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March 21, 2018

Naga tribes in Jalukie Valley have shifted from jhum cultivation to wadi plantations of pineapple, mango, etc. (Photo by Rongmei Baptist Association)

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Social entrepreneur sets Naga tribes on path of progress

In an underdeveloped part of Jalukie Valley in Nagaland, the church-based Rongmei Baptist Association has gone beyond call of faith to help tribal communities uplift themselves through development interventions

March 19, 2018

A woman farmer with the strawberries she picked in a farm in Chilhaki Bigha village. (Photo by Mohd Imran Khan)

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Bihar farmers taste success with sweet strawberries

Farmers in an Aurangabad village prone to drought and Maoist insurgency have defied scientific opinion, and cultivated strawberries successfully, boosting the local economy

March 16, 2018

Farmers working in a vegetable farm in Ompora in Budgam ensure availability of fresh produce across the state in winter. (Photo by Athar Parvaiz)

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Kashmir’s vegetable farmers reap rich dividends

Bringing more land under vegetable cultivation and using technology, farmers in Kashmir have made fresh produce available for the state in winter and for other states in summer

March 14, 2018

Farmers near Nashik in Maharashtra on their way to the market with their tomato harvest. (Photo by Michael Foley)

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There’s more to horticulture than tomatoes, onions and potatoes

While the priority given to tomato, onion and potato (TOP) farmers by the Prime Minister is a welcome move, special attention must be given to smallholder vegetable growers, since horticulture provides a nutrition and income buffer to the rural poor