WHEN the coronavirus pandemic struck, Randhir Singh, a farmer in Sirsiwala, Punjab was in deep debt. He had a small cotton field by the railway track. Unable to pay back the loan, he killed himself on the same track. Take any state across India and you’ll…
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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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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…
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This is what it takes to pull rural India out of poverty
A recharge bore, a grain bank and a solar-lantern charging station is what made me drive for over 8 hours, over 2 days, through Uttar Pradesh’s terrible, terrible roads. All of the above are deliverables of projects undertaken by the Kanpur-based Shramik Bharti; targeted at bettering the lives of the people in the villages that…