George Rajashekaran
George Rajashekaran is a journalist based at Salem, Tamil Nadu.
December 17, 2018
Educated youth such as Srinivasan and Sudeesh have taken up hi-tech farming, cultivating crops under controlled conditions using Israeli technology (Photo by George Rajashekaran)
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Educated Tamil youth boost growth with hi-tech farming

Returning to their roots, educated youth in Tamil Nadu have boosted agricultural production manifold by modernizing their ancestral land, and by using Israeli farming technology

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October 29, 2018
Villager elders inspecting a diversion-based irrigation system in Sinnar (Photo by Yuva Mitra)
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Sinnar farmers breathe life back into irrigated farming

By collectively reviving a colonial-era irrigation system, farmers in 19 villages of Sinnar in Maharashtra have transformed a water-starved area into productive and prosperous farmlands

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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

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February 2, 2018
Women farmers in Solapur are field-trained in growing a wide variety of crops. (Photo by Swayam Shikshan Prayog)
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Solapur farmers turn lives around with crop diversification

With recurrent droughts, landowning marginal farmers of Solapur in Maharashtra were forced to work as wage laborers till they switched from cash crops to horticulture and millets for an economic turnaround

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