by Srushti Paranjpe | Mar 31, 2023 | Products and Platforms Publications
Landscape Review: Innovation Gaps in India’s Agritech Startup Ecosystem The agritech sector in India is thriving but agrarian distress is still pronounced; clearly, there are gaps that must be bridged to ensure that the livelihoods of farmers who are most vulnerable...
by Lakshmi Pranuti Choppakatla, Craig Dsouza, Ashish Kumar | Feb 10, 2023 | Technical Consulting Blogs
Field Notes from Jharkhand: Testing Jaltol on The Ground With WASSAN On a bright November morning in Dhodrobaru village in southern Jharkhand, around 45 villagers gathered for a tricky budgeting exercise — estimating crop water use in the region. They were split into...
by Sandeep Hanchanale, Syamkrishnan P. Aryan, Manjunatha G, Karishma Shelar | Jan 24, 2023 | Rural Futures Blogs
Soil Workshop in Raichur: Farmers Keen on New Methods to Rebuild Soils Shivraj (name changed) had brought a bag of earth from the land he tills, to use in a simple ‘jar test’ to assess the soil quality. He filled half a transparent plastic bottle with the soil, the...
by Nishant Seth | Jan 7, 2023 | Rural Futures Blogs
Field Notes from Sittilingi Valley: How a Farmer Collective Addresses Both Healthcare and Agrarian Distress In the shadow of Kalrayan and Sitteri hills in northern Tamil Nadu’s Dharmapuri district lies Sittilingi, a village that is predominantly home to Adivasi...
by Ananya Rao, Karishma Shelar | Dec 15, 2022 | Rural Futures Blogs
Raichur Land Restoration Pilot: How We Studied the Local Context Land degradation, or a deterioration in land quality caused by human-induced processes, is a massive challenge for India today. Approximately 53 million hectares (MHa) of land in the country is already...
