Uttar Pradesh, India – The Barabanki District of Uttar Pradesh prides itself on having many women farmers. They cultivate diverse crops including wheat, mustard, fenugreek, vegetables, among others. With the land being fertile, they earn reasonably well but because of following traditional farming practices, they are handicapped in terms of quality and quantity of produce, […]
The Institute for Motivating Self-Employment (IMSE), a farmers’ organization in West Bengal, is carrying out two major campaigns in support of farmers to enable them to keep the land they till and to use sustainable agriculture practices to make small-scale farming viable while protecting the environment. Village-level awareness camps were conducted to demonstrate the benefits […]
