Farmer-led popularization and dissemination of new rice varieties in Telangana help close the seed gap

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About our work in collaboration with the IRRI India (the International Rice Research Institute) towards the promotion of new varieties.

The article on Rice Today, an international magazine by the IRRI.

Farmer performing a crop-cutting experiment to get a reliable, cost-effective estimate of crop yields and other information on a rice variety for comparison.

About our work in collaboration with the IRRI India (the International Rice Research Institute) towards the promotion of new varieties. The article on Rice Today, an international magazine by the IRRI.
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Enabavi stories – 1st Organic Village in India in 2006

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Enabavi, the very ‘1st Organic Village’ in India After Punukula (Khammam), another village which took the challenge of leaving behind the traces of chemical usage and genetically modified crops was “Enabavi”. An inspiration and a successful story of how the second largest pesticide usage district’s one village adopted biological...
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Punukula Stories – 1st Pesticide-Free Village in India in 2005

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When the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA), Hyderabad began its journey in 2004, its main focus was to support small and marginal farmers with knowledge of ecological and economically sustainable farming practices. This led to helping them to transition from conventional methods to organic. In 2005, Punukula, a village...
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The ‘Sahaja aharam’ story: (How To) Think local

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How a community enterprise driven by small farmers, including an all-women cooperative, is building local food systems and bridging the gap between small organic farmers and urban consumer What strikes you first is the stunning variety of plants on this half-acre farm—fig, guava, mango, wild berries, vegetables, flowers… As...
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How Women Farmers Are Helping Transition To Natural Farming In Andhra Pradesh

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 Shreehari Paliath The state’s natural farming programme must ensure that women are empowered as they move to cleaner, greener farming, and do not just become a means to an end Update: 2022-10-06 00:30 GMT Pulivendula (Andhra Pradesh) and Bengaluru: In front of her modest one-room house under the shadow...
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Organic takeover: How 10,000 farmers of Telangana, Andhra are steering a silent movement

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A federation of farmer-producer organisations has tapped into the growing organic market to help members raise incomes By Abhay Kumar Singh Published: Sunday 28 August 2022   Catering directly to the consumers’ needs assures better marketability and incomes. This is what nearly 10,000 farmers of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have...
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किसानों की किस्मत बदल सकते हैं किसान उत्पादक संगठन, लेकिन…

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विपणन की कमी देश में जैविक खेती अपनाने की गति को धीमा कर देती है। यदि पूरी निष्ठा के साथ इसे समर्थन दिया जाए तो किसान उत्पादक संगठन खेती की इस पद्धति को बढ़ावा दे सकते हैं By Abhay Kumar Singh, Nupur Sharma On: Monday 14 February 2022 छत्तीसगढ़...
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