by Lokappa Nayak, Navitha Varsha | Nov 11, 2025 | Rural Futures / Blogs
From Fields of Struggle to Hubs of Innovation: Farmers, Mechanisation, and the Promise of Local Enterprise A dusty sunrise paints the sky over Devadurga, Raichur, warming up the fields below. Lakshmi tightens her sari, picks up her sickle, and steps into the cotton...
by Parvathy M Prasad, Navitha Varsha | Oct 29, 2025 | Rural Futures / Blogs
Unpacking the Gender Gap in India’s Agricultural Tech Revolution Photo credit: Nabina Chakraborty Drones spray agricultural fields with precision, powerful tractors till the land with efficiency, and combine harvesters bring speed into action, replacing manual labour....
by Navitha Varsha, Nabina Chakraborty | May 23, 2025 | Rural Futures / Blogs
Raichur at the Crossroads: Gender-Sensitive Strategies for Sustainable Rural Labour Radhamma and Anuradha picking chillies. Photos: Nabina Chakraborty The sun beats down on Radhamma’s back as she moves through the rows of chilli plants, swiftly plucking the ripe, red...
by Navitha Varsha, Syamkrishnan P. Aryan, Divyata Joshi, Shreenivas Dharmaraja | Mar 17, 2025 | Rural Futures / Research
Addressing the Labour Barrier in the Transition to Crop Diversification Bengali migrants are in demand in Raichur district for their paddy-cultivation skills. Here, they are transplanting paddy in BR Gunda village. Photo by Nabina Chakraborty Crop diversification has...
by Navitha Varsha, Arjuna Srinidhi | Jan 21, 2025 | Futures Research / Blogs
Bridging Knowledge and Action: The Community Hydrology Approach The Rural Futures team conducting the community hydrologist programme in Raichur. ‘Learning by doing’ is a teaching method that emphasises hands-on learning, like a pottery class where you learn to shape...
