by Manjunatha G | Jun 19, 2023 | Rural Futures / Blogs
Explainer: How Green Manure Can Help Degraded Farmlands Sustain Themselves A rotavator crushes a row of plants to create manure. Photo by Revanna Siddappa, Prarambha Soil fertility, i.e. the soil’s ability to support plant growth and optimise yield, depends on myriad...
by Ananya Rao | May 3, 2023 | Rural Futures / Blogs
Part 2: Livelihood Lessons and Insights from Journey Mapping in Mukkanal Livestock grazing in Mukkanal, Karnataka. Photo by Manjunatha G In the first part of our blog series on the journey mapping exercise we conducted in Mukkanal village in Raichur district, we...
by Ananya Rao | May 2, 2023 | Rural Futures / Blogs
Part 1: Journey Mapping to Plan the Future of Mukkanal’s Farmers Pesticides being sprayed on paddy fields in Raichur, Karnataka. Photo by Manjunatha G. “Thirty years ago, my grandfather used to cultivate redgram, greengram, sesame, and various millets on...
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 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...
