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Kids are receptive and enthusiastic about the ‘organic’ lifestyle: Growing healthy vegetables at their own school – Tamil Nadu

Posted on 22/04/2016 by website administrator

Pankaja Srinivasan, The Hindu, August 25, 2015 | Read the full story here >> Alageswari tucks a tiny sapling into place and pats the soil down tenderly. A half smile plays on her lips. It is as if she is … Continue reading →

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Slideshow | A long journey: Growing vegetables and carrying it to the weekly market – Andhra Pradesh

Posted on 13/01/2016 by website administrator

VISAKHAPATNAM, Mar 23, 2015 Tribals toil hard in the vast expanse of fertile lands to grow vegetables and come in groups to weekly market on road-side at Araku in Visakhapatnam District. Men and women walk miles to carry their produce. … Continue reading →

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Advantage of Podu (slash-and-burn) cultivation: Almost all varieties of cereals and vegetables grow in one plot – Odisha & Andhra Pradesh

Posted on 15/03/2013 by website administrator

In the lap of nature ASHA KRISHNAKUMAR A HORTICULTURE technique, some 10,000 years old and forerunner to the systematic cultivation of food crops, is still practised by tribal societies living on hills and mountains the world over and the hill … Continue reading →

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Gujarat High Court orders vegetable market for tribal vendors

Posted on 21/09/2011 by website administrator

The Gujarat High Court has ordered the nagarpalika authorities of a town in Tapi district to construct a vegetable market with all necessary amenities by September this year so that local tribals selling vegetables have a place to do business. … Continue reading →

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Kondh Adivasis farmers known for their sophisticated practices of agro-forestry: Koraput region, “one of the world’s great biodiversity hotspots” – Odisha

Posted on 10/10/2019 by website administrator

CHITRANGADA CHOUDHURY – ANIKET AGA, counterpunch.org, 8 October 2019 | Read the full story here >> Pirikaka is a Kondh Adivasi farmer in her 40s.  Every year, for over two decades, she would prepare a hill slope for dongar chaas – literally, … Continue reading →

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