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Date Farming Changed This Vidarbha Farmer’s Life & He Can Help You Set up a...
A poor farmer’s son who had to live in an orphanage has become one of the most successful farmers in the drought-prone Vidarbha region and wants others to follow his footsteps and end farmer suicides....
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Rejected by 40 Firms, This Engineer Is Now Saving the Environment, 1 Book at...
A mechanical engineering degree holder from a prestigious engineering college in Bengaluru, Sushant Jha had dreams of a successful career when he was in the final year of his engineering. However, none...
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Empowerment & Environment : Slum Women Convert 300 Kg of Flower Waste Into...
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. -Georges Bernanos Two brothers have actually put together...
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This Lecturer Quit His Job to Become a ‘Plant Doctor’& Help Farmers in Distress
Dr. K R Hullunache Gowda, who was given an honorary doctorate by Jeeva Theological Open University, Chennai, for his work in farming, belongs to Srinivaspura village of Kolar district of Karnataka....
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How Tribals Are Making Eco-Friendly & Cheap Furniture Using Weed That...
It was the year 2000 when Maya Mahajan, a PhD scholar from Coimbatore, was researching on the impact of invasive alien weeds on native flora and ecology in various forest types in the Nilgiri biosphere...
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How a Farmer From Madhya Pradesh Is Growing 110 Varieties of Rice in Just 2...
About 30 km from Maihar, lies Pithaurabad village in the Unchehara block of Satna district in Madhya Pradesh. What is unusual about this village is the 2-acre land, where you will find 110 varieties of...
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These 2 Engineers Spend Their Weekends Connecting Farmers With Low-Cost,...
Pawan Sharma was born in a small village called Mahagauli near the small town of Pinahat in Agra district of Uttar Pradesh. He often saw his father talking about the farming problems and finally one...
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A Differently Abled Farmer Grew Pomegranates to Help 60,000 Others & Received...
Among renowned personalities like Deepa Karmakar, Virat Kohli and Sanjeev Kapoor on the list of Padma Shri awardees this year was another, but far lesser-known, name– Genabhai Dargabhai Patel, a...
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This Woman’s Preserved 30 Indigenous Rice Varieties & Is Making Sure You Get...
Rice emerged in India 14,000 years ago and with a single variety. Farmers experimented and amplified the genetic diversity and in the course of the last 10,000 years, there emerged 1,10,000 varieties...
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This 95-Year-Old Won an Innovation Award for Introducing Carrots to Gujarat...
Vallabhbhai Vasrambhai Marvaniya, a 95-year-old carrot farmer from Khamdhrol village of Junagadh district of Gujarat, was one of the recipients of 9th National Grassroots Innovation Award this year....
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Why a Brit Came to India 18 Years Ago & Made a Home for the Differently-Abled...
On July 1,1999, David Earp, a UK based textile designer who came to Kolkata to sell his fabrics, received a call from another foreign national running an NGO in Kolkata. He said that two young boys...
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This Gujarat Man Spends ₹ 1.5 Lakh Every Year to Feed 3,000 Birds That Visit...
Harsukh Bhai Dobariya from Junagadh district of Gujarat was awarded with Srishti Samman award for bird conservation by President Pranab Mukherjee this year. Everyday, around 2,500 to 3,000 parrots,...
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This Ganesha Festival, Get an Eco-Friendly Idol That Will Grow Into a Plant...
“What better can we ask of God when we have nature as a gift,” is the tagline of team Sasya Ganapathi. Four childhood friends, Sudhakar, Bharat, Puneet and Vivek, were highly motivated to grow plants...
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Meet Assam’s First Organic Tea Farmer Who Also Owns The World’s First...
In the words of Tenzing Bodosa, “If you respect nature, nature will respect you. It is that simple.” Tenzing’s two farms in Bodoland territorial area of Kachibari village in the Udalguri district of...
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A Village of Millionaires & More: 10 Unique Indian Villages That Will...
India is known for its diversity – in language, culture and religion. Every city is different and so is every village. But there are few villages in India that are not only different, but unique too....
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You Can Help a Rajasthan Village Get an Eco-Friendly Sanitary Napkin Factory...
According to a study by AC Nielsen, of the 355 million menstruating women in India, only 12 per cent use sanitary napkins. The researchers, who interviewed 1,033 women in rural India, found that over...
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This Banker-Turned-Farmer Is Helping City Dwellers Rent a Farm and Grow Their...
While coming back to India after staying in Canada for four years, Deepak Gupta, a banker for 16 years, thought of something that would change the course of his life forever. Deepak and his wife Smita,...
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Here’s What Shattering of Menstrual Taboos & Access to Hygiene Did to an...
Sulochana Pednekar is an award winning social worker, who has changed the lives of more than 2000 school girls. Born in a remote village called Siolim in Goa, she was raised by a single mother, who...
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This Young Sarpanch Created a Model Village With CCTV Cameras, WiFi & a...
Punsari is one of the best villages of India, with all the amenities of a city but it was not always the best. Know how the efforts of one man changed the village in the past few years. Himanshu Patel...
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Why a Fashion Designer Left Her High-Flying Job to Rear Goats in a Remote...
A promising student from NIIFT, Mohali, Shweta Tomar had her boutique until 2015 and could have been a successful fashion designer today. But she chose a different path and started goat rearing in a...
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