Monthly Archives: December 2019


Homegrown Technologies Help Farmers Boost Yields and Incomes

The means to help farmers improve their livelihoods are not developed in offices and laboratories alone, but rather on the fields with indigenous innovative ideas and implements, as was demonstrated during a recent Farmers’ Field Day in Manhalli village, Bidar district, Karnataka. Project Bhoosamruddhi conducted a field visit to update […]

Farmer Bhimrao Mulgi (holding trays) interacts with the visitors. Photo: S Punna, ICRISAT

The DWAT unit in operation

CSR initiative to improve rural wastewater management – RECL sets up wastewater treatment plant in Wanaparthy

The Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (RECL) in Hyderabad, has supported the ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics)-led consortium to develop “Model Sites of Learning” in Wanaparthy district of Telangana State with the aim of sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and improving livelihoods of the rural poor in vulnerable […]


Newborn Calf Holds Out Hope for Bundelkhand’s Cattle

A female calf birthed recently in a north Indian village, following sexed sorted insemination, could herald the end of rampant abandoning of livestock in the region, thereby increasing farmers’ returns. The calf, born in Nathupura village of Mahoba district in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh state, is a result […]

Farmer Malti Pateria with the young calf. Photo: BISLD.