Stories of Change
Farmers benefit from market management – a case of Collective Action
Vast stretches of maize is a common sight in the drylands of Perambalur district of Tamil Nadu. In a region that was traditionally growing cotton and groundnut, various factors have combined to lead farmers to maize cultivation. Cotton cultivation has become less...
Changing farming practices- PTD shows the way
The livelihoods in Manbarai village in Trichy district are predominantly dependant on dryland agriculture. The village, on an average, receives an annual rainfall of 600 mm. The dry land crops in the region are groundnut and fodder sorghum. Crops like lab lab, cowpea...
Alternative farming practices for remunerative dryland cotton
Cotton is the major cash crop in Gadhar, a village in Raichur Taluk, having 450 households. Most of the farmers in the village depend on drylands for their livelihood, while a few have irrigation from open wells. Mono cropping has been in practice not only in this...
Vermicomposting brings more yields and returns
This is the case of a small farmer who chose to be different from the typical resource-poor farmers struggling to make a living in the degraded drylands. His deep ‘love for life’ has not only earned him a decent living, but more importantly, it has inspired many poor...
Alternative farming practices from cotton to sorghum
Nagalapur in Raichur district is a small village consisting of 140 households. Majority of them are small farmers belonging to Lingayat, SC and Madivala communities. Situated at the tail end area of the Tungabhadra canal project, some have access to irrigation....
Women’s group install Dalmill for processing Redgram
In working areas of Telangana, AME Foundation helped farmers harvest better yields of Redgram through the Farmer Field School approach. FFS farmers harvested on an average 6.5 q/ac of Redgram while it was 4.5 q/ac through traditional method by adopting LEISA...