Agriculture, technology, and addiction

Agriculture, technology, and addiction

in Counter Solutions — by Anshuman Das — 16/09/2021 Even for the smallest ailment, people, these days, resort to medicine. They trust that medicines can ‘cure’ the root cause of the disease. Some people take refuge in medicines even...
I do not want organic market

I do not want organic market

‘I do not want organic market’ STORY BY : ANSHUMAN DAS*WRITTEN ON : 1ST JUNE, 2018 ‘The idea that Organic farming is merely ‘replacing chemical fertilisers with cow dung’, is primitive.’ This article by Anshuman Das was originally published in the November 2017...
Farm to Systems-Where is our measuring tape?

Farm to Systems-Where is our measuring tape?

Farm to Systems – Where is our measuring tape? An integrated rice field near Ranchi Besides yield, nutrition and income, a family farmer harvests several other benefits from an agroecologically designed farm. So, we need to have a different set of parameters to...
“The Uncivilized Food”

“The Uncivilized Food”

A rainy day of the end of August. Raindrops kept pouring over the green waves of rice fields. It seems that there would be a good harvest this year. Ranu looked outside the door, came back lazily and peeped into the drum, where she stores rice from previous years. She...