by Divyashree K | Mar 18, 2026 | Rural Futures / Op-eds
Unpaid, Unseen, Unending: The Workdays of Rural Women A woman manually harvesting rice with a sickle. Women work almost continuously, with no clear breaks; only transitions between different kinds of paid and unpaid labour. | Image by Nanditha Gogate When people speak...
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 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...
