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‘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? 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...

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...