If farmers are planting the same variety of paddy in a field where it was previously planted, there's no cause for concern. However, if they switch to a different variety, it's important to remember that the fields are watered immediately after sowing.

This unique initiative has incorporated the WFH [work-from-home] model for Lenovo volunteers monitoring the project. These volunteers can work from anywhere to support the project. They have developed an app and a database that allows farmers to make better decisions based on data. Importantly, this data helps in making decisions during both rain and sunshine.

New and traditional millet recipes to encourage farmers and end-consumers in Kanthalloor are also being compiled. The project is also creating bite-sized, easy-to-consume information nuggets around the key events, dates, and weather in the millet value chain

Since 2014, Shantilal Khardi has been cultivating more than 200 medicinal roots, shrubs and herbs on his 30 bighas of land in Bhamti village in Rajasthan.

In overcrowded and cramped cities, there is often a lack of space for kitchen gardens. But children can grow tomatoes, chillies, coriander, capsicum and more in balconies and terraces. And use earthworm poo, too!

Satyendra Verma is the first farmer to take up cultivation of strawberries in Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh and script a story of success. He not only trains other farmers in growing strawberries, a fairly new crop in the state, but also provides employment to 40 farm labourers, most of whom are women.

A farmer in Kanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, has successfully grown water chestnuts on land that was stripped of its top 5-6 feet of soil. Madan Kahar is now the talk of not just his village, but several other neighbouring villages.

India is the leading producer and consumer of cumin (jeera) in the world with Gujarat and Rajasthan contributing more than 90% of the domestic production. However, changing climate and rising risks are making jeera farmers switch to other crops. Both acreage under cumin and production of the spice has dropped leading to a fall in supply. This has sent the cumin prices soaring and are at present at a 70-year high. Read on to know more.

Papaya cultivation in Barabanki and Sitapur districts of Uttar Pradesh takes a hit as the ringspot virus affects the crop. The yield has been only one fourth of what it should be, complain the farmers. They blame changing climate for such large scale losses.

When Savita Murmu set up a saplings nursery with the support of the non-profit Transform Rural India Foundation, she exchanged a life of struggle and poverty for one of profit and well being for herself and her family.