Women can be empowered to handle farm operations as well as farm machinery with confidence and pride, if proper support systems are provided. With a little support from BAIF,...
Sanjana
Editorial
Farm Women - Breaking barriers Rural women traditionally have been entrepreneurial. Women as a part of their livelihoods and lives have been involved in several tasks related to...
A journey of FPC in promoting milk production
Diversification is a way forward for smallholder farm livelihoods caught in fragile eco systems. Diary husbandry is one of them. Diary farmers in Vidarbha have come together to...
Towards safe food production A journey of a collective
I, N. Keshavamurthy, have originally come from a farming family. I was running a factory for 30 years, earning good income, but owing to labor problem, work stress and health...
Rural women as enterpreneurs – Restoring food systems and creating markets
Vikalpini, a women’s network in Sri Lanka, through a continuous community engaging process, empowered women, socially and economically, thus reducing their vulnerabilities. The...
FPOs for success of natural farming mission
As a response to the inefficiencies in the present marketing system and to enable farmers, especially the small and marginal farmers to receive a fair price to their produce,...
Sran Vermicompost Farm An inspiring initiative
Shri. Harpreet Singh is a resident of Dugri village in Tarn Taran, a border district of Indian Punjab. Harpreet Singh owns five acres of land and mainly cultivates rice-wheat. He...
Developing climate resilience in Karnataka
Gulbarga district in northern Karnataka has the unique distinction of being known as the ‘tur bowl’ of the state. But even though 330,000 hectares of land is put under tur, or...
Coming together for sustainable growth
Indigenous communities in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve area have organised themselves into a Farmer Producer Company to secure their livelihoods. The company’s significant...